Calantero [CNT]
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Calantero
Calantero [kalantero]
CalanteroCalantero [kalantero]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Calantero
Indo-European language, with centum plosives. Highly conservative nominal declension.
Sample of Calantero[view] Alui humonui ledont semigoque duguntat podidique feront sent. Īmo legudur mentique duit frādērīder alteromo fiuontuque.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[view all texts]
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[edit] [view] Melcalantero (Early Redstonian)Early on, the dialect of Calantero spoken in Calan changed. Declensions were merging, vowels were schwa-ing, stress got moved around, prepositional phrases got used more and cases used less, SVO word ordering. This eventually became its own language (Redstonian)
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k kʷ | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ1 | [ʒ]2 | h | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [j]3 | ʍ | [w]4 | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
- Originally /s/ + /h/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||
| Open | a a: | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Calantero. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 CalanteroOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Āā dleo a /a:/ | Aa a /a/ | Bb ba /b/ | Cc ka /k/ | Dd da /d/ | Ēē dleo e /e:/ | Ee e /e/ | Ff fa /f/ | Gg ga /g/ |
| Hh ha /h/ | HW hw hwa /ʍ/ | Ii i /i/ | Īī dleo i /i:/ | Ll la /l/ | Mm ma /m/ | Nn na /n/ | Ōō dleo o /o:/ | Oo o /o/ |
| Pp pa /p/ | QU qu qua /kʷ/ | Rr ra /r/ | Ss sa /s/ | Tt ta /t/ | Uu u /u/ | Ūū dleo u /u:/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
The Verb
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13-Apr-18 07:59Derivation morphology of Calantero
Describes morphological affixes in detail
05-Feb-18 14:17History of Calantero
How Calantero evolved
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