Kaltessin [KAL]
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Kaltessin
KaltessinRegistered by
[Deactivated User] on 24 February 2017
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kaltessin
Welcome to the Kaltessin summary page! Kaltessin is a language with consonant harmony, a logographic script I'll upload as images for now because it's easiest, and 6 different sounds that an English speaker would think are h (glottals and epiglottals, plus an other). With 38 consonants and 5 vowels, Kaltessin has a high consonant-vowel ratio. Some of those consonants are fairly unusual, such as ʜ and ʡ. That's all without a single affricative, labiodental, or dental (I added two), so far. In terms of grammar, there are classes for nouns, verbs, and adjectives
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Updates:
March 1- Added both Perception tables
February 28- Updated vowel allophony
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Updates:
March 1- Added both Perception tables
February 28- Updated vowel allophony
Sample of KaltessinCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | Epiglottal | Glottal | Other | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k | g | ʡ | ʔ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ç | ʝ | x | ɣ | ħ | ʜ | h | ɧ | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ʟ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ɹ]1 | j | ʍ | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||||
- Only after ś, allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Near- back | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | [ʊ]1 | |||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]2 | |||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||
| Polyphthongs | [uʊ]3 | [æɛ]4 | [eɛ]5 | [iɛ]6 | [oʊ]7 |
- Allophone of back vowels at the ends of words.
- Allophone of all front vowels at the ends of words.
- When doubled at the end of a word, allophone of /u/
- When doubled at the end of a word, allophone of /æ/
- When doubled at the end of a word, allophone of /e/
- When doubled at the end of a word, allophone of /i/
- When doubled at the end of a word, allophone of /o/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kaltessin. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KaltessinOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/æ/ | Bb/b/ | Čč/ç/ | Cc/c/ | Çç/ɟ/ | Dd/d/ | Ďď/ð/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/β/ | Gg/g/ | Ḧḧ/ʜ/ |
| Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | J̌ǰ/ʝ/ | Kk/k/ | Ĺĺ/ʟ/ | Ll/l/ | Ľľ/ʎ/ | Ḷḷ/ɬ/ | Mm/m/ | Ńń/ŋ/ |
| Ññ/ɲ/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ɣ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Śś/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Ťť/θ/ | Uu/u/ |
| Vv/ɸ/ | Ww/w/ | Ẅẅ/ʍ/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/ɧ/ | Ýý/ħ/ | Ỹỹ/ʔ/ | Ÿÿ/ʡ/ | Zz/z/ | Źź/ʒ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Narrative & Object
When to use the narrative and object
01-Mar-17 22:17Kaltessin romanizations
the differing romanisations for Kaltessin
01-Mar-17 11:22Kaltessin Classes
They're for nouns, verbs, and adjectives
26-Feb-17 00:19Kaltessin Consonant Harmony
An explanation of the principles of consonant harmony in Kal...
24-Feb-17 22:46
