Edebro [EDB]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Edebro
Aysling: The official language of Gxambfan, the dominant empire on the continent of Kadsrasan.
Sahar: The extinct protolanguage of the Paroan family of the Parshita region of Miraria. (Also known as Proto-Paroan in this context.)
Designed to be minimalist and have as little role marking on nouns as possible (both morphological and syntactic).
For updates on development, check out this thread.
Neat Features:
*generally head-final, but highly free word order
*direct-inverse/hierarchical alignment
*topic-prominent
*no role marking on nouns, nor noun-verb agreement
*mandatory auxiliary verb
*reduplication to mark plurality on nouns, intensity/telicity on verbs
*no dedicated third person pronouns
*no true adjectives
*alienability distinction in possession
*four grammatical voices
*serial verb constructions
*lexical stress determining part of speech (unwritten tho)
*abfricates
Find an introductory summary about Edebro here.
Sahar: The extinct protolanguage of the Paroan family of the Parshita region of Miraria. (Also known as Proto-Paroan in this context.)
Designed to be minimalist and have as little role marking on nouns as possible (both morphological and syntactic).
For updates on development, check out this thread.
Neat Features:
*generally head-final, but highly free word order
*direct-inverse/hierarchical alignment
*topic-prominent
*no role marking on nouns, nor noun-verb agreement
*mandatory auxiliary verb
*reduplication to mark plurality on nouns, intensity/telicity on verbs
*no dedicated third person pronouns
*no true adjectives
*alienability distinction in possession
*four grammatical voices
*serial verb constructions
*lexical stress determining part of speech (unwritten tho)
*abfricates
Find an introductory summary about Edebro here.
Sample of Edebro[view] Sju. Dasj. Kedsi. Adse. Danke sor, ridsu kendso anga nis rjungi r penjtisj sin os. Ben, dendo osdjon dsus sinj Kedsi as Kendso sjigxe ros. Gami Abfatar, nus mo ridsu misgxas as tugano o, dsjadsjas emis trus masasj. Kom, dsjemri ki kim resa mare sinj, ki ikrasj nis. Resge nrobfe nosjge nis, aro da no gasi r da mirj isbo o m Abfatar, nus tadsebfentu ...[view all texts]
Sound samples in Edebro
Some sound samples of Edebro. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Ne kim pungxon ni.
You must die!
You must die!
Edebro, todinjgubo, tjoma ne ma sje?
English, motherfucker, do you speak it?
English, motherfucker, do you speak it?
Language family relationships
[view] About ParoanA language family originating in central Parshita, now spoken along much of Miraria's southern coast as far west as Vaniua.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||
Nasal | m | n nʲ | [ŋ]1 | |||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | [b]2 | t tʲ tʰ tʰʲ | [d]3 [dʲ]4 | k kʰ | [g]5 | ||||
Fricative | s | [z]6 | ʃ | [ʒ]7 | ||||||
Affricate | t͡s | [d͡z]8 | t͡ʃ | [d͡ʒ]9 | k͡x | [g͡ɣ]10 | ||||
Approximant | [j]11 | |||||||||
Trill | r rʲ [r̥ʲ]12 [r̥]13 |
Blends | pf | [bv]14 |
- adjacent to velars, allophone of /n/
- intervocalically, allophone of /p/
- intervocalically, allophone of /t/
- intervocalically, allophone of /tʲ/
- intervocalically, allophone of /k/
- intervocalically, allophone of /s/
- intervocalically, allophone of /ʃ/
- intervocalically, allophone of /t͡s/
- intervocalically, allophone of /t͡ʃ/
- intervocalically, allophone of /k͡x/
- in clusters and sometimes coda, allophone of /rʲ/
- following aspirated stops, allophone of /rʲ/
- following aspirated stops, allophone of /r/
- intervocalically, allophone of /pf/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
Mid | e̞ | [ə]3 | o̞ | |||||||
Open-mid | [ɛ]4 | [ɔ]5 | ||||||||
Open | ä |
- before nasals, unstressed, allophone of /i/
- before nasals, unstressed, allophone of /u/
- unstressed, allophone of /ä/
- before voiced consonants, unstressed, allophone of /e̞/
- before voiced consonants, unstressed, allophone of /o̞/
Syllable StructureEdebro syllables are maximally of the form CRVN, where C is any consonant, R is a liquid, V is a vowel, and N is a nasal stop, liquid, or sibilant fricative. CR clusters may not be formed with sibilant fricatives.
Stress informationStress in Edebro is lexically distinctive, and its placement often marks the difference between nouns and verbs. Nouns, determiners and numerals typically have word-final stress, while verbs, auxiliaries and adpositions typically have penultimate stress.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Edebro. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
EdebroOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa/ä/, [ə]1 | Bb/p/, [b]2 | BF bf/pf/, [bv]3 | Dd/t/, [d]4 | DJ dj/tʲ/, [dʲ]5 | DS ds/t͡s/, [d͡z]6 | DSJ dsj/t͡ʃ/, [d͡ʒ]7 | Ee/e̞/, [ɛ]8 | Gg/k/, [g]9 | GX gx/k͡x/, [g͡ɣ]10 | Ii/i/, [ɪ]11 | Kk/kʰ/ |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ]12 | NJ nj/nʲ/ | Oo/o̞/, [ɔ]13 | Pp/pʰ/ | Rr/r/, [r̥]14 | RJ rj/rʲ/, [r̥ʲ]15, [j]16 | Ss/s/, [z]17 | SJ sj/ʃ/, [ʒ]18 | Tt/tʰ/ | TJ tj/tʰʲ/ | Uu/u/, [ʊ]19 |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- unstressed
- intervocalically
- intervocalically
- intervocalically
- intervocalically
- intervocalically
- intervocalically
- before voiced consonants, unstressed
- intervocalically
- intervocalically
- before nasals, unstressed
- adjacent to velars
- before voiced consonants, unstressed
- following aspirated stops
- following aspirated stops
- in clusters and sometimes coda
- intervocalically
- intervocalically
- before nasals, unstressed