Nesyanian [EYI]
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Typology
Functional
4,300 words
[view flag info] Nesyanian
yak’a esaini [jakʼa esaɪ̯ɲi | jakʰa eseːɲi]
[view flag info] Nesyanian
yak’a esaini [jakʼa esaɪ̯ɲi | jakʰa eseːɲi]
Registered by
Siblaime on 10 November 2019
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersNesyanian is spoken by a population of around 57,000,000 in Nesyania and Zaloma.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nesyanian
My last attempt on creating an analytical language with almost no declension has failed miserably, so after a ragequit I'm changing it into a blursed agglutinative abomination.
- strongly head-initial – VSO, the possessee preceeds the possessor, and adjectives/adverbs (which are identical) come after the nouns and verbs they describe
- noun declension system featuring 10 cases and 3 numbers plus a bunch of other affixed modifiers
- each verb has 6 slots for various affixes marking tense, mood, intensity, subject and object, which can create pretty words such as ladeitėuzhembedwayaxouya [ladeɪtəʊshembedwajaxoʊja] “if only they could not make me very happy”
- ejective consonants to make it look less like Standard Average European
- way too frequently used diphthongs
cek’atoihazėi [t͡ʃekʼatoɪhazəɪ] “trustworthy”
zaulaineun [zaʊlaɪneʊn] “weaknesses”
deitėuzaiṡeyindaisa [deɪtəʊzaɪʃejindaɪsa] “if I tightened it strongly”
(they change into long vowels dialectally, though) - written in zundur zetaxa owo
- more details can be found here
Sample of Nesyanian[view] Deiṅė kazaṡ meu yauti yari, zanehi, in ṅewaraiwah bat’ajun. Ru tėuztuyabou zeṡni waraṡ wai twėm, fim dulaxou krėi.
My old mother always used to say, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away.[view all texts]
My old mother always used to say, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | [p]2 | b | t tʼ | d | k kʼ | g | [ʔ]3 | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [ç]4 | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- before velars, allophone of /n/
- after /m/, allophone of /f/
- before other voiced stops, allophone of /g/
- before /i/, allophone of /h/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i1 | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ | eɪ | əɪ | oɪ | uɪ2 | aʊ | eʊ | əʊ | oʊ |
- realized as [ɪ] after /ɾ w/
- often used in free variation with [we] or [wɪ]
Syllable StructureThe maximum syllable structure is CwVC, CɾVC or CxVC (V can be a diphthong as well, not necessarily a plain single vowel).
Attested word-initial clusters include:
/bɾ mɾ fɾ dɾ tɾ zɾ d͡ʒɾ t͡ʃɾ kɾ xɾ/ (sometimes, e.g. in certain dialects, /l/ alters with /ɾ/)
/bw mw nw dw tw sw zw gw kw xw/
/mx fx tx t͡ʃx sx/
Ejective consonants /tʼ t͡ʃʼ kʼ/ cannot start a cluster or be word-final.
Attested word-initial clusters include:
/bɾ mɾ fɾ dɾ tɾ zɾ d͡ʒɾ t͡ʃɾ kɾ xɾ/ (sometimes, e.g. in certain dialects, /l/ alters with /ɾ/)
/bw mw nw dw tw sw zw gw kw xw/
/mx fx tx t͡ʃx sx/
Ejective consonants /tʼ t͡ʃʼ kʼ/ cannot start a cluster or be word-final.
Stress informationThe default stress location is the penultimate syllable. In a few words, such as some interjections, the stress falls on the last syllable, e.g. airah [aɪˈɾah] (“greetings!” or “hello!”).
OtherConsonants preceeding /i/ are slightly palatalized. This feature is not marked in the IPA transcription.
Combinations of /u/ + nasal consonant become [ũ] when they are word-final or preceed another consonant, for example /ɲum/ [ɲũ], /sunti/ [sũti].
Combinations of /u/ + nasal consonant become [ũ] when they are word-final or preceed another consonant, for example /ɲum/ [ɲũ], /sunti/ [sũti].
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nesyanian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NesyanianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a a a /a/ | b b ba /b/ | f f fa /f/, [p]1 | j j je /d͡ʒ/ | c c ce /t͡ʃ/ | c’ c’ c’e /t͡ʃʼ/ | d d da /d/ | t t ta /t/ | t’ t’ t’a /tʼ/ | ė ė ė /ə/ |
| e e e /e/ | i i i /i/2 | y y ya /j/ | g g ga /g/, [ʔ]3 | h h ha /h/, [ç]4 | k k ka /k/ | k’ k’ k’a /kʼ/ | x x xa /x/ | l l la /l/ | m m ma /m/ |
| n n na /n/, [ɲ], [ŋ]5 | ṅ ṅ ṅe /ɲ/ | o o o /o/ | u u u /u/ | r r ra /ɾ/ | s s sa /s/ | w w wa /w/ | z z za /z/ | ż ż że /ʒ/ | ṡ ṡ ṡe /ʃ/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
- after /m/
- realized as [ɪ] after /ɾ w/
- before other voiced stops
- before /i/
- before velars
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Nesyanian grammar 2.0 or something
Not OOD anymore, yay. The conlang is still blursed
28-May-22 11:16CoWriMo 2022 – Nesyanian
a compilation of the texts I wrote
28-Feb-22 20:39Standard vs. Zalomese Nesyanian
some dialectal variety yay
28-Nov-21 11:21
