Cazenian [DKZ]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Cazenian
Cazenian is a funtional language spoken by "mountain people" living on Cazen highlands and surrounding regions. There are 4 major dialects but Middle Cazenian is the official language.
Grammar:
1. VSO word order and heavily head initial.
5. 6 genders (masculine, feminine, rational collective, natural, artificial, irrational collective) divided from two super classes (rational, non-rational)
2. 7 cases: nominative & absolutive, accusative & ergative, dative, genitive, locative, instrumental and vocative.
3. Adjectives agree on gender and number, loosely agree on case.
4. 3 tenses: past, present and future, and 2 aspect: perfect and imperfect.
5. Ergativity in past tense and perfect
6. Copular sin is dropped completely in simple present tense.
Phonology:
1. plain vs palatalized consonents
2. long vs short vowels
3. backness vowel harmony
Grammar:
1. VSO word order and heavily head initial.
5. 6 genders (masculine, feminine, rational collective, natural, artificial, irrational collective) divided from two super classes (rational, non-rational)
2. 7 cases: nominative & absolutive, accusative & ergative, dative, genitive, locative, instrumental and vocative.
3. Adjectives agree on gender and number, loosely agree on case.
4. 3 tenses: past, present and future, and 2 aspect: perfect and imperfect.
5. Ergativity in past tense and perfect
6. Copular sin is dropped completely in simple present tense.
Phonology:
1. plain vs palatalized consonents
2. long vs short vowels
3. backness vowel harmony
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | ɕ | ʑ | ç | ʝ | [x]1 | [ɣ]2 | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ɕ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ʎ | ɫ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]3 | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | y | u | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | œ | ɔ | ||||||||
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | ||||||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ̯ | eɪ̯ | oʏ̯ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Cazenian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 CazenianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Àà àma /aɪ̯/ | Ää ä /æ/ | Aa a /ɑ/, /ɐ/ | Bb bo /b/ | Cc che /k/ | C' c' q'usche /ç/ | Dd de /d/ | D' d' q'usde /ɟ/ | Ee e /e/, /ə/ | Èè èma /eɪ̯/ |
| Ff fa /f/ | Gg ga /g/ | G' g' q'usga /ʝ/ | Hh hana //, /ʔ/ | Ii/ɪ/, /i/ | Jj jò /j/ | Ll la /ɫ/ | L' l' q'usla /ʎ/ | Mm me /m/ | Nn en /n/, /ŋ/ |
| N' n' q'usen /ɲ/ | Öö/ø/, /œ/ | Oo/ɔ/, /o/ | Òò òma /oʏ̯/ | Pp pà /p/ | Qq qà /t͡s/ | Q' q' q'usqà /t͡ɕ/ | Rr ra /r/, [ɾ] | Ss sa /s/ | Šš lezsa /ʂ/ |
| S' s' q'ussa /ɕ/ | Tt ta /t/ | T' t' q'usta /c/ | Üü ü /y/, /ʏ/ | Uu/ʊ/, /u/ | Vv ve /v/ | Žž lezze /ʐ/ | Zz ze /z/ | Z' z' q'usze /ʑ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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