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 70,000,000 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 making 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 ladeitėuzgamawayousu /ladeɪ̯təʊ̯zgamawajoʊ̯su/ “if only we could not add a lot of them”
- ejective consonants
- way too frequently used diphthongs – /aɪ̯ eɪ̯ əɪ̯ oɪ̯ uɪ̯ aʊ̯ eʊ̯ əʊ̯ oʊ̯/
- more details can be found here
Language family relationships
[view] About IsolatesThis is a family for isolate languages.
[view] Zalumeili (Zalomese)The Zalomese dialect (sut’ayah zalumeili, [sutʰajaʔ zalumeɪ̯li]) is a variety of Nesyanian influenced by the Varadic languages so heavily it starts to look like a creole. Simplified phonology, lots of loanwords of Varadic origin.
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 | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [ç]3 | 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 /i/, allophone of /h/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i1 | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | aʊ | eʊ | əʊ | oʊ | aɪ | eɪ | əɪ | oɪ | uɪ2 |
- realized as [ɪ] after /ɾ w/
- often used in free variation with [we] or [wɪ]
Syllable StructureThe maximum syllable structure is CwVC, CrVC or CxVC. Word-final consonant clusters exist only dialectally, usually they are splitted with a schwa or /o/, even in loanwords.
Stress informationThe default stress location is the penultimate syllable.
OtherConsonants preceeding /i/ are slightly palatalized. This feature is not marked in the IPA transcription.
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 | |||||||||
| a a /a/ | b b /b/ | j j /d͡ʒ/ | c c /t͡ʃ/ | c’ c’ /t͡ʃʼ/ | d d /d/ | t t /t/ | t’ t’ /tʼ/ | e e /e/ | ė ė /ə/ |
| f f /f/, [p]1 | g g /g/ | h h /h/, [ç]2 | i i /i/3 | k k /k/ | k’ k’ /kʼ/ | x x /x/ | l l /l/ | m m /m/ | n n /n/, [ɲ], [ŋ]4 |
| ṅ ṅ /ɲ/ | o o /o/ | r r /ɾ/ | s s /s/ | u u /u/ | w w /w/ | y y /j/ | z z /z/ | ż ż /ʒ/ | ṡ ṡ /ʃ/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||
- after /m/
- before /i/
- realized as [ɪ] after /ɾ w/
- before velars
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Nesyanian grammar 2.0 or something
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