Centrean [BAO]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Centrean
Centrean is the constructed language of the Aurorian race, which inhabits the country of Auroria. It belongs to the Central-Continental language family, and is spoken by 3 million native speakers, or a total of around 5 million speakers plus L2. It is a priori language, and takes some influence in sound, grammar, and function from English, Spanish, Hungarian, and Czech, but has a completely new vocabulary.
It has both fusional and agglutinative properties, and has a very high degree of inflection. It contains 7 grammatical cases, and 6 genders (Masculine, Feminine, and Neutral, each split for Animacy and Inanimacy). It also has 3 distinct numbers (singular, 2-4, and 5 and above). Each gender and number (with some exceptions) has their own unique declension patterns. Each gender has 3-4 possible patterns of declination per case. It is one of the most sophisticated languages in it's Conworld. It has a high degree (around 50%) of mutual intelligibility with Televek, due to the fact that they are in the same family, but it's grammar is considerably simpler than that of Televek.
It has both fusional and agglutinative properties, and has a very high degree of inflection. It contains 7 grammatical cases, and 6 genders (Masculine, Feminine, and Neutral, each split for Animacy and Inanimacy). It also has 3 distinct numbers (singular, 2-4, and 5 and above). Each gender and number (with some exceptions) has their own unique declension patterns. Each gender has 3-4 possible patterns of declination per case. It is one of the most sophisticated languages in it's Conworld. It has a high degree (around 50%) of mutual intelligibility with Televek, due to the fact that they are in the same family, but it's grammar is considerably simpler than that of Televek.
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Language family relationships
Language treeCentreo-Pacific Language Family
⤷ Centreo-Pacific Language Family
⤷ Continental Language Family
⤷ Central Continental languages
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Centrean
⤷ Centreo-Pacific Language Family
⤷ Continental Language Family
⤷ Central Continental languages
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Centrean[view] About Centreo-Pacific Language FamilyThe Centreo-Pacific Language Family is the group of languages of the continent Centrea. It includes several sub-families, including the Continental Language Family, Multivex Language Family, and Endemic Language Family, all of which further have sub...
[edit] [view] Common Centrean (Common/Country Centrean)In Common/Country Centrean, the 7th grammar case (Translative) is not used (Nominative is used instead), and Neutral Animate declension patterns are not used, with normal Neutral gender paradigms being used. Some vocabulary and pronunciation may vary regionally, with root words/meanings remaining the same.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | k | g | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ks | jʒ |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Near-open | ɐ | |||||||
| Open | a | ɒ | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ | aʊ | eɪ | aʊ̈ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Centrean. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| CentreanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/ɐ/ | Ää/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Ćć/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ëë/ɛ/ | Éé/jʒ/ |
| Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Ïï/ɪ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/ | Ńń/ɲ/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Öö/ɒ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Śś/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ |
| T́ t́/c/ | Uu/o/ | Üü/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ks/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | Źź/ʒ/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
