Litanian [LITN]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Litanian
Litanian is accepted as a common tongue among most inhabitants of the Seven Worlds, though it derived from the Land of Light. Only Litanian is spoken in Skyther as it is a Bubble of the Land of Light (unlike other Bubbles---some of which speak entirely other languages).
Sample of Litanian[view] Mi chikeli ze avoyin; mi sivenya ze ila.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.[view all texts]
The child is grown, the dream is gone.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | [b̪]2 | t | d | c | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]3 | f | v | θ | s | ʃ | ʒ | [ʑ]4 | [ʝ]5 | h | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | [ʈ͡ʂ]6 | [ɖ͡ʐ]7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | [ʎ]8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]9 | ɽ | ||||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /ʒ/
- allophone of /j/
- allophone of /t͡ʃ/
- allophone of /d͡ʒ/
- allophone of /j/
- allophone of /ɽ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | [y] | [ʉ] | u | ||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | [ɵ]2 | o | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ3 | [œ] | ɔ | |||||
| Near-open | [æ]4 | |||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- can be short or long, unlike ä
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Litanian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 LitanianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/, [æ] | Bb/b/, [b̪] | CH ch/t͡ʃ/, [ʈ͡ʂ] | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/, /ɛ/1 | Ff/f/, [ɸ] | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/, [ɪ] | Jj/ʒ/, [ʑ] |
| Kk/k/ | KY ky/c/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ] | NY ny/ɲ/ | Oo/ɔ/, /o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɽ/, [ɾ] | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ |
| SHL shl/ɬ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ | Uu/u/, [ɵ], [œ], [ʉ], [y] | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/, [ʎ], [ʝ] | Zz/t͡s/ | Ÿÿ/d͡ʒ/, [ɖ͡ʐ] | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
- can be short or long, unlike ä
