Berkene [BKN]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
Language family relationships
Language treeVarkanic
⤷ Proto-Varkanic
⤷ Proto-Henic
⤷ Old Henic
⤷ Early Berkene
⤷ Berkene
⤷ Proto-Varkanic
⤷ Proto-Henic
⤷ Old Henic
⤷ Early Berkene
⤷ Berkene
[view] About VarkanicOne of the primary language families of the Dragon Sea on Sahar, this is [read: was] the family spoken by the Varkanic people, native to Uzil and Syoranka.
The Proto-West-Varkanic branch is the largest and most well-known, distinguished by its swi...
The Proto-West-Varkanic branch is the largest and most well-known, distinguished by its swi...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | x | ɣ | h | |||||||
Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | u | ||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||
Mid | ə |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Berkene. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
BerkeneOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
a Aa /o/ | b Bb /b/ | k Cc /k/ | x Çç /t͡s/ | ǩ CH ch /x/ | d Dd /d/ | ð DH dh /ð/ | ë Ëë /e/ | ē Ęę /e/ | e Ee /e/ | f Ff /f/ | g Gg /g/ |
gh GH gh /ɣ/ | h Hh /h/ | i Ii /i/ | q Kk /k/ | l Ll /l/ | m Mm /m/ | ŋ MH mh /ŋ/ | n Nn /n/ | ń NH nh /ŋ/ | o Oo /o/ | p Pp /p/ | ʔ Qq /ʔ/ |
r Rr /r/ | s Ss /s/ | t Tt /t/ | θ TH th /θ/ | u Uu /u/ | y Ųų /u/ | v Vv /v/ | w Ww /w/ | ĵ Yy /i/, /j/ | z Zz /z/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |