Cowspeak [COW]
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Cowspeak
Mñ-à-bmm [mɲ̩˩.ɑ˩.bm̩:˩]
Mñ-à-bmm [mɲ̩˩.ɑ˩.bm̩:˩]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Cowspeak
One of many languages spoken by domestic cows.
Features:
Features:
- Tonal
- Polysynthetic
- Nouns can be incorporated into verbs, allowing for ridiculously long words
- Extensive use of syllabic nasals, including tonal nasals
- Creaky and breathy voice
- Nareal Fricatives
- Vertical vowel system
- No adjectives (verbs used instead)
- No true first person singular, nor any true second person at all
- Location indicated by verbs
- 10 noun classes: human, animal, plant, tangible, intangible (cows themselves come under animal) with a dangerous, non-dangerous distinction for each
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m m̰ m̰: m̰̩̏: m: m̩̏: m͋ m̩̏ | n n̰ n̰: n̰̩̏: n̰̩̏ n: n̩̏: n͋ n̩̏ | ɲ ɲ̰ ɲ̰: ɲ̰̩̏: ɲ̰̩̏ ɲ: ɲ̩̏: ɲ̩̏ | ŋ ŋ̰ ŋ̰: ŋ̰̩̏: ŋ: ŋ̩̏: ŋ̩̏ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | pʰ | b bʱ | ɢ ɢʱ | ʔ | ||||||||||||
Fricative | β | ɣ | ʁ | ɦ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | ɭ | ʟ | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | w |
Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
Close | y̏ ŷ y᷉ ỳ | [ʉ]1 | [ɯ]2 | [u]3 | ||||
Near-close | [ʊ]4 | |||||||
Close-mid | ø̏ ø̂ ø᷉ ø̀ | [o]5 | ||||||
Mid | ə̏ ə̂ ə᷉ ə̀ | |||||||
Open-mid | [ɛ]6 | [ʌ]7 | ||||||
Open | [a]8 | ɑ̏ ɑ̂ ɑ᷉ ɑ̀ |
- allophone of /ỳ/
- allophone of /ỳ/
- allophone of /ỳ/
- allophone of /ø̀/
- allophone of /ø̀/
- allophone of /ə̀/
- allophone of /ə̀/
- allophone of /ɑ̀/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Cowspeak. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
CowspeakOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Ââ/ɑ̂/ | Aa/ɑ̀/, [a] | Ǎǎ/ɑ᷉/ | Àà/ɑ̏/ | Bb/b/ | Ee/ə̀/, [ɛ], [ʌ] | Êê/ə̂/ | Ěě/ə᷉/ | Èè/ə̏/ | Gg/ɢ/ | Hh/ɦ/ |
Ll/ɭ/ | L̦ l̦/ʟ/ | Ḿḿ/m͋/ | Mm/m/ | Ńń/n͋/ | Nn/n/ | Ññ/ɲ/ | Ǒǒ/ø᷉/ | Oo/ø̀/, [o], [ʊ] | Òò/ø̏/ | Ôô/ø̂/ |
Pp/pʰ/ | Rr/ʁ/ | Ùù/y̏/ | Uu/ỳ/, [ɯ], [ʉ], [u] | Ûû/ŷ/ | Ǔǔ/y᷉/ | Vv/β/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ɣ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | Ɂɂ/ʔ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |