Chthonic [CHTHC]
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Chthonic
llinpapa xzənaes [ɬimpa̰pà̰ xθə̀nɛs]
Chthonicllinpapa xzənaes [ɬimpa̰pà̰ xθə̀nɛs]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Chthonic
Demon language using musical terms to talk about phonetic features :)
Sample of Chthonic[view] ǃəspaell tuiswyryr tsi seisaoǁuynənə.
A table for two people and one horse, please.[view all texts]
A table for two people and one horse, please.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||||
| Nasal | [m]1 | n | [ɳ]2 | [ɴ]3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | ʈ | k | [q]4 | ʔ | |||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]5 | f | θ | s | ɕ | x | [χ]6 | ʁ7 | ɦ | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | ʈ͡ʂ | t͡ɕ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ɭ | ʟ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | β̞ | ɻ | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Click | ǀ | ǃ | ‼ | ǁ | ||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /k/ when prenasalised
- allophone of /f/ when prenasalised
- allophone of /x/ when prenasalised
- /ʁ~ʀ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i | y | ɨ1 | u | ||||
| Near-close | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ2 | ɔ | ||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ɒ | |||||
- /ɨ~ɪ/
- /ɛ~æ/
Syllable StructureMax syllable is CCCVC, CVC is most common. Vowels cannot appear next to each other without being separated by ʔ.
Stress informationStress always falls on a syllable with marked pitch if present. Otherwise, it falls on the final syllable.
OtherChthonic has two extra vowel features: pitch and timbre. There are low, mid, and high pitches, and hum, whisper, and growl timbres. They are represented as à (low pitch), a (mid pitch), á (high pitch), a (hum timbre), a̤ (whisper timbre), and a̰ (growl timbre). Thus, all possible combinations are: à a á à̤ a̤ á̤ à̰ a̰ á̰
Humans speaking Chthonic can approximate timbre with modal, breathy, and creaky voices respectively.
Humans speaking Chthonic can approximate timbre with modal, breathy, and creaky voices respectively.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Chthonic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ChthonicOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| a/a/ | ae/ɛ/1 | ao/ɑ/ | c/ɕ/ | e/e/ | f/f/, [ɸ]2 | g/ʁ/3 | gl/ʟ/ | h/ɦ/ |
| i/i/, /j/ | iu/ɨ/4 | k/k/, [q]5 | l/ɭ/ | ll/ɬ/ | n/n/, [ɳ], [m], [ɴ] | o/o/ | oa/ɒ/ | p/p/ |
| r/ɻ/ | s/s/ | t/ʈ/ | tc/t͡ɕ/ | ts/ʈ͡ʂ/ | u/u/ | ua/ɔ/ | uy/ʊ/ | v/β̞/ |
| w/w/ | x/x/, [χ]6 | y/y/ | z/θ/ | ə/ə/ | ǀ/ǀ/ | ǁ/ǁ/ | ǃ/ǃ/ | ‼/‼/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- /ɛ~æ/
- allophone of /f/ when prenasalised
- /ʁ~ʀ/
- /ɨ~ɪ/
- allophone of /k/ when prenasalised
- allophone of /x/ when prenasalised
Additional NotesStandard Chthonic isn’t written with pitch or timbre markers, but they are always included in dictionaries/grammars.
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