Catralian (Undergoing Rework) [CATR]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Catralian (Undergoing Rework)
Cātralus was the language of the Cātran Empire, spanning much of the South-Western and Central Šandula. Its descendants are now spoken in various countries and cities throughout Šandula, and by a very small minority in London. Cātralus, and its descendants, is written with a derivative of the Kaleršan script.
Note: The type of Cātralus represented here is the modern literary dialect.
Features
> Fusionally Polysynthetic
=> Incorporates noun classifiers based on the class of the incorporated noun
> SOV Word Order
> 3 Pronominal Persons
=> 1 (speaker), 2 (listener), & 3 (neither speaker nor listener)
Poly-Personal Agreement
=> Subject & Both Objects
> 4 Grammatical Numbers
=> Singular (one of something), Dual (two of something), Trial (three of something), & Plural (more than three of something)
> 6 Classes
=> G1 (male adult humans), G2 (female adult humans), G3 (kinship, children, pets, and body parts), G4 (undomesticated animals), G5 (fire and water), & G6 (inanimates)
> 2 Tenses & 5 Moods
=> Past & Nonpast
=> Realis, Irrealis, Imperative, Interrogative, & Optative
> Aesthetically inspired by Latin
Note: The type of Cātralus represented here is the modern literary dialect.
Features
> Fusionally Polysynthetic
=> Incorporates noun classifiers based on the class of the incorporated noun
> SOV Word Order
> 3 Pronominal Persons
=> 1 (speaker), 2 (listener), & 3 (neither speaker nor listener)
Poly-Personal Agreement
=> Subject & Both Objects
> 4 Grammatical Numbers
=> Singular (one of something), Dual (two of something), Trial (three of something), & Plural (more than three of something)
> 6 Classes
=> G1 (male adult humans), G2 (female adult humans), G3 (kinship, children, pets, and body parts), G4 (undomesticated animals), G5 (fire and water), & G6 (inanimates)
> 2 Tenses & 5 Moods
=> Past & Nonpast
=> Realis, Irrealis, Imperative, Interrogative, & Optative
> Aesthetically inspired by Latin
Sample of Catralian (Undergoing Rework)[view] Ran Lusārnōs Pēuttpēuttemnōs.
It is said that people dwell here.[view all texts]
It is said that people dwell here.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeCatran
⤷ Proto-Catran
⤷ Catralian (Undergoing Rework)
⤷ Proto-Catran
⤷ Catralian (Undergoing Rework)
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m m̩ | n n̩ | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p p: | b | t t: | d | k k: | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | [v]2 | [ð]3 | s s: | [ɣ]4 | [h]5 | ||||||||||||
Affricate | [t͡ʃ]6 [t͡ʃ:]7 | [d͡ʒ]8 | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
- Before a velar consonant, allophone of /n/
- In between vowels, or in coda position, allophone of /b/
- In between vowels, or in coda position, allophone of /d/
- In between vowels, or in coda position, allophone of /g/
- In coda position after a long vowel, allophone of /s/
- Before front vowels, allophone of /k/
- Before long vowels, allophone of /k:/
- Before front vowels, allophone of /g/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||
Open-mid | [ɛ̃:]1 [ɛ̃]2 | [ɔ̃:]3 [ɔ̃]4 | ||
Near-open | [æ]5 | |||
Open | a a: | [ɑ̃:]6 [ɑ̃]7 |
Polyphthongs | [ən]8 | [əm]9 | ei̯: ei̯ | eu̯: eu̯ | au̯: au̯ | ai̯: ai̯ |
- Before /n/, allophone of /e:/
- Before /n/, allophone of /e/
- Before /n/, allophone of /o:/
- Before /n/, allophone of /o/
- In free variation, allophone of /a/
- Before /n/, allophone of /a:/
- Before /n/, allophone of /a/
- In modern pronunciation, allophone of /n̩/
- In modern pronunciation, allophone of /m̩/
Syllable Structure(F)(C)(L)V(C)
F = A fricative
L = /w/, /l/ or /r/
F = A fricative
L = /w/, /l/ or /r/
Stress informationInitial
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Catralian (Undergoing Rework). This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Catralian (Undergoing Rework)Orthography [edit] | |||||||||
- - // | a a A /a/, [ɑ̃]1, [æ]2 | ā ā A sūttus /a:/, [ɑ̃:]3 | ai ai Ai /ai̯/ | āi āi Ai sūttus /ai̯:/ | au au Au /au̯/ | āu āu Au sūttus /au̯:/ | b b Ba /b/, [v]4 | c c Ca /k/, [t͡ʃ]5 | cc cc Ca sūttus /k:/, [t͡ʃ:]6 |
d d Da /d/, [ð]7 | ē ē E sūttus /e:/, [ɛ̃:]8, [ɔ̃:]9 | e e E /e/, [ɛ̃]10 | ei ei Ei /ei̯/ | ēi ēi Ei sūttus /ei̯:/ | ēu ēu Eu sūttus /eu̯:/ | eu eu Eu /eu̯/ | f f Fa /f/ | g g Ga /g/, [ɣ]11, [d͡ʒ]12 | ī ī I sūttus /i:/ |
i i I /i/ | l l La /l/ | m m Ma /m/, /m̩/, [əm]13 | n n Na /n/, /n̩/, [ən]14, [ŋ]15 | ō ō O sūttus /o:/ | o o O /o/, [ɔ̃]16 | p p Pa /p/ | pp pp Pa sūttus /p:/ | r r Ra /r/ | s s Sa /s/, [h]17 |
ss ss Sa sūttus /s:/ | t t Ta /t/ | tt tt Ta sūttus /t:/ | u u U /u/ | ū ū U sūttus /u:/ | w w Wa /w/ | y y Ya /j/ | |||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- Before /n/
- In free variation
- Before /n/
- In between vowels, or in coda position
- Before front vowels
- Before long vowels
- In between vowels, or in coda position
- Before /n/
- Before /n/
- Before /n/
- In between vowels, or in coda position
- Before front vowels
- In modern pronunciation
- In modern pronunciation
- Before a velar consonant
- Before /n/
- In coda position after a long vowel