Kashtyrian [KSY]
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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.
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.
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.
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
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||
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 |
- allophone of /h/
- in syllable coda, allophone of /h/
- in syllable coda, allophone of /ʁ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | ɨ | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ1 | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
Open-mid | ɔʱ | |||||||||
Near-open | æʱ | |||||||||
Open | ä |
Polyphthongs | äɪ | äʊ |
- 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/ | bì b /b/ | cì c /ʃ/ | dì d /d/ | dcì dc /d͡ʒ/1 | e e /e/ | fì f /f/ | gì g /g/ |
hì h /h/, [ħ]2, [ʔ] | i i /i/ | ì ì /ɪ/3 | jì j /j/ | kì k /k/ | lì l /l/ | mì m /m/ | nì n /n/ | ò ò /ɔʱ/ | o o /o/ | pì p /p/ |
rì r /ʁ/, [ɹ]4 | sì s /s/ | tì t /t/ | tcì tc /t͡ʃ/ | ù ù /ʊ/ | u u /ɨ/ | vì v /v/5 | xì x /x/ | zì z /z/6 | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- loan words only
- in syllable coda
- silent at the end of a word
- in syllable coda
- loan words only
- loan words only
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