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Aquālian
Akwālinos
[akʷälɪnɔs]*
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 27 August 2018
Language type A priori
Species Human/humanoid
About Aquālian Aquālian is the language of Aquālos, the largest superpower country in my constructed world Luxma.

It started as being "latin, but Wrong" and has (d)evolved from there.

To keep the Latin-y flavor and let me be weird in other regards, pronunciation and stress is essentially just Classical Latin. Really basic words and suffixes also tend to be similar to their latin counterparts, but I try to keep my overall vocabulary more original.

Word order is arbitrarily based on the "emphasis" in the sentence, but falls back on being VSO (since the action taking place is generally the "interesting" part of the sentence). Nouns are kinda weird. They're not all in conworkshop, but there is twenty-six (!) noun cases. Postpositions existed in the proto-language but now they don't (except sometimes in poetry, song, and extremely polite speech). I hate myself.

Verbs are boring. They're like Spanish but without the subjunctive. Sorry.
Sample of Aquālian[view] Kenesto vīeus felīa edditrum.

My cat ate that.
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Latest vocabulary
vōlisvwant
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Language family relationships
Language treeAquālian
 ⤷ Archaic Aquālian
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[view] About AquālianLanguages derived from and spoken by the people of Aquālos on the planet of Luxma.
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
DentalAlveolarPost-
Alveolar
PalatalVelar
Nasal m     n      
Plosive p b     t d     k kʷ g gʷ
Fricative   f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ   x
Lateral approximant       l      
Approximant       ɹ   j  
VowelsFrontNear-
front
CentralNear-
back
Back
Close i       u
Near-close   ɪ   ʊ  
Close-mid e       o
Open-mid ɛ       ɔ
Open a   ä    
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Aquālian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AquālianOrthography [edit]
Aa/a/Āā/ä/Bb/b/Dd/d/DH dh/ð/Ēē/e/Ee/ɛ/Ff/f/Gg/g/GW gw/gʷ/Īī/i/
Ii/ɪ/Kk/k/KW kw/kʷ/Ll/l/Mm/m/Nn/n/Ōō/o/Oo/ɔ/Pp/p/Rr/ɹ/Ss/s/
SH sh/ʃ/Tt/t/TH th/θ/Ūū/u/Uu/ʊ/Vv/v/Xx/x/Yy/j/Zz/z/ZH zh/ʒ/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
    Typological information for Aquālian

    Base counting systemVigesimal (20)
    Definite articleWord for 'this/that' used
    GendersMasculine/Feminine/Neuter
    Morphological typologyFusional
    Number of nominal casesEight cases or more

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