Laikan [LAIKN]
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[Deactivated User] on 9 December 2021
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Laikan
My first conlang, and one I hope I can hold on to. Extremely janky, because I am very new to all this language stuff.
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | n | |||||||||||
| Plosive | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | v | s | ʒ | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | ||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | o | |||||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | aʊ | ai | ɪʊ | oi | ei | oʊ |
- only used at the end of a word, allophone of /ɛ/
Syllable Structure(C)V(C)
Probably...
Probably...
Stress informationStress is not too strict, but generally it falls on the first syllable. This doesn't necessarily apply to borrowed names or things like poems or songs.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Laikan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 LaikanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | â/aʊ/ | á/ai/ | a/ɑ/ | d/d/ | ê/ɪʊ/ | é/ei/ | e/ɛ/, [ə]1 | g/g/ | i/i/ | j/ʒ/ | k/k/ |
| l/l/ | n/n/ | o/o/ | ó/oi/ | ô/oʊ/ | r/ɹ/ | s/s/ | t/t/ | v/v/ | y/ɪ/ | ý/j/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- only used at the end of a word
