Harpyan [HPY]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersHarpyan is spoken by a population of around 2,000 in Löar mountains.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Harpyan
Harpyan languages in my conworld are wide dialect continuum spoken in mountain range formerly known as the Harpyan Range but was later renamed by humans to Löar Range as harpies slowly became rather legends. That happened mainly because of raids of the harpy hunters that successfully killed dozens of harpy tribes. This page shows the standardised form of the language of the Cawa and other close tribes in the central Löar mountains; that means the language with the most speakers.
- each word has to carry at least one high tone (most particles and morphemes are an exception)
- crazzzzzyyy phonology /s
- nasalized /w/ instead of true nasals
- no cases
- hierarchical alignment (maybe)
- bird form has no lips? idc slap that labialization onto them plosives
- you would expect tone contours from birds but alas i dont want to deal with them
- main inspiration in terms of grammar is navajo i think
Features (so far, we're very early in development)
- each word has to carry at least one high tone (most particles and morphemes are an exception)
- crazzzzzyyy phonology /s
- nasalized /w/ instead of true nasals
- no cases
- hierarchical alignment (maybe)
- bird form has no lips? idc slap that labialization onto them plosives
- you would expect tone contours from birds but alas i dont want to deal with them
- main inspiration in terms of grammar is navajo i think
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Epiglottal | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
| Plosive | t tʼ tʼʷ tʷ | c cʼ cʼʷ cʷ | k kʼ kʼʷ kʷ | q qʼ qʼʷ qʷ | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ1 | s sᵝ2 | z zᵝ3 | ç4 çᵝ5 | [x]6 | [χ]7 | ʜ | [h]8 | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ɫ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j j̃ | w9 w̃10 | [ʁ̞]11 | |||||||||||||||
- similar to a chirp in their bird form
- whistled consonant /sᶲ/, similar to hissing in their bird form
- whistled consonant, similar to hissing in their bird form
- /ʂ~ɕ~ç/
- /ʂᵝ~ɕᵝ~çᵝ/; whistled consonant, similar to hissing in their bird form
- allophone of /ʜ/
- allophone of /ʜ/
- allophone of /ʜ/
- closer to /ɯ/ in their bird form
- closer to /ɯ̃/ in their bird form
- allophone of /ʜ/
| Vowels | Near- front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | [ɯ]1 | ú ù | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ́ ɪ̀ | |||||
| Close-mid | [ɤ]2 | ó ò | ||||
| Mid | ə́3 ə̀ | |||||
| Open | ɑ́ ɑ̀ | |||||
- in their bird form, allophone of /ù/
- in their bird form, allophone of /ò/
- may range from /ɨ/ to /ɐ/
Syllable StructureCCCVCC max. (for now at least)
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Harpyan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 HarpyanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Áá/ɑ́/ | Aa/ɑ̀/ | Cc/c/ | CW cw/cʷ/ | C’ c’/cʼ/ | C’W c’w/cʼʷ/ | Éé/ə́/1 | Ee/ə̀/ | Hh/ʜ/, [ʰ], [x], [χ], [h] | Íí/ɪ́/ |
| Ii/ɪ̀/ | Kk/k/ | KW kw/kʷ/ | K’ k’/kʼ/ | K’W k’w/kʼʷ/ | Ll/ɫ/ | Nn/w̃/2 | Oo/ò/ | Óó/ó/ | Pp/ɸ/3 |
| Qq/q/ | QW qw/qʷ/ | Q’ q’/qʼ/ | Q’W q’w/qʼʷ/ | Rr/ʜ/, [ʁ̞] | Ss/s/ | SV sv/sᵝ/4 | Tt/t/ | TW tw/tʷ/ | T’ t’/tʼ/ |
| T’W t’w/tʼʷ/ | Úú/ú/ | Uu/ù/, [ɯ]5, [ɤ]6 | Ww/w/7 | Xx/ç/8 | XV xv/çᵝ/9 | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZV zv/zᵝ/10 | ’/ʔ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- may range from /ɨ/ to /ɐ/
- closer to /ɯ̃/ in their bird form
- similar to a chirp in their bird form
- whistled consonant /sᶲ/, similar to hissing in their bird form
- in their bird form
- in their bird form
- closer to /ɯ/ in their bird form
- /ʂ~ɕ~ç/
- /ʂᵝ~ɕᵝ~çᵝ/; whistled consonant, similar to hissing in their bird form
- whistled consonant, similar to hissing in their bird form
