Alternian [ALTE]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersAlternian is spoken in Alternia.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Alternian
I'm really just screwing around with concepts for Alternian (the language of the trolls in Homestuck) as an actual language rather than an alphabet and backwards typing.
Sample of AlternianCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n͇ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | (b)1 | t | k | g | |||||||||||
| Fricative | (β) | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | h | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ɭ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | [ʀ̥]2 | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | dʒ |
- allophone of /p/
- used as stress, allophone of /h/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i | |||||||
| Near-close | ʊ | |||||||
| Mid | ə | o̞ | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | [ʌ]1 | ɔ | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ʌi |
- allophone of /ə/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Alternian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AlternianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ə/ | AY ay/ʌi/ | DGE dge/dʒ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/ɭ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n͇/ |
| Oo/o̞/, /ɔ/ | OO oo/ʊ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Vv/β/1 | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- loan words only
