Kairlish [KTLK]
▲
1▲ 1 ▼ 0
Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 21 March 2023
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kairlish
Kairlish is a language spoken by the K'ētlĭŝ·k'ā (Kairlish) people in the Kęrňēþ·i (Kernemethi) planetary system.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Other | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ | t tʼ | k kʼ | q q̚ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | θ | ð ð̩ | s sʲ | [z]1 | ʃ ʃʲ | x xʷ xʲ | ɣ | χ χ̩ | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ɬ t͡ɬ̩ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ ɬʲ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j̊2 | j | ɥ | |||||||||||||
| Trill | [r̥]3 | [r]4 | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | m͡n |
- allophone of /sʲ/
- /j/ turns into /j̊/ when it is the final sound in the word
- allophone of /ɾ/
- allophone of /ɾ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | [i]1 [ĭ]2 | y | ɯ ɯ: | |||||
| Near-close | ɪ ɪ̆3 | |||||||
| Mid | ə ə: ə̆4 | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | |||||||
| Open | a a: ă5 | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | aʔa | ɛʔɛ | iʔi | ɯʔɯ | o͡ɤ |
- allophone of /ɪ/
- [see note 3], allophone of /ɪ̆/
- This is an extra-short vowel (ɪ̆), but the extra-short option appears to not be on the list.
- [see note 3]
- [see note 3]
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kairlish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KairlishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Dð/ð/ | Ss/s/ | Jj/j/ | Aa/a/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Gg/ɣ/ | Tt/t/ | Ll/ɬ/ | Kk/k/ | Ee/ɛ/ |
| Rr/ɾ/ | Ww/xʷ/ | Ęę/ə/ | Þþ/θ/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/y/ | Qq/q/ | Cc/χ/ | Uu/ɯ/ | Pp/p/ | Oo/o͡ɤ/ | Ĕĕ// |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
