Sono [SNO]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sono
Sono is an agglutinating language with distinct nominal and verbal morphology. It is still completely unknown where this language is or was spoken. It seems that Sono is not related to any known natural or constructed languages. This lack of background information is due to only one person being involved in its research, who is primarily interested in the linguistic aspect ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
Some linguistic facts:
- VSO word order
- no pre/postpositions, but 40 cases
- tries really hard not to be gender-specific → there's the pronoun mo meaning s/he, there's only one word for husband/wife, etc.
- 9 types of modality, 6 aspects, and 3 optional types of evidentiality
- two relative pronouns - one referring to the subject of the main clause, one to the object
- no adjectives and no conjunctions, but some very neat clitics and particles
Some linguistic facts:
- VSO word order
- no pre/postpositions, but 40 cases
- tries really hard not to be gender-specific → there's the pronoun mo meaning s/he, there's only one word for husband/wife, etc.
- 9 types of modality, 6 aspects, and 3 optional types of evidentiality
- two relative pronouns - one referring to the subject of the main clause, one to the object
- no adjectives and no conjunctions, but some very neat clitics and particles
Sample of Sono[view] Teetanu pulexta. Thijeetwu letláranu.
I drink it because it is liquid; if it were solid I would eat it.[view all texts]
I drink it because it is liquid; if it were solid I would eat it.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Sono
Some sound samples of Sono. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Nuhae zohultama shumipra nathanesosh siron ha throménultu penu-n ondatoinosh dale.
Once, when I was seven years old, I sat on a banana and of course, that changed my life.
Once, when I was seven years old, I sat on a banana and of course, that changed my life.
Okupoktiweesh!
You shall not pass !
You shall not pass !
Mojélti larô kæriŝi? Une tas larēntato-n a tökatil.
Can you hear the stars singing? It is the oldest lullaby.
Can you hear the stars singing? It is the oldest lullaby.
Nuhë heltultu këriŝapu-n ëtletam ŝuras þe tan holuþa pekīlultu ruhtulā rōmutam a-n ōbul. Kikwultu pi...
The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveler came along wrapped...
The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveler came along wrapped...
Näthuines ngekul Thee klair jiihinaen.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Nguuroju dimpanosh kräwainish.
My cat is wearing your trousers.
My cat is wearing your trousers.
Language family relationships
[edit] [view] Onjul (Onjul Sono)Onjul (= hill-speech) is spoken in the hilly central part of whatever region Sono is native to.
[edit] [view] Rêtu (Rhetian Sono)Rhetian (/ʀeɛ̯tʏ/) is spoken is the western part of whatever region Sono is native to. Rhetians are usually made fun of for their dialect, but they're still proud of it. After all, they're just normal and very kind people.
Some Rêtu facts:
- Differences in pronounciation: /r/ ~ [ʀ], /u/ ~ [ʏ], diphthongs with /_ɪ̯/ ~ [_ɛ̯]
- No pro-dropping in transitive sentences
- Word-final /ɕ/ ~ [s]
- No masculine & feminine pronouns at all
- Some minor lexicon differences
Some Rêtu facts:
- Differences in pronounciation: /r/ ~ [ʀ], /u/ ~ [ʏ], diphthongs with /_ɪ̯/ ~ [_ɛ̯]
- No pro-dropping in transitive sentences
- Word-final /ɕ/ ~ [s]
- No masculine & feminine pronouns at all
- Some minor lexicon differences
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | ɟ | k | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | θ | s | ɕ | x | h | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | [ɬ]1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | [w]2 | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
- after /t/, allophone of /l/
- after /k/ or between vowels (except before /u/), never at beginning of word, allophone of /ʋ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i: | u: | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||
| Close-mid | o1 o: | |||||||
| Mid | e̞2 | |||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]3 ɛ: | [ɔ]4 | ||||||
| Near-open | æ æ: | |||||||
| Open | ɑ ɑ: | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | ʊɪ | ɑɪ | æɪ | ɑɔ | ɑe | eɪ | ɔɪ |
- if stressed
- if stressed
- if unstressed, allophone of /e̞/
- if unstressed, allophone of /o/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sono. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SonoOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Ää ä /æ/ | Aa a /ɑ/ | ÄÄ ää ää /æ:/ | AA aa aa /ɑ:/ | AE ae ae /ɑe/ | AI ai ai /ɑɪ/ | ÄI äi äi /æɪ/ | AO ao ao /ɑɔ/ | Bb be /b/ | Dd de /d/ |
| Ee e /e̞/1, [ɛ]2 | EE ee ee /ɛ:/ | EI ei ei /eɪ/ | Gg gi /ɟ/ | Hh ho /h/ | Ii i /ɪ/ | II ii ii /i:/ | Jj jo /j/ | Kk ko /k/ | Ll äl /l/, [ɬ]3 |
| Mm äm /m/ | Nn än /n/ | NG ng äng /ŋ/ | Oo o /o/4, [ɔ]5 | OI oi oi /ɔɪ/ | OO oo oo /o:/ | Pp pe /p/ | Rr är /r/ | Ss se /s/ | SH sh she /ɕ/ |
| Tt te /t/ | TH th tho /θ/ | Uu u /ʊ/ | UI ui ui /ʊɪ/ | UU uu uu /u:/ | Ww we /ʋ/, [w]6 | Xx xo /x/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- if stressed
- if unstressed
- after /t/
- if stressed
- if unstressed
- after /k/ or between vowels (except before /u/), never at beginning of word
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