Rhanakya [RHN]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Rhanakya
Rhanakya is the only remaining North Zalintang language, and is spoken in Rhana, which was the northernmost province of the Akali Empire and forms a buffer between the area of the former Akali Empire and the northern Pasan peoples (which, in turn, form a buffer between Akali lands and Emisian lands).
Consonants: 47 (Including palatal/plain distinction)
Vowels: 8 (4 short, 4 long; no native diphthongs)
Gender: Human, Nonhuman
Number: SGSingular (number)
one countable entity/DUDual (number)
two/PLPlural (number)
more than one/few
1st inclusive/exclusive distinction
Agglutinative
Mood/evidentiality on conjugated verb
Auxiliary verbs for progressive, perfect, interrogative, future, and negative
Distinct front/back declensions/conjugations (even within noun genders) from Proto-Hills vowel harmony.
In the early post-Akali years, Rhana was conquered by the Pasans, and held under brutal occupation for over a century. It keeps a notably large military, and many of its politicians are pushing to invade and destroy the Pasans, with backing from the Akateli, Ginai, and Nomanli.
Consonants: 47 (Including palatal/plain distinction)
Vowels: 8 (4 short, 4 long; no native diphthongs)
Gender: Human, Nonhuman
Number: SGSingular (number)
one countable entity/DUDual (number)
two/PLPlural (number)
more than one/few
1st inclusive/exclusive distinction
Agglutinative
Mood/evidentiality on conjugated verb
Auxiliary verbs for progressive, perfect, interrogative, future, and negative
Distinct front/back declensions/conjugations (even within noun genders) from Proto-Hills vowel harmony.
In the early post-Akali years, Rhana was conquered by the Pasans, and held under brutal occupation for over a century. It keeps a notably large military, and many of its politicians are pushing to invade and destroy the Pasans, with backing from the Akateli, Ginai, and Nomanli.
Language family relationships
Language treeZalintang
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Proto-Zalintang
⤷ North Zalintang
⤷ Hills
⤷ Old Rhanakya
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Rhanakya
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Proto-Zalintang⤷ North Zalintang
⤷ Hills
⤷ Old Rhanakya
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Rhanakya[view] About ZalintangMajor pre-Akalix languages of the West, still spoken in Rhana, Ginai, and large swaths of the Akalic South. Connected to the Gobi-Raimak languages in the Lintang-Raimak macrofamily.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ | n nʲ | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ pʼʲ pʲ | t tʼ tʼʲ tʲ | c cʼ | k kʼ | q qʼ | |||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f fʲ | v vʲ | θ θʲ | ð ðʲ | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ʂ | ʐ | ɕ | ʑ | ç | ʝ | x | ɣ | χ | ʁ | ||||
| Lateral approximant | l lʲ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||
| Close-mid | [e]1 [e:]2 | [o]3 [o:]4 | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | [ɔ]5 [ɔ:]6 | ||
| Open | ɑ ɑ: | |||
- By uvulars, allophone of /i/
- By uvulars, allophone of /i:/
- By uvulars, allophone of /u/
- By uvulars, allophone of /u:/
- Free variation, allophone of /ɑ/
- Free variation, allophone of /ɑ:/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Rhanakya. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| RhanakyaOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/, [ɔ]1 | Áá/ɑ:/ | AA aa[ɔ:]2 | Ee/ɛ/ | Éé/ɛ:/ | Ff/f/ | FY fy/fʲ/ | Ǧǧ/ɣ/ | ǦY ǧy/ʝ/ | Ii/i/, [e]3 | Íí/i:/ |
| II ii[e:]4 | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | KY ky/c/ | Ll/l/ | LY ly/lʲ/ | Mm/m/ | MY my/mʲ/ | Nn/n/ | NY ny/nʲ/ | Pp/p/ |
| PY py/pʲ/ | Qq/q/ | QY qy/c/ | Rr/ʁ/ | RY ry/ʝ/ | Ss/s/ | Šš/ʂ/ | SY sy/ʃ/ | ŠY šy/ɕ/ | Tt/t/ | TY ty/tʲ/ |
| Úú/u:/ | Uu/u/, [o]5 | UU uu[o:]6 | Vv/v/ | VY vy/vʲ/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Ẋẋ/χ/ | XY xy/ç/ | ẊY ẋy/ç/ | Žž/ʐ/ |
| Zz/z/ | ZY zy/ʒ/ | ŽY žy/ʑ/ | Ðð/ð/ | ÐY ðy/ðʲ/ | Þþ/θ/ | ÞY þy/θʲ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | ŊY ŋy/ɲ/ | Ƙƙ/kʼ/ | ƘY ƙy/cʼ/ |
| Ƥƥ/pʼ/ | ƤY ƥy/pʼʲ/ | Ƭƭ/tʼ/ | ƬY ƭy/tʼʲ/ | ʠ/qʼ/ | ʠY ʠy/cʼ/ | |||||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
- Free variation
- Free variation
- By uvulars
- By uvulars
- By uvulars
- By uvulars
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