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Legim [legɪm̥]*
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 28 September 2015
Language type A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken in: NordjaelmOfficial ZoerjaandhiaRegional RakthariaRegional The Anarchic Territory Of North ShalorjaMinority ShalorjaMinority RakthariaMinority
Species Human/humanoid
About Legim A language spoken on Sahar in the Empire of Nordjaelm, on the continent of Alpa, belonging to the Dumaric language family, of the hypothetical West Alpic superfamily. It has become the lingua franca across the empire, as it is spoken in the capital of Kjonnia, but several regional dialects have evolved over the years that differ to the standard. It is closely related to Legjok and Thaljan, which are spoken in North-East and North Nordjaelm respectively. In everyday life, the extended Latin alphabet is used, but in matters of religion and state, the Legonic alphabet is favoured.

Here are some features:
  • 6 Nominal Cases: Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Ablative and Locative, as well as Instrumentative and Vocative found mostly in literature, archaic language and some colloquial expressions (although case number and use depends on dialect)
  • Generally SOV, but due to high inflection in all parts of speech, word order is quite fluid
  • There are 3 genders, masculine, feminine and neuter, as well as 6 noun classes that define the gender of the noun. Generally speaking, Classes 1 and 2 are feminine, 3 and 4 are masculine and 5 and 6 are neuter, but there are some exceptions.
  • There are 8 tenses: present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, simple future and future progressive.
  • Conditionals and auxiliary verbs are usually expressed through an agglutinated, noninflected suffix.
  • Verbs conjugate to tense, gender, voice, number, aspect, and mood.
  • Adjectives agree with nouns number, case and gender
  • Adverbs can be formed from adjectives or nouns, and do not agree with nouns
  • A fairly complex phonology, with consonants regularly devoicing and palatalising depending on their environments, as well as an ablaut system that is triggered by inflections
Sample of Legim[view] Nartá erelünt arærēr, annōdrǣdēr, kölċēr té jölinacökēr. Kaḥ aenulurlu ża Aoḥtér hōllográjo vejnyo jédzvünt. / / "Kynéj erjar ċíkēr té aenar ajṡörü qüvrü zyó żar ēgr jiḥtr té arárōd járior erjät läterytr ḷár rultætit jitāor?" hōllagrajl hvytäntð "För ḳyṡĝor ḳoḍránánáj rér rautrar vræræ jærīj, rér avþili jariöri najiḥtüni, rér żan...[view all texts]
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Sound samples in Legim
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Komé álæġkonno ullëro zēuðúnt Té kogarr st aenrið lyokonnäð ĝiáżúru Vræræ vörīj, ḳaċüḍálliáḥú Zyó...
Today I lost my homeland And now I'm wandering under a foreign sky So many thoughts, I can't hide ...
Kívojá oijinör ḳaqëröþént krnérü. Kiværé ïṡuárrok täka roð roḥ hratādän, té hratr täka roð roḥ ïṡuar...
You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that w...
Navajólð nrejitrið lið ōðorja saqqælént Tka ðynnrið cëðanrae ṡóqǣrü fērinär kyánnont Kerü óuaḥ kōż...
We were born at night when the she-wolf whelped, In the morning, to lion's deafening roar, they nam...
Ravażinéo ḷókǣdénit, iviðænéo jonþǣdénit
Mistakes were made, people were shot.
Ekrä jolinar żar ġötūll fryḳṡarar orṡ ċíðal fryḳṡarar
It is better to have a broken bone than a broken reputation.
Víuð rér ḥeṡ leḍænnið ḥesütaerí jolin frennräroj
I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.
Language family relationships
[edit] [view] Edyniar (Edyn)Spoken in North-West Legimkonn (historic region of Legim speakers). Features nasalised vowels before nasal consonants, as well as a uvular pronunciation of the rhotic in all positions.
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental		DentalAlveolarPost-
Alveolar		Alveolo-
palatal		PalatalLabio-
velar		VelarUvularPharyngealGlottalOther
Nasal m m: [mˤ]1 [mʲ]2 [m̥]3 [ɱ]4 [ɱ̥]5   n n: [n̥]6     [ɲ]7 [ɲ̥]8   [ŋ]9 [ŋ̥]10 [ɴ]11 [ɴ̥]12      
Plosive p [pʼ]13 p: [pʲ]14 b b: [bˤ]15 [bʲ]16     t [tʼ]17 t: [tʲ]18 d d: [dˤ]19 [dʲ]20     [c]21 [ɟ]22   k [kʼ]23 k: g g: q q: ɢ ɢ:      
Fricative ɸ ɸ: β β: f [fˤ]24 [fʲ]25 v [vˤ]26 [vʲ]27 θ θ: [θˤ]28 [θʲ]29 ð ð: [ðˤ]30 [ðʲ]31 s s: [sˤ]32 [sʲ]33 z z: [zˤ]34 [zʲ]35 ʃ ʃ: [ʃˤ]36 ʒ ʒ: [ʒˤ]37 [ɕ]38 [ʑ]39 [ç]40 [ʝ]41   x x: ɣ ɣ: χ χ: ʁ ʁ: ħ ħ: [ʕ]42 h  
Affricate       t͡s [t͡sʼ]43 t͡s: [t͡sʲ]44 d͡z d͡z: [d͡zˤ]45 [d͡zʲ]46 t͡ʃ [t͡ʃʼ]47 t͡ʃ: d͡ʒ d͡ʒ: [d͡ʒˤ]48 [t͡ɕ]49 [d͡ʑ]50 c͡ç ɟ͡ʝ           [t͡ɬ]51
Lateral approximant       l [l̥]52     [ʎ]53 [ʎ̥]54           ɫ [ɫ̥]55
Lateral fricative       ɬ                  
Approximant             j j: j̥ [ʍ]56 w         [ɥ]57 [ɥ̥]58
Trill       r r: [rˤ]59 [rʲ]60 [r̥]61                  
  1. before back vowels, allophone of /m/
  2. before front vowels, allophone of /m/
  3. Adjacent to voiceless phonemes and finally, allophone of /m/
  4. adjacent to v, allophone of /m/
  5. adjacent to f, allophone of /m/
  6. Adjacent to a voiceless phoneme and finally, allophone of /n/
  7. before front vowels, allophone of /n/
  8. Before j or a front vowel, allophone of /n/
  9. Before g, allophone of /n/
  10. Before k, allophone of /ŋ/
  11. before back vowels and adjacent to uvular consonants, allophone of /n/
  12. adjacent to voiceless uvular consonants, allophone of /n/
  13. before back vowels, allophone of /p/
  14. before front vowels, allophone of /p/
  15. before back vowels, allophone of /b/
  16. before front vowels, allophone of /b/
  17. before back vowels, allophone of /t/
  18. before front vowels, allophone of /t/
  19. before back vowels, allophone of /d/
  20. before front vowels, allophone of /d/
  21. before front vowels, allophone of /k/
  22. Before j or a front vowel, allophone of /g:/
  23. word-finally, allophone of /k/
  24. before back vowels, allophone of /f/
  25. before front vowels, allophone of /f/
  26. before back vowels, allophone of /v/
  27. before front vowels, allophone of /v/
  28. before back vowels, allophone of /θ/
  29. before front vowels, allophone of /θ/
  30. before back vowels, allophone of /ð/
  31. before front vowels, allophone of /ð/
  32. before back vowels, allophone of /s/
  33. before front vowels, allophone of /s/
  34. before back vowels, allophone of /z/
  35. before front vowels, allophone of /z/
  36. before back vowels, allophone of /ʃ/
  37. before back vowels, allophone of /ʒ/
  38. Before j or a front vowel, allophone of /ʃ/
  39. Before j or a front vowel, allophone of /ʒ/
  40. Before j or a front vowel, allophone of /χ/
  41. Before j or a front vowel
  42. between vowels, allophone of /ħ/
  43. before back vowels, allophone of /t͡s/
  44. before front vowels, allophone of /t͡s/
  45. before back vowels, allophone of /d͡z/
  46. before front vowels, allophone of /d͡z/
  47. before back vowels, allophone of /t͡ʃ/
  48. before back vowels, allophone of /d͡ʒ/
  49. Before j or a front vowel, allophone of /t͡ʃ/
  50. Before j or a front vowel, allophone of /d͡ʒ/
  51. word-finally, allophone of /ɬ/
  52. Adjacent to a voiceless phoneme and finally, allophone of /l/
  53. before front vowels, allophone of /l/
  54. Before j or a front vowel, adjacent to voiceless consonant, allophone of /l/
  55. Adjacent to a voiceless phoneme and finally, allophone of /ɫ/
  56. allophone of /w/
  57. allophone of /w/
  58. allophone of /w/
  59. before back vowels, allophone of /r/
  60. before front vowels, allophone of /r/
  61. Adjacent to a voiceless phoneme and finally, allophone of /r/
VowelsFrontNear-
front		CentralNear-
back		Back
Close i i: y [y:]1   ɨ   ɯ [ɯ:]2 u u:
Near-close   ɪ   ʊ  
Close-mid e ø [ø:]3       ɤ [ɤ:]4 o
Mid     ə    
Open-mid ɛ ɛ:       ɔ ɔ:
Near-open æ [æ:]5        
Open     ä ä:   ɑ [ɑ:]6
Polyphthongs æy øy aʊ əʊ əɪ aɪ
  1. allophone of /u:/
  2. allophone of /i:/
  3. allophone of /ɔ:/
  4. allophone of /ɛ:/
  5. allophone of /ä:/
  6. allophone of /ä:/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Legim. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 LegimOrthography [edit]
Aa/ä/Āā/ä:/Áá/ɑ/Ââ[ɑ:]Ææ/æ/Ǣǣ[æ:]Ää/ə/Bb/b/Cc/t͡s/Ċċ/t͡ʃ/
Dd/d/Ḍḍ/d͡z/Ðð/ð/Ee/e/Éé/ɛ/Ēē/ɛ:/Ëë/ɤ/Êê[ɤ:]Ff/f/FF ff/ɸ:/
Gg/g/Ġġ/ɣ/Ĝĝ/d͡ʒ/Hh/h/Ḥḥ/ħ/Ii/ɪ/Íí/i/Īī/i:/Ïï/ɯ/Îî[ɯ:]
Jj/j/Kk/k/Ḳḳ/x/Ll/l/, [l̥]1Ḷḷ/ɫ/LL ll/ɬ/, [ɫ̥]2Mm/m/Nn/n/Ṇṇ[ŋ]3Oo/o/
Óó/ɔ/Ōō/ɔ:/Öö/ø/Ôô[ø:]Pp/p/Qq/q/Q̇ q̇/χ/Rr/r/Ss/s/Ṡṡ/ʃ/
Tt/t/Þþ/θ/Uu/ʊ/Úú/u/Ūū/u:/Üü/y/Ûû[y:]Vv/v/VV vv/β:/Xx/ɢ/
Ẋẋ/ʁ/Yy/ɨ/Zz/z/Żż/ʒ/AI ai/aɪ/AO ao/əʊ/AÜ aü/æy/AU au/aʊ/ĊĊ ċċ/t͡ʃ:/DD dd/d:/
EÜ eü/øy/GG gg/g:/GJ gj/ɟ͡ʝ/HF hf/ɸ/HJ hj/j̥/HM hm[m̥]4HN hn[n̥]5HV hv/β/ḤḤ ḥḥ/ħ:/KK kk/k:/
KJ kj/c͡ç/NN nn/n:/QQ qq/q:/RR rr/r:/SS ss/s:/AE ae/əɪ/ṠṠ ṡṡ/ʃ:/TT tt/t:/Ww/w/XX xx/ɢ:/
ZZ zz/z:/ÞÞ þþ/θ:/BB bb/b:/CC cc/t͡s:/Ḋḋ/d͡z/ḌḌ ḍḍ/d͡z:/ĜĜ ĝĝ/d͡ʒ:/ĠĠ ġġ/ɣ:/JJ jj/j:/ḲḲ ḳḳ/x:/
MM mm/m:/PP pp/p:/Q̇Q̇ q̇q̇/χ:/ẊẊ ẋẋ/ʁ:/ŻŻ żż/ʒ:/ÐÐ ðð/ð:/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
  1. Adjacent to a voiceless phoneme and finally
  2. Adjacent to a voiceless phoneme and finally
  3. Before g
  4. Adjacent to voiceless phonemes and finally
  5. Adjacent to a voiceless phoneme and finally
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Typological information for Legim

GendersMasculine/Feminine/Neuter
Noun numbersSingular/Plural
Number of nominal casesEight cases or more
Number of pronominal casesEight cases or more
Primary writing systemLatin (Extended)

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