Drelian [EDR]
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[Deactivated User] on 16 September 2017
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Drelian
Drelian is the 2nd most common language on the planet Merlen-Gala, spoken primarily by Elves, or Drel. It follows an object-subject-verb grammatical structure, and has a separate written alphabet. It's designed to be elegant, but not overtly so; words can be both functional and pleasing to hear. This, and a majority of my other languages, are purely for fun. I'm not a language expert, and I don't plan on becoming one, but I thought at least somewhat fleshing out the languages in my world would help me build it.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | [g]1 | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | [s]2 | ʃ | ʒ | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | [j]3 | w | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | gɹ | dɹ | sm | nk | ks | kɹ | sk | st | ʃɹ | bɹ |
| skɹ | pɹ |
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /j/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | u | |||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open-mid | ʌ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||
| Polyphthongs | ya | yi | ao | ie | ɑi | ai | ɔu | ye | ʌu | ou |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Drelian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 DrelianOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/, /ʌ/, /a/ | AAI aai/ɑi/ | AI ai/ai/ | AO ao/ao/ | AU au/ʌu/ | Bb/b/ | BR br/bɹ/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | CR cr/kɹ/ | CS cs/ks/ | Dd/d/ |
| DR dr/dɹ/ | DS ds/d͡ʒ/ | Ee/e/ | EE ee/i/ | EH eh/ɪ/ | EU eu/y/ | EUA eua/ya/ | EUE eue/ye/ | EUI eui/yi/ | Ff/f/ | Gg[g] |
| GR gr/gɹ/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ʒ/, [j] | Kk/k/ | KR kr/kɹ/ | KS ks/ks/ | KUR kur/kɹ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| NC nc/nk/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NK nk/nk/ | Oo/ɔ/, /o/ | OO oo/u/ | OU ou/ɔu/, /ou/ | Pp/p/ | PR pr/pɹ/ | Rr/ɹ/ | RR rr/ɾ/ | Ss[s] |
| SC sc/sk/ | SCH sch/sk/ | SCR scr/skɹ/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | SHR shr/ʃɹ/ | SK sk/sk/ | SKR skr/skɹ/ | SM sm/sm/ | ST st/st/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/, /ð/ |
| TS ts/t͡s/ | Uu/u/ | UE ue/y/ | UEA uea/ya/ | UEE uee/ye/ | UEI uei/yi/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | YE ye/ie/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
