Vilia [HRL]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Vilia
My first conlang. Need I say more?
Sample of Vilia[view] ſánapáta mádabága uákalára / / ſ hj s n hn nj ſj kj p t tj j m hm d dj b g gj ŋ v z k l hl lj dl tl r hr h a ae i y e o u eu
Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz[view all texts]
Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz[view all texts]
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n n̥ | ŋ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | pʼ ʰp pʰ | tʼ ʰt tʰ | kʼ ʰk kʰ | [ʔ]1 | ||||||||||||
Fricative | ð2 | s | h | |||||||||||||
Affricate | c͡çʼ ʰc͡ç c͡çʰ | t͡ɬʼ ʰt͡ɬ t͡ɬʰ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | [j]3 | [w]4 |
- appears in rime /VP˭/, after word-final high-tone vowels and before initial vowels
- /ð/ is Vilia's rhotic and you can't stop me
- non-syllabic allophone of low-tone /i/
- non-syllabic version of low-tone /u/.
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i í [i̥]1 | u ú [u̥]2 | ||
Close-mid | e e: é: é | o o: ó: ó | ||
Open | a: á: |
Polyphthongs | uo uó | oɑ oɑ́ | ie ié | eæ eǽ |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
Syllable Structure(C)(V₁)V(V₂)(C₁), where V₁ can be one of [i̯ e̯ o̯ u̯], V₂ is either [i̯] or [u̯], and C₁ is a liquid, a nasal or a plosive [p t k m n ŋ ʰp ʰt ʰk r l], or [h].
A word shall always start and end with a phonemic consonant. an epethentic /ʔ/ is added word-initially and word-finally after high-tone vowels, and an epethentic /h/ is added word-finally after low-tone vowels if that is not the case.
A word shall always start and end with a phonemic consonant. an epethentic /ʔ/ is added word-initially and word-finally after high-tone vowels, and an epethentic /h/ is added word-finally after low-tone vowels if that is not the case.
Stress informationAlthough mostly word-initial (and fixed word-initial in some dialects) stress is phonemic, and written with a double consonant unless word-initial, where it is not indicated. Stressed syllables have their rimes lengthened: if there's a coda, it is geminated (in preaspirated consonants it's the closure, not the aspiration that lengthens: [ˈpiʰt:]), and if the stressed syllable is light, the vowel lengthens. Open stressed syllables [ˈpi:] with low tone are immune to vowel devoicing just like high toned syllables [pít], however closed low-tone stressed syllables are not [ˈpi̥t:]. Stressed high tone vowels surface a purely phonetic falling tone [ˈpît:] which does not trigger downstepping in the following syllable: as such, that is the only environment in which two high toned syllables can appear side by side /ˈpítðá/ [ˈpît:ðá].
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Vilia. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
ViliaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
a/a:/ | b bá /pʼ/ | d dá /tʼ/ | dl dlá /t͡ɬʼ/ | e é /e/ | eá/eǽ/ | ea/eæ/ | g gá /kʼ/ | h há /h/ | hn hná /n̥/ | i í /i/ |
ie/ie/ | ié/ié/ | k ká /kʰ/ | l lá /l/ | m má /m/ | n ná /n/ | o ó /o/ | oa/oɑ/ | oá/oɑ́/ | p pá /pʰ/ | r/ð/1 |
ſ ſá /s/ | s/c͡çʰ/ | t tá /tʰ/ | tl tlá /t͡ɬʰ/ | u ú /u/ | uó/uó/ | uo/uo/ | z/c͡çʼ/ | ŋ ŋá /ŋ/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- /ð/ is Vilia's rhotic and you can't stop me