Old Adzamian [AZM]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Adzamian
Adzamian was spoken from about 100 BCE to 700 CE, as the official language of the Adzamic Empire. It was polysynthetic, and its primary verbal inflection was the locative - not tense. (In fact, there is no morphological tense at all.) Its word order reflects the animacy hierarchy. It also features front/back vowel harmony.
This language previously had the code ADZ, which is now used by its own daughter language
Adzamasi. Hopefully all links now point towards the correct languages.
WIP on script remake
This language previously had the code ADZ, which is now used by its own daughter language
Adzamasi. Hopefully all links now point towards the correct languages.WIP on script remake
Sample of Old Adzamian[view] Aŧak baajensan hibeyast bede illencciinik leedkkiijitsot.
We will not destroy the tower even if we are crazy.[view all texts]
We will not destroy the tower even if we are crazy.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeAdzo-Neviric
⤷ Proto-Adzo-Neviran
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Proto-Adzamic
⤷ Early Old Adzamian
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Old Adzamian
⤷ Proto-Adzo-Neviran
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Proto-Adzamic⤷ Early Old Adzamian
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Old Adzamian[view] About Adzo-NeviricA family spoken across northeastern Baredina, and part of the larger Ekuo-Lahiri family, it originated around northeastern Tabiqa before spreading throughout the Ekuosian desert and south along the easter Baredinan coast. Its two main branches were s...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | b | t tʼ | d | c cʼ | ɟ | k kʼ | q qʼ | (ʔ) | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | [f]1 | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | [ɣ]2 | χ | [ʁ]3 | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /v/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /χ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | y: | u: | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e: | ø: | o: | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ʌ | |||||||
| Near-open | ɐ | |||||||||
| Open | ɑ: | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ei | æo | eə | æe |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Adzamian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Old AdzamianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a a /ɐ/ | ā aa /ɑ:/ | b b /b/ | c c /c/ | ċ cc /cʼ/ | d d /d/ | e e /ɛ/ | ē ee /e:/ | h h /h/ | i i /ɪ/ |
| ī ii /i:/ | j j /ɟ/ | k k /k/ | ḳ kk /kʼ/ | l l /l/ | m m /m/ | n n /n/ | ö ö /œ/ | o o /ʌ/ | ô öö /ø:/ |
| ō oo /o:/ | q q /q/ | ɋ qq /qʼ/ | r r /χ/, [ʁ] | š š /ʃ/ | s s /s/ | t t /t/ | ṫ tt /tʼ/ | u u /ʊ/ | ü ü /ʏ/ |
| û üü /y:/ | ū uu /u:/ | v v /v/, [f] | w w /w/ | x x /x/, [ɣ] | y y /j/ | ž ž /ʒ/ | š z /z/ | ð đ /ð/ | þ ŧ /θ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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