Kalish Rasanian [KALRA]
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[view flag info] Kalish Rasanian
Kalyak-San y tgiká / Kalyakká [kɑ̀ʎɑ̀ʔsɑ̀n jə d͡ʑìgɑ́ kɑ̀ʎɑ̀ʔkɑ́]

[view flag info] Kalish Rasanian
Kalyak-San y tgiká / Kalyakká [kɑ̀ʎɑ̀ʔsɑ̀n jə d͡ʑìgɑ́ kɑ̀ʎɑ̀ʔkɑ́]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersKalish Rasanian is spoken by a population of around 1,800,000 in Rasan.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kalish Rasanian
dictionary and translations are OOD rn
Sister language to
Sennic Rasanian. Its name originates from
Alteian galhak or galahak meaning "shining, glittering" and likely links to Kalish people's usage of crimson steel made from Pay-Sáwian iron for jewelry and other components of their traditional clothing.
Serves as lingua franca of Rasan. Native and L2 speakers of fluent or semi-fluent proficiency combined may reach numbers as high as 3 million.
Note: most of eastern varieties lack intervocalic voicing; capital speech features it.
yes we have <tg> /d͡ʒ/ because we hate <j> /ʒ d͡ʒ/ in this household what you gonna do about it
Sister language to


Serves as lingua franca of Rasan. Native and L2 speakers of fluent or semi-fluent proficiency combined may reach numbers as high as 3 million.
Note: most of eastern varieties lack intervocalic voicing; capital speech features it.
yes we have <tg> /d͡ʒ/ because we hate <j> /ʒ d͡ʒ/ in this household what you gonna do about it
Sample of Kalish Rasanian[view] Riy itxi aká say sa walë sá natxi aká say sa.
He is eating one egg and you are eating two eggs.[view all texts]
He is eating one egg and you are eating two eggs.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeAlteian
⤷ Proto-Alteian
⤷ Late Proto-Alteian
⤷ Ancient Alteian
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Standard Imperial Alteian
⤷ Lower Alteian Register
⤷ Rasanian dialects
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Kalish Rasanian
⤷ Proto-Alteian
⤷ Late Proto-Alteian
⤷ Ancient Alteian
⤷

⤷ Lower Alteian Register
⤷ Rasanian dialects
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[view] About AlteianBKE = before Keassa's Era
KE = Keassa's Era (lasted for 1258 years)
NE = New Era (followed Keassa's Era)
KE = Keassa's Era (lasted for 1258 years)
NE = New Era (followed Keassa's Era)
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p | [b]1 | t | [d]2 | c | [ɟ]3 | k | [g]4 | ʔ | |||||||
Fricative | s | [z]5 | [ɕ]6 | [ʑ]7 | ç8 | ʝ9 | h10 | [ɦ]11 | ||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | [t͡ɕ]12 | [d͡ʑ] | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
Flap | [ɾ]13 |
- intervocalically, allophone of /p/
- intervocalically, allophone of /t/
- intervocalically, allophone of /c/
- intervocalically, allophone of /k/
- intervocalically, allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ç/
- allophone of /ʝ/
- can be post-alveolar in front of back vowels and schwa
- can be post-alveolar in front of back vowels and schwa
- /h~x/
- intervocalically, [ɦ̥~ɣ̥], allophone of /h/
- allophone of /t͡ʃ/
- can be voiceless, word-finally, allophone of /r/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | í ì | ú1 ù | ||
Close-mid | é è | [ó]2 [ò]3 | ||
Open | ɑ́4 ɑ̀ |
- [u~ʊ]
- allophone of /ú/
- allophone of /ù/
- often pronounced [ɒ́], while /ɑ̀/ tends to be central
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kalish Rasanian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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Aa/ɑ̀/ | Áá/ɑ́/1 | Cc/c/, [ɟ]2 | Ee/è/ | Éé/é/ | Gg/ʝ/3, [ʑ] | Hh/h/4, [ɦ]5 | Íí/í/ | Ii/ì/ |
Kk/k/, [g]6, [ʔ] | Ll/l/ | LY ly/ʎ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Pp/p/, [ʔ], [b]7 | Rr/r/, [ɾ]8 | Ss/s/, [z]9 |
Tt/t/, [ʔ], [d]10 | TG tg/d͡ʒ/, [d͡ʑ] | TX tx/t͡ʃ/, [t͡ɕ] | Úú/ú/11, [ó] | Uu/ù/, [ò] | Ww/w/ | Xx/ç/12, [ɕ] | Yy/j/ | ʔ/ʔ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- often pronounced [ɒ́], while /ɑ̀/ tends to be central
- intervocalically
- can be post-alveolar in front of back vowels and schwa
- /h~x/
- intervocalically, [ɦ̥~ɣ̥]
- intervocalically
- intervocalically
- can be voiceless, word-finally
- intervocalically
- intervocalically
- [u~ʊ]
- can be post-alveolar in front of back vowels and schwa