Ábḫanni [ABN]
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Ábḫanni
Ábḫanni [ˈáβ.xɐn.ni]
ÁbḫanniÁbḫanni [ˈáβ.xɐn.ni]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ábḫanni
Ábḫanni is an a priori artlang which has been under intermittent construction since late 2017 and has survived numerous overhauls, some relatively minor and others nearly complete.
Some of its distinctive features are:
The two driving forces behind this language are (in order) aesthetics and naturalism. It is a diachronic conlang.
Some of its distinctive features are:
- A small, rather uneven and fricative-heavy consonant inventory and a small i ɔ e ä vowel system;
- Verbs which are heavily marked for aspect and mood but which completely lack overt tense marking;
- Heavy use of non-concatenative morphology, such as stress movement, ablaut, and stem alterations;
- A animate-inanimate noun class distinction which is marked by vowel harmony, in which both i and ä are neutral, and which can also be though of as a sort of derivational morphology;
- Roots which can easily transform between nouns, adjective, and stative verbs;
- Ergative-absolutive alignment in nouns, fluid-S alignment in pronouns;
- Word order determined by pragmatics.
The two driving forces behind this language are (in order) aesthetics and naturalism. It is a diachronic conlang.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m [mʷ]1 | n̪ | ȵ | [ŋ]2 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | [p]3 [pʷ]4 | b [bʷ]5 [ᵐbʷ]6 [ᵐb]7 | t̪ | [ⁿd̪]8 | k | [ᵑg]9 | ʔ10 | |||||||||
| Fricative | β [βʷ]11 | θ̠ | ð12 | ɕ | ʑ | x | [ʕ]13 | ɦ | ||||||||
| Lateral flap | ɺ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]14 | |||||||||||||||
- Before stressed /o/
- Before /k/, allophone of /n̪/
- Geminated, allophone of /β/
- Geminated before stressed /o/, allophone of /β/
- Following /Vm/ and preceding stressed /o/, allophone of /β/
- Before stressed /o/, word-initial allophone of /mβ/ cluster
- Word-initial allophone of the cluster /mβ/
- Word-initial allophone of /nt/
- Word-initial allophone of the cluster /nk/
- Represented by a diacritic on preceding vowel
- Before stressed /o/, allophone of /β/
- Very uncommon
- Word-final, allophone of /ɦ/
- Geminated, allophone of /ɺ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: î: ǐ: í | |||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | |||||||
| Close-mid | e é | [o]2 | ||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]3 | [ʌ̞]4 | ɔ ɔ́ | |||||
| Near-open | [ɐ]5 | |||||||
| Open | ä ä: ä̂: ä̌: ä́ | [ɑ]6 [ɑ́]7 | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | [ɑɪ]8 [ɑɪ́]9 | ɑɔ ɑɔ: ɑɔ̂: ɑɔ̌: ɑɔ́ | aɪ aɪ: aɪ̂: aɪ̌: aɪ́ | [ɞɪ]10 | ɔɪ ɔɪ́ | [ɐɪ]11 | eɪ: eɪ̂: eɪ̌: | ɔʊ: ɔʊ̂: ɔʊ̌: | eʊ̈: eʊ̈̂: eʊ̈̌: | [ʌɪ̞]12 |
| [ʌɔ̞]13 |
- Unstressed before /x/, allophone of /i/
- Unstressed before a labial, allophone of /ɔ/
- Unstressed before a dental or alveolar consonant, allophone of /e/
- Unstressed after /ɔ/, allophone of /ä/
- Unstressed, allophone of /ä/
- After /ɔ/, allophone of /ä/
- Following /ɔ/, allophone of /ä́/
- Following /ɔ/, allophone of /aɪ/
- Following /ɔ/, allophone of /aɪ́/
- Unstressed, allophone of /ɔɪ/
- Unstressed, allophone of /aɪ/
- Unstressed after /ɔ/, allophone of /aɪ/
- Unstressed, allophone of /ɑɔ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ábḫanni. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ÁbḫanniOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ä/, [ɑ]1 | Áá/ä́/ | Bb/β/ | Dd/ð/2 | Ee/e/ | Éé/é/ | Ḫḫ/x/ | Hh/ɦ/ | Íí/í/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ȵ/ |
| Kk/k/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Óó/ɔ́/ | Pp[p]3 | Rr/ɺ/ | Ss/ɕ/ | Tt/t̪/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/θ̠/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- After /ɔ/
- Very uncommon
- Geminated
