Kursk [EKK]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kursk
Kursk is the official language (together with Nasqed) of Kurskistan, a small landlocked country located in the Caucasus.
I started working on Kursk in years 2000-2005, then forgot it nearly completely until recently. It is a fusional language, highly influenced by indo-european languages, with a standard SVO order.
It has 4 cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, and a catchall case called dative), and 2 numbers (singular and plural - uncountable nouns can be used in the plural with a generic meaning, and in the singular with a specific meaning).
The 2nd person pronouns (formal and informal) use the same form for singular and plural in nominative case, but have different forms for other cases.
Optative mood is expressed using a "optative constuction", with head and modifier inverted (subject & verb, or noun and adjective).
I started working on Kursk in years 2000-2005, then forgot it nearly completely until recently. It is a fusional language, highly influenced by indo-european languages, with a standard SVO order.
It has 4 cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, and a catchall case called dative), and 2 numbers (singular and plural - uncountable nouns can be used in the plural with a generic meaning, and in the singular with a specific meaning).
The 2nd person pronouns (formal and informal) use the same form for singular and plural in nominative case, but have different forms for other cases.
Optative mood is expressed using a "optative constuction", with head and modifier inverted (subject & verb, or noun and adjective).
Sample of Kursk[view] Irūs du ex ukilsem dam du skazūs ok Internetēs; lazim vēmek Übeld Üeldi Ahraki sbinūm.
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet; that's how World War I started.[view all texts]
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet; that's how World War I started.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeKurskian languages
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KurskPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | x | χ | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
- before /k/ and /g/, allophone of /n/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | y | u u: | |||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o o: | |||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | eɛ: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kursk. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| KurskOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa a /a/ | Bb be /b/ | Cc ec /ʃ/ | Dd de /d/ | Ee e /e/, /e/ | Ff ef /f/ | Gg ge /g/ | HR hr hre /χ/ | Ii i /i/ | Jj je /j/ | Kk ek /k/ | Ll le /l/ |
| Mm me /m/ | Nn ne /n/, [ŋ]1 | Oo o /o/ | Pp ep /p/ | Rr re /r/ | Ss es /s/ | Tt et /t/ | Uu u /u/ | Üü üe /w/ | Vv ve /v/ | Xx ex /x/ | Zz ze /z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- before /k/ and /g/
