Cebridan [CBR]
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Language type
Not specified
Species
Human/humanoid
About Cebridan
Cebridan is agglutinative language with simple verb morphology and average phonetic inventory. Cebridan is spoken in great swamps of the Cebri. Language inspired by Cornish (especially verb morphology), Breton, Shelta and some native american languages.
Important features:
• Conjugation of articles and nouns.
• 7 cases.
• No grammatical number.
• Ejective stops.
• Primitive verb morphology.
• Small adverb inventory.
• Beer and potatoes.
• Morphological causatives
Important features:
• Conjugation of articles and nouns.
• 7 cases.
• No grammatical number.
• Ejective stops.
• Primitive verb morphology.
• Small adverb inventory.
• Beer and potatoes.
• Morphological causatives
Sample of Cebridan[view] Ett ēdu benōcc eyr oye cwimoy ōdh ātot, nān ett eyttū celq ōdh tir ātot ōba ōdh oba sebot.
I would not lay down my life for a brother, but I'd gladly do for two brothers or eight cousins.[view all texts]
I would not lay down my life for a brother, but I'd gladly do for two brothers or eight cousins.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ɲ]1 | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | [p]2 | b | [t̪]3 | [d̪]4 | t tʼ | d | k kʼ | g | q qʼ | |||||||||
Fricative | θ | ð | s | [z]5 | ʃ | [ʒ]6 | χ | [h]7 | ||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | [ʎ]8 | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
Trill | r [r̥]9 |
Blends | nw | kw | gw | mw |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /χ/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /r/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||||
Open-mid | [ɛ]3 | [ɔ]4 | ||||||||
Open | a a: |
Polyphthongs | aɪ | ɛɪ | oɪ | ɛʊ | aʊ |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Cebridan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
CebridanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Āā/a:/ | Aa/a/ | AW aw/aʊ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | CC cc/kʼ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ēē/e:/ | EW ew/ɛʊ/ | Gg/g/ |
Īī/i:/ | Ii/i/ | Ll/l/ | LH lh/ɬ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Ōō/o:/ | OY oy/oɪ/ | Qq/q/ | QQ qq/qʼ/ |
Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TT tt/tʼ/ | Uu/u/ | Ūū/u:/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/χ/ | Yy/j/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |