Urarian [HSD]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
AthsudOfficial
AthsudOfficialSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Urarian
ʔogšádeq or Urarian (from Urara, 'mountain people') is a highly agglunative language isolate spoken in the eastern most portion of Man, with considerable influence from Nikkai, Sipang, Krekkian, Muscovian and its daughters, and some undefined substrate (probably early Tangwata'iili and Sindi).
Adjectives and adverbs are incorporated into the noun-phrase and the verb-phrase, but objects are separated. Primary word order is SVO. It's an ergative language, and its basic syllable structure is CVC, though CV in possible in core vocabulary.
Adjectives and adverbs are incorporated into the noun-phrase and the verb-phrase, but objects are separated. Primary word order is SVO. It's an ergative language, and its basic syllable structure is CVC, though CV in possible in core vocabulary.
Sample of Urarian[view] Šaiteq ʔetʔisbegariteʔ relšewhasmánró aberatʔe.
You need the dark in order to show the light.[view all texts]
You need the dark in order to show the light.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | ʔ | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ʃ | h | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Trill | ʀ | |||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | y | u u: | |
| Close-mid | e | ø | o o: | |
| Near-open | æ | |||
| Open | a a: | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Urarian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 UrarianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Áá/a:/ | Ää/æ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Óó/o:/ | Öö/ø/ | Rr/ʀ/ | Šš/ʃ/ | Úú/u:/ | WH wh/ɸ/ | ʔ/ʔ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
