Cathilean [CTL]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Cathilean
Cathilean is ths language spoken in the kingdom of Cathilea in my conworld Igamarea. Its sound is based on Welsh and Finnish, but the orthography is based on Irish. The grammar is as far as I know not based on anything.
Some grammatical features:
Some grammatical features:
- Fluid-S aligniment
- Polysynthetic
- Topic-comment word order
- Head-first
- 17 cases, 4 declensions and 2 numbers, however, only the first and the second declension are declined for number
- A kind of complicated orthography
- Adjectives can be attached directly to the noun they describe, or they can stand alone after. However, in the latter case, it has to agree with the noun in terms of both case and number.
- A LOT of morphophonolgical prosesses, featuring both umlaut and consonant lenition.
- Relative clauses are adjectivized
- Complementizer clauses are nominalized by making a coumpound noun of the object and the nominalized verb, and put it in possession of the subject (e.g. "That I eat an apple" becomes "The apple-eating of mine")
- A LOT of derivational affixes that can be used productively to form new words, or to carry grammatical information:
mMighytonniþadhea
m=
DEFDefinite
"the"= migh-
kind- Ø-
VBZVerbaliser
converts N, ADJ etc into verb- et-
CAPCapability (mood)
'can'.ADJZAdjectiviser (syntax)
turns word into adjective Ø-
VBZVerbaliser
converts N, ADJ etc into verb- o-
NMZNominaliser
makes other word a noun- nneþ-
2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you).POSSPossessive (case)
owns, has- ad-
like.VBZVerbaliser
converts N, ADJ etc into verb- ea
1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I.PRESPresent tense (tense)
current
I like that you can be kind, I like the [be-kind]able-being of yours.
Sample of Cathilean[view] Nìtaigh auoþòbh, Eòniun Ngaionualli.
You know nothing, Jon Snow.[view all texts]
You know nothing, Jon Snow.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Cathilean
Some sound samples of Cathilean. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Ricquiurðainen Æmrannencquinaie chuaeviðinn. Manaeði qoìnn? Ðèa cqueoheli foebhdaennyriðmàrilen.
...
The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveler came along wrapped...
The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveler came along wrapped...
Language family relationships
[view] About IsolatesThis is a family for isolate languages.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m m: | n n: | ɲ [ɲ:]1 | ŋ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k kʷ | g gʷ | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | [ç]2 | x xʷ | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l l: | [ʎ]3 [ʎ:]4 | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
- before /j/, allophone of /n:/
- Before e and i, allophone of /x/
- allophone of /l/
- Before /j/, allophone of /l:/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: | y y: | [u]1 | |||||
| Near-close | [ʊ]2 | |||||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||||
| Mid | [ə]3 | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɜ ɜ: | |||||||
| Open | ä ä: | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | eʊ̯ | äʊ̯ | ei̯ | oi̯ | æi̯ | äi̯ |
- At the end of words, after /e/, /i/ or /y/, allophone of /w/
- Inserted between a consonant and /ɾ/ at the end of a word, or inside a word if it is a compund
- Inserted to prevent restricted consonant clusters
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Cathilean. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 CathileanOrthography | ||||||||||
| Àà/ä:/ | Aa/ä/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/s/, /k/ | CH ch/x/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Èè/e:/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh// |
| Ii/i/ | Ìì/i:/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Òò/o:/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/k/ | Rr/ɾ/ |
| Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/y/ | Ùù/y:/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/ɜ/ | Ỳ ỳ/ɜ:/ | Ææ/e/ | Æ̀ æ̀/e:/ | Ðð/ð/ | Þþ/θ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Noun morphology
how to conjugate and use nouns in Cathilean
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General phonology and morphophonology
23-Mar-17 16:18Word Formation and Affixes 17-Feb-17 18:12
LotM - Oct 16: Cathilean
Happy Ngauodhibh and congratulations to Egil's Cathilean: ou...
16-Oct-16 21:03Old Cathilean to Cathilean
Sound changes!!
11-Oct-16 08:16Caþþùdhvèr / Cathyverism
The major religion of the Cathileans
10-Aug-16 07:41Syntax and Sentences
How to create sentences in Cathilean
27-Jun-16 09:32Verb Morphology
How to use and decline verbs
22-Jun-16 09:53
