Kiantan [KINTL]
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Kiantan
Kiantateilan [kiantateilan]*
KiantanKiantateilan [kiantateilan]*
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersKiantan is spoken by a population of around 24,000,000 in Liyakianta Kaishiminia.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kiantan
This artlang is made for my fantasy world - Kaiedale.
Kiantateilan is the primary language spoken in Liyakianta Kaishiminia (Liyakianta Kingdom) by the Kianta - a human-like race. It has three dialects: Neraya (Southern - official, for formal uses, most broadly spoken), Shadel (Northern), and Reaytanvin (Arctic).
In the Linnian continent of Kaiedale, Kiantateilan is the most widely spoken language, making it the primary language for communication in Linnian.
Overview
Morphosyntactic alignment: Ergative - Absolutive.
Although the primary word order is SVO, identifying sentence subjects and objects in Kiantateilan is not dependent on linear positioning but is concretely marked by grammatical cases. Therefore, in some specific situations, the word order might not be SVO (relative clause, passive, etc.).
Adjectives can, in specific grammatical constructions, take on a function similar to verbs. For instance, Kiantateilan adjectives can "conjugate" in agreement with tenses, without using verbs (in sentences).
Pronouns in Kiantateilan are a full mess, with multiple use cases, honorifics, etc.
Kiantateilan is the primary language spoken in Liyakianta Kaishiminia (Liyakianta Kingdom) by the Kianta - a human-like race. It has three dialects: Neraya (Southern - official, for formal uses, most broadly spoken), Shadel (Northern), and Reaytanvin (Arctic).
In the Linnian continent of Kaiedale, Kiantateilan is the most widely spoken language, making it the primary language for communication in Linnian.
Overview
Morphosyntactic alignment: Ergative - Absolutive.
Although the primary word order is SVO, identifying sentence subjects and objects in Kiantateilan is not dependent on linear positioning but is concretely marked by grammatical cases. Therefore, in some specific situations, the word order might not be SVO (relative clause, passive, etc.).
Adjectives can, in specific grammatical constructions, take on a function similar to verbs. For instance, Kiantateilan adjectives can "conjugate" in agreement with tenses, without using verbs (in sentences).
Pronouns in Kiantateilan are a full mess, with multiple use cases, honorifics, etc.
Sample of Kiantan[view] neiln yeilain il hana yamwal yani miagul. neiln yeile yana yamwal yanaln hatae il wyahiketh chi neiln kyosha.
You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.[view all texts]
You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | b | t tʰ | d | c | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | h | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Implosive | [ɗ]1 | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | wi | je | wje | wa | ji | wja | we | jo | jɯ | ja |
- allophone of /d/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | ɯ | [u]1 | |
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]2 | [ɔ]3 | ||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | ao | ia | ae | oe | ɯa | ei | io | ai | aɯ | ea |
| ie |
- allophone of /ɯ/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kiantan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KiantanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| b bi /b/ | k ka /k/ | g ga /g/ | c ce /k/ | l la /l/ | m mi /m/ | n na /n/ | t ta /t/ | d da /d/ | th thi /tʰ/ |
| f fil /f/ | v vil /v/ | h hi /h/ | s sa /s/ | z za /z/ | sh sha /ʃ/ | ch chil /c/ | r re /l/ | a a /a/ | i i /i/ |
| y y /i/ | e e /e/ | o o /o/ | u u /ɯ/ | ya ya /ja/ | yi yi /ji/ | ye ye /je/ | yo yo /jo/ | yu yu /jɯ/ | wa wa /wa/ |
| wi wi /wi/ | we we /we/ | wya wya /wja/ | wye wye /wje/ | ai ai /ai/ | ae ae /ae/ | ao ao /ao/ | au au /aɯ/ | ia ia /ia/ | ie ie /ie/ |
| io io /io/ | ea ea /ea/ | ei ei /ei/ | ey eyl /ei/ | oe oe /oe/ | ua ua /ɯa/ | ||||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
