An Hour [HOUR]
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[Deactivated User] on 28 November 2019
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About An Hour
A fusional–agglutinative1 language spoken by hunter-gatherers in some forest on some conworld I'll probably never get around to making. So basically like all of my other languages.
Features include
1 To be specific, it's concatenative, polyexponential, and fairly synthetic.
Features include
- Classifier verbs – the verb phrase is composed of a classifying verb and a lexical verb. The classifying verb belongs to a small, closed set of semantically underspecified verbs and bears a majority of inflectional formatives. The classifying verb procliticises to the lexical verb, which provides most of the semantic content.
- A developed system of tense and aspect markers with some fun semantically non-compositional forms.
- A really defective case paradigm, where the major definiteness-like contrast is specificity and the rules for what forms appear where have been so muddied that I'm basically making them up on the fly.
- [ŋ͡m]
1 To be specific, it's concatenative, polyexponential, and fairly synthetic.
Sample of An HourCan't find any yet.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | t tʰ | k kʷ kʰ kʰʷ | ʔ | ||||||||||
Fricative | s | x | ħ | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s t͡sʰ | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ | ||||||||||||
Approximant | j | ɰ ɰʷ |
Blends | ŋ͡m |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | u | ||||
Close-mid | ɤ | |||||
Mid | ə1 | |||||
Open | a |
- only occurs in extrametrical syllables
Orthography
Below is the orthography for An Hour. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
An HourOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
a/a/ | c/t͡s/ | č/t͡ʃ/ | čh/t͡ʃʰ/ | ch/t͡sʰ/ | e/ɤ/ | h/ħ/ | i/i/ | j/j/ |
k/k/ | kh/kʰ/ | khw/kʰʷ/ | kw/kʷ/ | m/m/ | n/n/ | ng/ŋ͡m/ | p/p/ | ph/pʰ/ |
s/s/ | t/t/ | th/tʰ/ | u/u/ | w/ɰʷ/ | x/x/ | y/ɰ/ | ʔ/ʔ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |