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Kashtyrian
ò kàctùromiheti
[ɔʱ käʃtʊʁomiheti]*
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 3 September 2018
Language type Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species Human/humanoid
About Kashtyrian Kashtyrian is the language spoken by the Kashtyrian people in the Republic of Kashtyria (really creative, right?). There are about 9 million Kashtyrians out there.

The basic concept of Kashtyrian is agglutination, although sometimes also inflexions show up. Standard word order is SVO, but in most cases this changes as the final word receives extra emphasis. Kashtyrian has nine noun classes and is an active/stative language. Adpositions are marked as noun suffixes.

It has no known relationships, but was influenced by other languages or language families, particularly by taking lots of loanwords. Some were bought from Turkic languages, Arabic and Persian, Russian (since the 19th century). The morphosyntactic alignment was likely influenced by caucasian languages, e. g. Georgian.

Kashtyrian can be written with a modified latin alphabet (kàctùromiheti), a no longer used modified cyrillic alphabet (каштуромиҳети) and an Abugida (kàctùromiheti) which is only used to write the Kashtyrian language.
Sample of Kashtyrian[view] ì kaxip tò pùsak kàctùromihet.

I speak English
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Latest vocabulary
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Language family relationships
[edit] [view] òzdaradihet (Uzdaradian)Uzdaradian is spoken in the western parts of Kashtyria. There it is known especially for some differences in pronounciation. For example, breathiness of vowels is distinctive because there is no difference in quantity.
For learners who visit Uzdarad, the second-biggest city in Kashtyria and the city after which the dialect was named, it can be complicated both to understand what locals say and to tell them what they want to say.
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
AlveolarPost-
Alveolar
PalatalVelarUvularPharyngealGlottal
Nasal m   n            
Plosive p b   t d     k g     [ʔ]1
Fricative   f (v) s (z) ʃ   x ʁ [ħ]2 h
Affricate       t͡ʃ (d͡ʒ)          
Lateral approximant     l            
Approximant     [ɹ]3   j        
  1. allophone of /h/
  2. in syllable coda, allophone of /h/
  3. in syllable coda, allophone of /ʁ/
VowelsFrontNear-
front
CentralNear-
back
Back
Close i   ɨ    
Near-close   ɪ1   ʊ  
Close-mid e       o
Open-mid         ɔʱ
Near-open æʱ        
Open     ä    
Polyphthongs äɪ äʊ
  1. silent at the end of a word
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kashtyrian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KashtyrianOrthography [edit]
a
a
/æʱ/
à
à
/ä/
àí
àì
/äɪ/
àù
àù
/äʊ/
b
/b/
c
/ʃ/
d
/d/
dcì
dc
/d͡ʒ/1
e
e
/e/
f
/f/
g
/g/
h
/h/, [ħ]2, [ʔ]
i
i
/i/
ì
ì
/ɪ/3
j
/j/
k
/k/
l
/l/
m
/m/
n
/n/
ò
ò
/ɔʱ/
o
o
/o/
p
/p/
r
/ʁ/, [ɹ]4
s
/s/
t
/t/
tcì
tc
/t͡ʃ/
ù
ù
/ʊ/
u
u
/ɨ/
v
/v/5
x
/x/
z
/z/6
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
  1. loan words only
  2. in syllable coda
  3. silent at the end of a word
  4. in syllable coda
  5. loan words only
  6. loan words only
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Kashtyrian scripts
Both real world and Sahar
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Kashtyrian sound changes (short)
without all unnecessary background info
21-Jun-19 09:42
Kashtyrian Abugida
The tradional script of the Kashtyrian language
15-Jun-19 22:15
Kashtyrian sound changes
some language history
15-Apr-19 20:38
Kashtyrian grammar
Or: the basics of it
28-Mar-19 08:41
Typological information for Kashtyrian

Base counting systemDecimal (10)
GendersOther
Primary word orderSVO
Primary writing systemMultiple scripts used
Script typeAbugida

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