Cryoidian [COY]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Cryoidian
Cryoidian is the constructed language of the Cryoidian race, which inhabits the country of Cryoidia. It belongs to the Central-Continental language family, and is spoken by 18.9 million native speakers, or a total of around 22 million speakers plus L2. It is a priori language, and takes some influence in sound, grammar, and function from English, Spanish, Hungarian, and Czech, but has a completely new vocabulary.
It has both fusional and agglutinative properties, and has a very high degree of inflection. It contains 7 grammatical cases, and 6 genders (Masculine, Feminine, and Neutral, each split for Animacy and Inanimacy). It also has 4 distinct numbers (singular, 2-4, 5-10, and above 10). Each gender and number (with some exceptions) has their own unique declension patterns. Each gender has 3-4 possible patterns of declination per case. It is one of the most sophisticated languages in it's Conworld. It has a decent degree (around 30%) of mutual intelligibility with Centrean, and less (about 10-15%) with Televek, due to the fact that they are in the same family. It's grammar is considerably simpler than that of Televek, but slightly more difficult than Centrean's.
It has both fusional and agglutinative properties, and has a very high degree of inflection. It contains 7 grammatical cases, and 6 genders (Masculine, Feminine, and Neutral, each split for Animacy and Inanimacy). It also has 4 distinct numbers (singular, 2-4, 5-10, and above 10). Each gender and number (with some exceptions) has their own unique declension patterns. Each gender has 3-4 possible patterns of declination per case. It is one of the most sophisticated languages in it's Conworld. It has a decent degree (around 30%) of mutual intelligibility with Centrean, and less (about 10-15%) with Televek, due to the fact that they are in the same family. It's grammar is considerably simpler than that of Televek, but slightly more difficult than Centrean's.
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Language treeCentreo-Pacific Language Family
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Cryoidian
⤷ Centreo-Pacific Language Family
⤷ Continental Language Family
⤷ Central Continental languages
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Cryoidian[view] About Centreo-Pacific Language FamilyThe Centreo-Pacific Language Family is the group of languages of the continent Centrea. It includes several sub-families, including the Continental Language Family, Multivex Language Family, and Endemic Language Family, all of which further have sub...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | k | g | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ks | je |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Near-open | ɐ | |||||||
| Open | a | ɒ | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | eɪ | aɪ | aʊ̈ | aʊ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Cryoidian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| CryoidianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ää/ɐ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Ćć/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ëë/ɛ/ | Éé/je/ |
| Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Ïï/ɪ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/ | Ńń/ɲ/ | Oo/o/ | Öö/ɒ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Śś/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ |
| T́ t́/c/ | Uu/u/ | Üü/ɔ/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ks/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | Źź/ʒ/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
