Nesyanian [EYI]
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Registered by
Siblaime on 10 November 2019
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersNesyanian is spoken by a population of around 43,500,000 in Nesyania.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nesyanian
• probably agglutinative, sometimes analytical (hard to tell), nominative-accusative, head-initial
• derived from
Old Nesyanian
• purged like five times but shhh
• verbs have tense, mood and simple evidentiality system, everything is affixed
• ezāfe-ish possession marking
• who needs bilabial plosives when you can have labiodental frics only
• heavily influenced most of the neighboring languages of the conworld, including
Standard Keranian, 
Saritani and 
Northern Tazuro
• derived from
Old Nesyanian• purged like five times but shhh
• verbs have tense, mood and simple evidentiality system, everything is affixed
• ezāfe-ish possession marking
• who needs bilabial plosives when you can have labiodental frics only
• heavily influenced most of the neighboring languages of the conworld, including
Standard Keranian, Saritani and Northern Tazuro
Language family relationships
Language treeTohei
⤷ Proto-Tohei
⤷ Proto-Nesyanian
⤷ Old Nesyanian
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Nesyanian
⤷ Proto-Tohei
⤷ Proto-Nesyanian
⤷
Old Nesyanian⤷
Nesyanian [view] Zalume (Zalomese)Zalomese or Zalomi, natively Zalume [zəluˈme] is a southern variety of Nesyanian and the official language of Zaloma.
Main differences:
• less loanwords of Desanian origin
• no evidentiality
• some changes in the phonology (no /t͡s d͡z/, a bit more intense vowel deletion/reduction)
• probably a few other minor features not worth being mentioned here
Main differences:
• less loanwords of Desanian origin
• no evidentiality
• some changes in the phonology (no /t͡s d͡z/, a bit more intense vowel deletion/reduction)
• probably a few other minor features not worth being mentioned here
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | [p̪]2 | [b̪]3 | t [tʲ]4 | d [dʲ]5 | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- before velars, allophone of /n/
- after /m/, allophone of /f/
- after /m/, allophone of /v/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | |||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
- word-final, allophone of /e/
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 | |||||||||
| Aa a /a/ | Dd da /d/ | Ḍḍ ḍa /d͡z/ | Tt ta /t/ | Ṭṭ ṭa /t͡s/ | Ee e /e/, [ə]1 | Ff fa /f/, [p̪]2 | Gg ge /g/ | Kk ke /k/ | Ẋẋ ẋa /ɣ/ |
| Xx xa /x/ | Hh ha /h/ | Ii i /i/ | Jj je /d͡ʒ/ | Cc ce /t͡ʃ/ | Ll la /l/ | Mm ma /m/ | Nn na /n/, [ɲ], [ŋ]3 | Ṅṅ ṅa /ɲ/ | Rr ra /ɾ/ |
| Ss es /s/ | Uu u /u/ | Vv va /v/, [b̪]4 | Ww wa /w/ | Yy ya /j/ | Zz ze /z/ | Żż ża /ʒ/ | Ṡṡ eṡ /ʃ/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||
- word-final
- after /m/
- before velars
- after /m/
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