Avenic [AVEN]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Avenic
Avenic (Avenska) is an a posteriori conlang which draws inspiration from the northern germanic languages icelandic, danish, norwegian, faroese as well as german and some uralic languages such as Finnish and estonian.
Language family relationships
[view] About GermanicThe Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of approximately 500 million people mainly in North America, Oceania, Western and Northern Europe. Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approxima...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ç | ʁ1 | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r3 | |||||||||||||||||||
- usually but not always in the middle and end of words
- Silent when at the end of a word whose penultimate letter is á, å, æ, i, o, u or y
- usually but not always at the beginning of words
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i i:1 | u u:2 | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e e:3 | o o:4 | ||||||
| Mid | ə5 | |||||||
| Open-mid | œ | ʌ | ɔ | |||||
| Near-open | æ æ:6 | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | əi7 | aɪ | ɔɪ8 | au | eɪ | aɪe9 |
- represented by ii
- represented by uu
- represented by ee
- represented by oo
- Sometimes at the end of words
- represented by aa
- represented by ij
- represented by eu
- only used at the end of verbs, æe becomes ǽ
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Avenic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AvenicOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/æ/ | Áá/au/ | Åå/ɔ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/, /ə/1 | Éé/eɪ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
| Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/2, /ʁ/3 | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Úú/ʌ/ | Uu/u/ |
| Vv/v/ | Yy/ɪ/ | Zz/z/ | Ææ/aɪ/ | Ǽǽ/aɪe/4 | Ðð/ð/ | Øø/œ/ | Þþ/θ/ | Ħħ/ç/ | Łł/w/5 | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- Sometimes at the end of words
- usually but not always at the beginning of words
- usually but not always in the middle and end of words
- only used at the end of verbs, æe becomes ǽ
- Silent when at the end of a word whose penultimate letter is á, å, æ, i, o, u or y
