Tiranese [CWS]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tiranese
Vaguely Vietnamese-inspired Gleblang spoken by a neo-steampunk magitech society in a post-apocalyptic skylands world.
Google Docs page for the language
Google Docs page for the language
Sample of Tiranese[view] Zalislo alzo nudisga dal nio aza muz su-su-su-su-su uw ta zlak wamo ku fil dupsof ta.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. / [view all texts]
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. / [view all texts]
Language family relationships
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[edit] [view] Tilon (North Tiranese (Colloquial))[ɾ̥]→[˞]
[l̥]→[ˡ]
[w̥]→[ʷ]
unrounded vowels→[ə] word-final
rounded vowels→[ʊ] word-final
labialised stops tend to lose audible release
with repeated stops/fricatives, only the second is pronounced i.e. /ɑffi/→[ɑfi]
above rule applies between words, fricatives are lengthened i.e. /siv vi/→[sivːi], /lit ta/→[li ta]
word-final /x/ is silent
[l̥]→[ˡ]
[w̥]→[ʷ]
unrounded vowels→[ə] word-final
rounded vowels→[ʊ] word-final
labialised stops tend to lose audible release
with repeated stops/fricatives, only the second is pronounced i.e. /ɑffi/→[ɑfi]
above rule applies between words, fricatives are lengthened i.e. /siv vi/→[sivːi], /lit ta/→[li ta]
word-final /x/ is silent
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | x | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l [l̥]1 | |||||||||||
| Approximant | [ʍ]2 | w | ||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]3 [ɾ̥]4 | |||||||||||
- before voiceless non-nasals, allophone of /l/
- before voiceless non-nasals, next to unrounded vowels, allophone of /w/
- between /a ɑ i u l w m n/, allophone of /l/
- between /a ɑ i u l w m n/ + before voiceless non-nasals, allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tiranese. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TiraneseOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| -/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɑ/ | Pp/p/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Zz/z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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