Classical Enigentian [ENGL]
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Enigentilaim [ˈe̞nige̞nt̪ilaɪ̯m]
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Enigentilaim [ˈe̞nige̞nt̪ilaɪ̯m]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersClassical Enigentian is spoken by a population of around 381,900,000 in Enigentian Empire.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Classical Enigentian
Classical Enigentian, also known simply as Enigentian (Enigentilaim Enigentilåim, /ˈe̞nige̞nt̪ilaɪ̯m/), is a Tuilohic language of the Athru-Kherzomian language family.
It is an infleced language with two classes (hard and soft) for nouns and verbs. Nouns, adjectives and pronouns have seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, lative, ablative, abessive and instrumental). The verbs have five tense and aspect combinations in the indicative mood (present imperfective, present continuous, past perfect, past habitual and simple future) and four more grammatically tense-less constructions (prospective, desirative, optative and imperative), although some do imply tense (see article for more info).
It is head initial and generally SVO, but some constructions (such as with "to be" or "to have") are SOV.
When compared to other Athrutian languages, it is much more conservative with its features – keeping the dual number, using evidentiality markers or still being mostly SVO instead of SOV.
The language is written in Enigentian Inemre (Inemre Enigentilaem Inemre Enigentilåem, /ˈine̞mre̞ ˈe̞nige̞nt̪ilɑe̞m/), which ultimatelly originate in Renaghatic hieroglyphs, which may have been inspired by or derived from Ashbarni writing.
Because of the size and influence of the Enigentian Empire, it has since become the lingua franca of most of the educated world of Cutlatul, as well as being the and main language of communication between ileamuret and humans (and also the first language spoken by two different species).
It is an infleced language with two classes (hard and soft) for nouns and verbs. Nouns, adjectives and pronouns have seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, lative, ablative, abessive and instrumental). The verbs have five tense and aspect combinations in the indicative mood (present imperfective, present continuous, past perfect, past habitual and simple future) and four more grammatically tense-less constructions (prospective, desirative, optative and imperative), although some do imply tense (see article for more info).
It is head initial and generally SVO, but some constructions (such as with "to be" or "to have") are SOV.
When compared to other Athrutian languages, it is much more conservative with its features – keeping the dual number, using evidentiality markers or still being mostly SVO instead of SOV.
The language is written in Enigentian Inemre (Inemre Enigentilaem Inemre Enigentilåem, /ˈine̞mre̞ ˈe̞nige̞nt̪ilɑe̞m/), which ultimatelly originate in Renaghatic hieroglyphs, which may have been inspired by or derived from Ashbarni writing.
Because of the size and influence of the Enigentian Empire, it has since become the lingua franca of most of the educated world of Cutlatul, as well as being the and main language of communication between ileamuret and humans (and also the first language spoken by two different species).
Language family relationships
Language treeAthrutian
⤷ Athrutian
⤷ Eastern Athrutian
⤷ Tuilohic
⤷ Western Tuilohic
⤷ Old Enigentian / Ververian
⤷ High Enigentian Dialect
⤷
Classical Enigentian
⤷ Athrutian
⤷ Eastern Athrutian
⤷ Tuilohic
⤷ Western Tuilohic
⤷ Old Enigentian / Ververian
⤷ High Enigentian Dialect
⤷
Classical Enigentian[view] About AthrutianThe Athru-Kherzomian family is a language family from a planet called Cutlatul (rarely pronounced correctly with /ku/ at the start) on continents named Athrut and Kherzom, after which it is named. Many languages of said planet, both living and dead, ...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t̪ | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]1 | [β]2 | v3 | θ | x | |||||||||
| Affricate | c͡ç | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]4 | |||||||||||||
| Blends | [tx]5 | [kx]6 | mp | wɛ | wi |
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /v/
- From Proto-Tuilohian /w/ -> /v/; from that /β/ -> /ɸ/ -> /p/
- allophone of /r/
- Only in some dialects, allophone of /θ/
- Only in some dialects, allophone of /c͡ç/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | [ɯ]1 | u | |
| Close-mid | [e]2 | |||
| Mid | e̞ | |||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]3 | |||
| Open | [a]4 | ɑ | [ɒ]5 | |
| Polyphthongs | ew | ɒu | iɯ | ei | ai |
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e̞/
- allophone of /e̞/
- allophone of /ɑ/
- allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Classical Enigentian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Classical EnigentianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||||
| Ii Ii I /i/ | Nn Nn Ne /n/ | Ee Ee E /e̞/ | Mm Mm Em /m/ | Rr Rr Re /r/ | Kk Cc Cu /k/ | Uu Uu U /u/ | Tt Tt Ta /t̪/ | Åå Aa A /ɑ/ | Gg Gg Ge /g/ | Vv Vv Ve /v/1 | Ll Ll Le /l/ | Hh Xx Ex /x/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||||
- From Proto-Tuilohian /w/ -> /v/; from that /β/ -> /ɸ/ -> /p/
Additional NotesName of the script is derived from the order, where characters are ordered by their complexity in lowercase form (amount of curves/strokes/...).
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