Valar [AUF]
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Registered by
lbrowning on 9 December 2020
Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersValar is spoken by a population of 8,500 in North-Eastern Europe.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Valar
Related to both the Balto-Finnic languages and the Germanic languages, Valar is spoken by the Valaralainen, a race of magically-inclined humans. Very few of them still exist and the language has been reduced to fewer than ten thousand native speakers world-wide.
"Minä olde
"Minä olde
Sample of Valar[view] Saturnha kuunni Titan seetädt satanoin voitaek danna Maailma. Titan näyttt tarvicevak vapaus.
Saturn's moon Titan has one hundred times more oil than earth. Looks like Titan needs some freedom.[view all texts]
Saturn's moon Titan has one hundred times more oil than earth. Looks like Titan needs some freedom.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeUralic
⤷ Proto-Uralic
⤷ Finno-Ugric
⤷ Finno-Khantic
⤷ Finno-Permic
⤷ Finno-Volgaic
⤷ Finno-Saamic
⤷ Finno-Mordvinic
⤷ Finnic
⤷
Valar
⤷ Proto-Uralic
⤷ Finno-Ugric
⤷ Finno-Khantic
⤷ Finno-Permic
⤷ Finno-Volgaic
⤷ Finno-Saamic
⤷ Finno-Mordvinic
⤷ Finnic
⤷
Valar[view] About UralicThe Uralic languages /jʊˈrælɨk/ (sometimes called Uralian /jʊˈreɪliən/ languages) constitute a language family of some three dozen languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian, ...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m m: | n n: | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p p: | [b]2 | t t: | [d]3 | k k: | [g]4 | ||||||||||
| Fricative | [β]5 | [ð]6 | s s: | ʃ | x | [ɣ]7 | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡s: | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l l: | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ʋ]8 | j | w w: | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r r: | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /n:/
- allophone of /p:/
- allophone of /t:/
- allophone of /k:/
- allophone of /p:/
- allophone of /t:/
- allophone of /k:/
- allophone of /w:/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | y y: | u u: | |
| Close-mid | e e: | ø ø: | ɤ | o o: |
| Near-open | æ æ: | |||
| Open | a a: | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Valar. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| ValarOrthography | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AA aa/a:/ | Ää/æ/ | ÄÄ ää/æ:/ | Bb[b] | Cc/t͡s/ | CC cc/t͡s:/ | Dd[d] | Ðð[ð] | Ee/e/ |
| EE ee/e:/ | Ëë/ɤ/ | Gg[g] | Ɣɣ[ɣ] | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | KK kk/k:/ |
| Ll/l/ | LL ll/l:/ | Mm/m/ | MM mm/m:/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ] | NN nn/n:/ | Oo/o/ | OO oo/o:/ | Öö/ø/ | ÖÖ öö/ø:/ |
| Pp/p/ | PP pp/p:/ | Rr/r/ | RR rr/r:/ | Ss/s/ | SS ss/s:/ | Ʃʃ/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TT tt/t:/ | Uu/u/ |
| UU uu/u:/ | Üü/y/ | ÜÜ üü/y:/ | Vv/w/ | VV vv/w:/ | Ʋʋ[ʋ] | Ββ[β] | |||
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||
