Caryatic [CRT]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Caryatic
Caryatic was dreamed up by Iustinus in between taking notes for Andrew Sihler's "Comparative Grammar: Indo-European Phonology," in fall of 1997. It was first committed to computer on Dec. 11 of that year. Work continued on and off until late 2003. The language remained largely dormant until 2013, when work resumed, albeit at an absurdly glacial pace.
The original inspiration was to "reverse engineer" the reconstruction of Indo-European from its daughter languages—which felt like an amazing new idea at the time, but which I now know as one of the most common sorts of conlang. I had actually attempted this a couple times before (ðɛ̃ʃwa ɛ̃nɛ̃nõta, "Indo-Tonal), but never with the depth of knowledge I had acquired from my graduate-level Historical Linguistics classes.
Like most of my conlangs, it draws much inspiration from the classical languages, but has broader influence from the rest of the Indo-European family. The declension system was clearly modeled on Gothic, and the three-vowel system was at least partially influenced by Sanskrit's propensity for the phoneme /a/. The lack of voiced stops, on the other hand, was apparently inspired by Etruscan.
The original inspiration was to "reverse engineer" the reconstruction of Indo-European from its daughter languages—which felt like an amazing new idea at the time, but which I now know as one of the most common sorts of conlang. I had actually attempted this a couple times before (ðɛ̃ʃwa ɛ̃nɛ̃nõta, "Indo-Tonal), but never with the depth of knowledge I had acquired from my graduate-level Historical Linguistics classes.
Like most of my conlangs, it draws much inspiration from the classical languages, but has broader influence from the rest of the Indo-European family. The declension system was clearly modeled on Gothic, and the three-vowel system was at least partially influenced by Sanskrit's propensity for the phoneme /a/. The lack of voiced stops, on the other hand, was apparently inspired by Etruscan.
Language family relationships
Language treeIndo-European
⤷ Proto-Indo-European
⤷ Samasian
⤷ Batæo-Caryatic
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Caryatic
⤷ Proto-Indo-European
⤷ Samasian
⤷ Batæo-Caryatic
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Caryatic[view] About Indo-EuropeanThis family tree includes only the main branches and the branches that are too small to be shown separately. See separate main branches for further detail.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
| Nasal | m [m̬]1 | n [n̥]2 | [ŋ]3 [ŋ̥]4 | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | t tʰ | k kʰ | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | [β]5 | f | [v]6 | s | [z]7 | x | [ɣ]8 | [ɦ]9 | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ɫ [ɫ̥]10 | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | rʲ [r̥ʲ]11 | [ʀʲ]12 [ʀ̥ʲ]13 | ||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /ɸ/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /x/
- used in hiatus, i.e. to break up vowels that do not form diphthongs, allophone of //
- allophone of /ɫ̥/
- allophone of /rʲ/
- allophone of /rʲ/
- allophone of /rʲ/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||
| Open | a | ɑ: | ||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Caryatic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| CaryaticOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Āā/ɑ:/ | Bb/p/, /p/ | Dd/t/, /t/ | Ff/f/, [v] | Gg/k/, /k/ | Hh/x/, [ɣ] | Ii/j/, /i/ | Īī/i:/ | Kk/kʰ/ | Ll/ɫ/, [ɫ̥] |
| Mm/m/, [m̬], [ŋ], [n] | Nn/n/, [ŋ̥], [m], [n̥] | Pp/pʰ/ | Rr/rʲ/, [ʀʲ], [r̥ʲ], [ʀ̥ʲ] | Ss/s/, [z] | Tt/tʰ/ | Uu/u/, /w/ | Ūū/u:/ | Vv/ɸ/, [β] | Yy/j/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
