Licenian [LITS]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersLicenian is spoken in Licenia.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Licenian
Language for the unnamed republic from Power Play (1978). A priori, but with lots of IE vocab. Pretty basic grammar, nothing much exciting.
-Common/Neuter genders
-SOV
-Zero-copula in the Distant Past and Past tenses
-6 Cases: Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive, Instrumental-Comitative and Locative, with different forms for common and neuter.
-Singular/Plural/Collective
-Adjectives agree with the noun in number and case, but not in Neuter nouns.
-Verbs conjugate for mood, tense, voice and person.
-The Subjunctive and Optative are being merged in the speech of most dialects, same with the Middle and Passive.
Tenses: Distant Past, Past, Present
Moods: Indicative, Subjunctive, Interrogative, Imperative, Optative and Intimidative.
Aspects formed through periphrastic constructions
-Written in the Latin script nowadays.
-Follows the German convention of capitalising all nouns.
-Common/Neuter genders
-SOV
-Zero-copula in the Distant Past and Past tenses
-6 Cases: Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive, Instrumental-Comitative and Locative, with different forms for common and neuter.
-Singular/Plural/Collective
-Adjectives agree with the noun in number and case, but not in Neuter nouns.
-Verbs conjugate for mood, tense, voice and person.
-The Subjunctive and Optative are being merged in the speech of most dialects, same with the Middle and Passive.
Tenses: Distant Past, Past, Present
Moods: Indicative, Subjunctive, Interrogative, Imperative, Optative and Intimidative.
Aspects formed through periphrastic constructions
-Written in the Latin script nowadays.
-Follows the German convention of capitalising all nouns.
Sample of Licenian[view] PLACEHOLDER
Someone's havin' doubts, huh? Hell, I'm just trying to keep this thing interesting. You can't write me off like that. You're just a voice, pal! YOU DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT RACING![view all texts]
Someone's havin' doubts, huh? Hell, I'm just trying to keep this thing interesting. You can't write me off like that. You're just a voice, pal! YOU DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT RACING![view all texts]
Language family relationships
[edit] [view] Kalseaun a Touren (Mountain Dialect)Conservative dialect spoken in the central regions. Of value to historical linguists, since less Indo-European borrowings, useful to reconstruct Old and Proto-Licenian.
[edit] [view] Murań (Purist Licenian )A hyper-formal written standard favoured by some nationalist groups that replaces many German and English borrowings with calques. Is only used by the news network of a nationalist party, whose unpopularity can be attributed to the fact that most Licenians can't understand them.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m [m:]1 | n [n:]2 | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | k | g | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | θ | [ð]3 | s | z | ʃ | ç | [x]4 | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s̪ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | ʀ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | d̪ʀ | θʀ | t̪ʀ |
- intervocalically , allophone of /m/
- intervocalically , allophone of /n/
- word-finally, allophone of /θ/
- word-finally, allophone of /h/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||
| Open-mid | ɔ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ie | eɔ |
Otherɔ is spelt au word-finally and u is ou between 2 consonants.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Licenian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 LicenianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s̪/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ńń/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | EAU eau/eɔ/ | Rr/ʀ/ | Ìì/ɪ/ | Šš/ʃ/ | IE ie/ie/ | Öö/ø/ | Ss/s/ |
| Òò/ɔ/ | Tt/t̪/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/θ/ | Yy/ç/ | Ww/w/ | Zz/z/ | DR dr/d̪ʀ/ | TR tr/t̪ʀ/ | VR vr/θʀ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
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