Kasewayan [EHY]
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Registered by
Siblaime on 9 September 2019
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersKasewayan is spoken by a population of around 18,000,000 in Kasewaya.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kasewayan
Articles coming soon.
• another modern Desanian lang, derived from
Old Desani
• no word-initial consonant clusters
• animacy distinctions
• close vowels are still there as phonemes and the schwa is only an allophone of the glorious /ɨ/
• basically, I try to make it easily distinguishable from
Standard Keranian
Technical information
• another modern Desanian lang, derived from
Old Desani • no word-initial consonant clusters
• animacy distinctions
• close vowels are still there as phonemes and the schwa is only an allophone of the glorious /ɨ/
• basically, I try to make it easily distinguishable from
Standard Keranian
Sample of KasewayanCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeDesanian
⤷ Proto-Desanian
⤷ Old Desani
⤷ early Kaseyu dialects
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Kasewayan
⤷ Proto-Desanian
⤷
Old Desani⤷ early Kaseyu dialects
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Kasewayan[view] About DesanianThe name Desanian or Desani is derived from the phrase desa nehi meaning 'from the south' (although folk etymology derives this name from de sane - 'main, ruling, primary').
There are two main branches of Desanian languages: "highland"...
There are two main branches of Desanian languages: "highland"...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ɲ]1 | [ŋ]2 | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | [ɣ]3 | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
- before /i/, allophone of /n/
- before velars, allophone of /n/
- before voiced consonants, allophone of /x/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɨ | u | |||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
- after /j/, /k/ and /g/, allophone of /ɨ/
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 | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ee/e/ | Ëë/ɨ/, [ə]1 | Bb/b/ | Pp/p/ | Dd/d/ | Tt/t/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Hh/x/, [ɣ]2 |
| Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Gg/g/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ɲ]3, [ŋ]4 | Oo/o/ | Rr/r/ |
| Ss/s/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||
- after /j/, /k/ and /g/
- before voiced consonants
- before /i/
- before velars
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