Kasewayan [EHY]
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Siblaime on 9 September 2019
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersKasewayan is spoken by a population of around 35,000,000 in Kasewaya and Inwez.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kasewayan
yes i am using <y> for a vowel and <ý> for a consonant and you can do nothing about it
Sample of Kasewayan[view] Zoxo za eýi e ate ukáxzeweý ásexde sunis xəcády bemən tal xás soxasi bex.
The truth is that one alien from far away trusted us more than we trust ourselves[view all texts]
The truth is that one alien from far away trusted us more than we trust ourselves[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeDesanian
⤷ Proto-Desanian
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Old Desani
⤷ Northern Desanian
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Kasewayan
⤷ Proto-Desanian
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Old Desani⤷ Northern Desanian
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Kasewayan[view] About DesanianOne of the language families of the western regions of Dawera, among a few other unrelated groups of languages.
Modern Desanian languages are spoken by over 40 million people in Kasewaya, Inwez, Nesyania and Tazul.
Modern Desanian languages are spoken by over 40 million people in Kasewaya, Inwez, Nesyania and Tazul.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Other | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ɲ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t2 | d3 | c | ɟ | k | |||||||||
| Fricative | s | z | ʃ | x | ʁ4 | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | [l]5 | ɫ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r6 | |||||||||||||||
- before /i/, allophone of /n/
- actually dental [t̪]
- actually dental [d̪]
- inconsistent, can be realized as [ʀ]
- before /i/, allophone of /ɫ/
- often tapped [ɾ]
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | ɨ ɨ: | u u: | |||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a | ɑ ɑ: | ||||
Syllable Structure(C)V(C)
Stress informationMost words are stressed on the penultimate syllable, except for certain interjections. Adding declension suffixes doesn't change the stress location, for example:
dákəs [ˈd̪ɑːkəs] ‘dogs’
dákəzax [ˈd̪ɑːkəzaʁ] ‘to (the) dogs’
dákəs [ˈd̪ɑːkəs] ‘dogs’
dákəzax [ˈd̪ɑːkəzaʁ] ‘to (the) dogs’
OtherLong vowels are distinguished only in stressed syllables, for example:
kelin [ˈkeːlin] ‘to want’
kelani [keˈlaɲi] ‘wanted’
kelin [ˈkeːlin] ‘to want’
kelani [keˈlaɲi] ‘wanted’
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kasewayan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| KasewayanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| a a /a/ | á á /ɑ/ | b b /b/ | p p /p/ | j j /ɟ/ | c c /c/ | d d /d/1 | t t /t/2 | ė ə /ə/ |
| e e /e/ | i i /i/ | y y /ɨ/ | ý ý /j/ | h h /x/ | x x /ʁ/3 | k k /k/ | l l /ɫ/, [l]4 | m m /m/ |
| n n /n/, [ɲ]5 | o o /o/ | u u /u/ | r r /r/6 | s s /s/ | ś ś /ʃ/ | w w /w/ | z z /z/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
- actually dental [d̪]
- actually dental [t̪]
- inconsistent, can be realized as [ʀ]
- before /i/
- before /i/
- often tapped [ɾ]
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