Imperial Dahathic [IPH]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersImperial Dahathic is spoken by a population of 3,761,420 in 1st Dahathic Empire.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Imperial Dahathic
CURRENTLY UNDERGOING REDO, TRANSLATIONS OOD
Imperial Dahathic, known to it speakers as Da'aga Ka-Igir (People's Great Tongue), was the official language of the Dahathi Empire, given a standard form by Utθlžana II.
-ergative-absolutive, agglutinative, SOV lang
Object - Verb
Noun - Adjective
Noun - Postposition
Possessor - Possessed
-a-harmony, /ɑ/ converts every /a/ in a word to /ɑ/.
-Gender system based on the Dahathic belief in kimiś, an all-pervading lifeforce. Nouns can be without kimiś, low kimiś, middling kimiś and high kimiś. Certain nouns that refer to humans can take low kimiś gender, e.g yaunaraž 'traitor' and gurik 'paedophile'.
-allowed syllable structures: CV, VC, CCV, VCV, CVC, VCCV, VCCCV, CVCCC
-adjectives agree in case when the modified noun is Human or Divine
-verbs conjugate for tense/aspect and mood, along with a passivising prefix. Verbs are agglutinative and regular, with a slot system.
-stress is always final
-base-12 numbers
-ablative formed by adding negative suffix to the lative marker
Imperial Dahathic, known to it speakers as Da'aga Ka-Igir (People's Great Tongue), was the official language of the Dahathi Empire, given a standard form by Utθlžana II.
-ergative-absolutive, agglutinative, SOV lang
Object - Verb
Noun - Adjective
Noun - Postposition
Possessor - Possessed
-a-harmony, /ɑ/ converts every /a/ in a word to /ɑ/.
-Gender system based on the Dahathic belief in kimiś, an all-pervading lifeforce. Nouns can be without kimiś, low kimiś, middling kimiś and high kimiś. Certain nouns that refer to humans can take low kimiś gender, e.g yaunaraž 'traitor' and gurik 'paedophile'.
-allowed syllable structures: CV, VC, CCV, VCV, CVC, VCCV, VCCCV, CVCCC
-adjectives agree in case when the modified noun is Human or Divine
-verbs conjugate for tense/aspect and mood, along with a passivising prefix. Verbs are agglutinative and regular, with a slot system.
-stress is always final
-base-12 numbers
-ablative formed by adding negative suffix to the lative marker
Language family relationships
[edit] [view] Umlaržag Igir (Urban Colloquial Dahathi)Colloquial speech of the Dahathic capital.
-ʂ and ʃ, ʈ͡ʂ and t͡ʃ merge
-a and u become schwa in unstressed syllables (except when u follows a velar sound, in which case it becomes y), i becomes ɪ when in unstressed syllable.
-aspirated sounds fricativise intervocalically
-Divine gender fully lost, all former Divine nouns take Human case endings
-Benefactive and Dative merge, but further case reduction happens as Colloquial Dahathi splits into the various Dahathic languages
-ʂ and ʃ, ʈ͡ʂ and t͡ʃ merge
-a and u become schwa in unstressed syllables (except when u follows a velar sound, in which case it becomes y), i becomes ɪ when in unstressed syllable.
-aspirated sounds fricativise intervocalically
-Divine gender fully lost, all former Divine nouns take Human case endings
-Benefactive and Dative merge, but further case reduction happens as Colloquial Dahathi splits into the various Dahathic languages
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | t̪ t̪ʰ | k kʷ kʰ kʰʷ | ʔ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | s | ʃ | ʒ | ʂ | x | h | |||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t̪͡θ | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ʈ͡ʂ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | [ɫ] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | ʀ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | θʀ | θj | pt̪ | jɑ | mn | mj | ja | nm |
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||
| Polyphthongs | ai | au |
Stress informationStress is word-initial.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Imperial Dahathic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Imperial DahathicOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | Ââ/ɑ/ | Bb/p/ | Čč/t͡ʃ/ | Çç/ʈ͡ʂ/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/t̪/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/k/ |
| Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | IÂ iâ/jɑ/ | IA ia/ja/ | Kk/kʰ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | M̃ m̃/mj/ | Nn/n/ | Ṕṕ/pt̪/ |
| Pp/pʰ/ | Qq/kʷ/ | Q̆ q̆/kʰʷ/ | Rr/ʀ/ | Śś/ʂ/ | Šš/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t̪ʰ/ | TΘ tθ/t̪͡θ/ | Uu/u/ |
| Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/j/ | Žž/ʒ/ | Þþ/θj/ | Ŋŋ/nm/ | Ɱɱ/mn/ | Θθ/θ/ | ΘR θr/θʀ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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