Old Kerk [KXO]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Kerk
Fake Armenian
Sample of Old Kerk[view] Haratʽatʽ chʽaschʽevim. Spʽampʽ yer dveviskʽunməs erk giekʽachunməs nkvadzrkʽ aghluane erk horu haygals snankʽ pʽornəsel. / / Hor uryvorogel msks elugtʽaytʽal kʽenkvis kʽapkʽohakʽ iš yer aghluane kchʽorna geyernats erk ansnashaves, eletʽatʽ pʽadzevenechʽ hatʽas ettʽvanamdzayever.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeKarkem-Showash
⤷ Proto-Karkem-Showash
⤷ Proto-Karkem
⤷ Old Kerk
⤷ Proto-Karkem-Showash
⤷ Proto-Karkem
⤷ Old Kerk
[view] About Karkem-ShowashThe dominant language family in much of the arid, mountainous, and hot reaches of Eastern Celea. Inspired mainly by a combination of Old Persian, Hittite, Urartian and Armenian.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | b | t tʰ | d | k kʰ | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | v | s | z | ʃ | x | ɣ | [χ]1 | [ʁ]2 | h | |||||||
Affricate | t͡s t͡sʰ | d͡z | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /ɣ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | u | |||||||
Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
Open | ɑ |
Polyphthongs | ɔw |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Kerk. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Old KerkOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | CHʽ chʽ/t͡ʃʰ/ | Dd/d/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɣ/ |
Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | J̌ǰ/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | KH kh/x/, [χ] | Kʽ kʽ/kʰ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, /ŋ/ |
Oo/ɔ/ | OW ow/ɔw/ | Pp/p/ | Pʽ pʽ/pʰ/ | Rr/ɾ/ | RR rr/r/ | Šš/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ |
TS ts/t͡s/ | TSʽ tsʽ/t͡sʰ/ | Tʽ tʽ/tʰ/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | Łł[ʁ] | Əə/ə/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |