Nesyanian [EYI]
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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
airah,kankamau c’ehi! Airah, kankamau c’ehi!
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.
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, 3 numbers and 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 [la.deɪ.təʊs.hem.be.dwa.ja.xoʊ.ja] “if only they could not make me very happy” (NEGNegative (polarity)
not-PTPast tense (tense)
action occurred before moment of speech-OPTOptative (mood)
'wish, hope'-INTSIntensive-make_happy-3PThird person plural (person)
neither speaker nor addressee, they/them.SUBSubject (argument)-1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I.DODirect object (case/role)) - ejective consonants to make it look less like Standard Average European
- way too frequently used diphthongs
cek’atoihadėi [t͡ʃe.kʼa.toɪ.ha.dəɪ] “trustworthy”
zaulaineun [zaʊ.laɪ.neʊn] “weaknesses”
deitėuzaiṡeyindaisa [deɪ.təʊ.zaɪ.ʃe.jin.daɪ.sa] “if I tightened it strongly”
(dialectally they change into long vowels) - written in zundur zetaxa owo
- more details can be found here
Sample of Nesyanian[view] Deiṅaṡ kazė meu yauti yari, zanehi, in ṅewaraiwah bat’ajun. Ru frauztuyabou zeṡni waraṡ ṡunte 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 m: | n n: | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | [p]2 | b | t tʼ | d | k kʼ | g | [ʔ]3 | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | s s: | z | ʃ | ʒ | [ç]4 [ç:]5 | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l l: | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j j: | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ ɾ: | |||||||||||||||
- before velars, allophone of /n/
- after /m/, allophone of /f/
- before other voiced stops, allophone of /g/
- before /i/, allophone of /h/
- marginal
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i1 | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | aʊ | eʊ | uɪ2 | əʊ | oɪ | oʊ | aɪ | eɪ | əɪ |
- 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, /ɾ/ alters with /l/)
/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, /ɾ/ alters with /l/)
/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!”).
OtherDialectally and in rapid/informal speech diphthongs are simplified into long vowels as follows: /aɪ əɪ/ → /eː/, /eɪ/ → /iː/, /aʊ əʊ/ → /oː/, /oʊ/ → /uː/, /eʊ/ → /ɯː/. For example, /aʊsaluŋgəɪ/ [oːsaluŋeː], /daɪnexoʊ/ [deːnexuː] etc.
Consonants preceeding /i/ are slightly palatalized (except for /ɾ w/). 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].
Consonants preceeding /i/ are slightly palatalized (except for /ɾ w/). 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].
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/, [ŋ]5 | ṅ ṅ ṅe /ɲ/ | o o o /o/ | u u u /u/ | w w wa /w/ | r r ra /ɾ/ | z z za /z/ | s s sa /s/ | 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
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