Sarvian [HCR]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sarvian
One of several conlangs I'm making for a fictional world. It is a language of a large (once much larger) empire.
The language is agglutinative, strongly head-final, and has seemingly long consonant clusters that are broken with epinthetic vowels.
The language is agglutinative, strongly head-final, and has seemingly long consonant clusters that are broken with epinthetic vowels.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t tʼ | d | k kʼ | g | ʔ | |||||||||
Fricative | f̪ʲ1 | v | θ | s | ʃ | x | h | |||||||||
Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ | d͡z | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʟ | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Blends | wɛ | wʌ | wi | wɑ |
- dentolabial
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | u | ||
Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ||
Open | ɑ |
Polyphthongs | ɛi̯ | iu̯ | ɑi̯ | ʌu̯ | ɛu̯ | ʌi̯ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sarvian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
SarvianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
' ' /ʔ/ | a Aa /ɑ/ | b Bb /b/ | c Cc /t͡s/ | c' C' c' /t͡sʼ/ | ch Ch ch /t͡ʃ/ | ch' CH' ch' /t͡ʃʼ/ | d Dd /d/ | e Ee /ɛ/ | g Gg /g/ | h Hh /h/ | i Ii /i/ |
j Jj /d͡ʒ/ | k Kk /k/ | k' K' k' /kʼ/ | x Kh kh /x/ | l Ll /l/ | w Ll ll /ʟ/ | m Mm /m/ | n Nn /n/ | nn Nn nn /ŋ/ | o Oo /ʌ/ | p Pp /p/ | r Rr /r/ |
s Ss /s/ | sh Sh sh /ʃ/ | t Tt /t/ | t' T' t' /tʼ/ | q Th th /θ/ | u Uu /u/ | v Vv /v/ | y Yy /j/ | yh YH yh /f̪ʲ/1 | z Zz /d͡z/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- dentolabial