Colian [COL]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Colian
Colian is the mother language of the Colian languages, Colese, Dozian, Edievian, and Laendian. Colian had a hefty phonemic inventory and was a highly inflecting, with nouns divided into four classes (animate masculine, animate feminine, inanimate masculine, and inanimate feminine) and verbs conjugating for 3 persons (or 4, depending on how the 3rd person animacy split looked at) and two tenses. It was spoken in the plains of modern-day Romania and up into the Carpathians. By the end of Colian linguistic unity, it had absorbed words from Latin, Old Slavonic, Hungarian, and possibly Dacian.
Colian fractured as the Roman Empire collapsed, and by 1000 CE had formed several unintelligible languages. Most of these have gone extinct due to being absorbed by the speakers of other Colian languages or conversion to speaking Southern Slavic languages.
Colian fractured as the Roman Empire collapsed, and by 1000 CE had formed several unintelligible languages. Most of these have gone extinct due to being absorbed by the speakers of other Colian languages or conversion to speaking Southern Slavic languages.
Sample of Colian[view] no tjíi cenu lǿ nágje ymø sata atettu cábu íýmu
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.[view all texts]
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Colian
Some sound samples of Colian. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
no tjíi cenu lǿ nágje ymø sata atettu cábu íýmu
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Language family relationships
Language treeSoscarian-Colian
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Proto-Colian-Soscarian
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Colian
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Proto-Colian-Soscarian⤷
Proto-Colian⤷
Colian[view] About Soscarian-ColianThe Soscarian-Colian family is named for its two constituent surviving language families, the Soscarian family and Colian family.
Under considerable construction as protolangs are being back-derived.
Under considerable construction as protolangs are being back-derived.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p p: pʲ | b b: bʲ | t̪ t̪: t̪:ʲ t̪ʲ | d̪ d̪: d̪ʲ | k k: kʲ | g g: gʲ | ||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s̪ sʲ | h | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l̪ | |||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | y y: | u u: | |
| Close-mid | e e: | ø ø: | o o: | |
| Open | a a: | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Colian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| ColianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Áá Áá á /a:/ | Aa Aa a /a/ | Bb Bb bi /b/ | Cc Cc ci /k/ | Dd Dd di /d̪/ | Xx Ee e /e/ | Éé Éé é /e:/ | Ff Ff fi /f/ | Gg Gg gi /g/ | Hh Hh hi /h/ |
| Ii Íí í /i:/ | Ee Ii i /i/ | Ll Ll li /l̪/ | Mm Mm mi /m/ | Nn Nn ni /n̪/ | Qq Oo o /o/ | Óó Óó ó /o:/ | Pp Pp pi /p/ | Rr Rr ri /r/ | Ss Ss si /s̪/ |
| Tt Tt ti /t̪/ | Oo Uu u /u/ | Uu Úú ú /u:/ | Vv Vv vi /v/ | Ýý Ýý ý /y:/ | Yy Yy y /y/ | Øø Øø ø /ø/ | Ǿǿ Ǿǿ ǿ /ø:/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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