Zarin [ZARIN]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersZarin is spoken by a population of around 36,000,000,000 in OĶSPY.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Zarin
Zarin is the language of human descendants, who have traveled to a planet in the Andromeda galaxy.
Related to Earth languages, mostly Indo-European, but mutated beyond recognition.
Related to Earth languages, mostly Indo-European, but mutated beyond recognition.
Sample of Zarin[view] kuuen staja ensooge / zu tilmaky laaost qologne / uleete ganast vudeao / zu daenyky nozonogne etu paato.
When the skies turn grey / And the rivers stop flowing / Go seek the truth / And the gods will show the way.[view all texts]
When the skies turn grey / And the rivers stop flowing / Go seek the truth / And the gods will show the way.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k k: | g g: | ʔ2 | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | [h]3 | ɦ | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l [l̩]4 | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ [ɾ̩]5 | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | ks |
- Allophone of [n], before velars
- Automatically an onset, if no other phoneme is present
- Allophone of [ɦ], before and after voiceless consonants
- Allophone of [l]
- Allophone of [ɾ]
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ɔ ɔ: | ||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | aɔ aɔ: | ɔu ɔu: | iɛ iɛ: | ɔa | ɪa ɪa: | iu | ɪaɔ | ɪau | aɛ aɛ: | ia ia: |
| iɔ | au au: | ɪaɛ | ɛɔ | ɔi | ɛi | ua | ɛɪ | ɔɛ ɔɛ: | ɛa | |
| ɪai: |
Syllable StructureCCCV(l,r)CC
Stress information- Penultimate
- If a long vowel is present, stress moves onto it.
- If a long consonant is present, stress moves onto it
- If suffixes are present, the stress stays at the original position.
- If a long vowel is present, stress moves onto it.
- If a long consonant is present, stress moves onto it
- If suffixes are present, the stress stays at the original position.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Zarin. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ZarinOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| a Aa Aa /a/ | t Tt Too /t/ | f Ff Foo /f/ | b Bb Baa /b/ | i Ii Ii /i/ | j Jj Jee /j/ | y Yy Y /ɪ/ | m Mm Maa /m/ | g Gg Gee /g/ | d Dd Dee /d/ | p Pp Pee /p/ |
| u Uu Uu /u/ | w Ww Wee /w/ | e Ee Ee /ɛ/ | c Cc Cee /t͡s/ | h Hh Haa /ɦ/, [h]1 | k Kk Kaa /k/ | l Ll Laa /l/, [l̩]2 | o Oo Oo /ɔ/ | r Rr Ree /ɾ/, [ɾ̩]3 | n Nn Naa /n/, [ŋ]4 | z Zz Zii /z/ |
| s Ss Sii /s/ | š Ķķ Ķii /ks/ | v Vv Vee /v/ | q Qq Qaa /ɣ/ | x Xx Xaa /x/ | ž DZ dz Dzii /d͡z/ | ć Ćć Ćee /t͡ʃ/ | ź Źź Źii /ʒ/ | ś Śś Śii /ʃ/ | ř DŹ dź Dźii /d͡ʒ/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
- Allophone of [ɦ], before and after voiceless consonants
- Allophone of [l]
- Allophone of [ɾ]
- Allophone of [n], before velars
