Giantish [GIANT]
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Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 4 October 2022
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Giantish
I plan to write a story which features a race of giants, and this is their language. That is all I know for the time being, but I want to start writing down plans now.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ç | ʝ | ʁ | [ʕ]1 | h | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | [ɮ]2 | ||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /ʁ/
- allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i | y | u | |||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ʊ | |||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɔ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Giantish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 GiantishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Áá/a/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/ç/ | Dd/d/ | DH dh/ð/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Éé/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ |
| Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Íí/i/ | Jj/ʝ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | LL ll/ɬ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Őő/ø/ |
| Oo/ɔ/ | Öö/œ/ | Óó/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ʁ/, [ʕ] | Ss/s/ | SC sc/ʃ/ | SCH sch/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ |
| Űű/y/ | Üü/ʏ/ | Úú/u/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/z/ | ZJ zj/ʒ/ | ZJH zjh/ʒ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
