Lowerton [LOO]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Lowerton
A personal language, created just for the fun of constructing languages.
Has a weird phonology, concentrated around fricatives and approximants.
It distinguishes the difference between normal, long* and aspirated vowels
(*Only a part of them is)
Open syllables prohibited* (if it ends with the unpronounced 'l' it is still considered closed)
(*There are exceptions - especially verbs)
Distinguishes classes as:
Nouns - Light/Heavy; Bright/Dark; Abstract (any imaginary concepts)
Adjectives - High/Low (Depends on whether they were derived from a noun or not)
Verbs - Weak/Normal/Strong
Its grammar is almost non-existent, but it still has:
Singular/plural nouns
A descriptive form of nouns (whenever they are with an adjective)
*Verbs getting affixes, depending on their class and the class of the subject (if it is a noun) (E.g. A strong verb will get an '-aq/-jaq' suffix whenever the subject of the sentence is a heavy noun)
(*not implemented just yet)
Grammatical features it lacks:
Tenses
Any other Subject-Verb agreement
Adjective agreement
And so much more...
Practically impossible to read, because of its orthography.
Has a weird phonology, concentrated around fricatives and approximants.
It distinguishes the difference between normal, long* and aspirated vowels
(*Only a part of them is)
Open syllables prohibited* (if it ends with the unpronounced 'l' it is still considered closed)
(*There are exceptions - especially verbs)
Distinguishes classes as:
Nouns - Light/Heavy; Bright/Dark; Abstract (any imaginary concepts)
Adjectives - High/Low (Depends on whether they were derived from a noun or not)
Verbs - Weak/Normal/Strong
Its grammar is almost non-existent, but it still has:
Singular/plural nouns
A descriptive form of nouns (whenever they are with an adjective)
*Verbs getting affixes, depending on their class and the class of the subject (if it is a noun) (E.g. A strong verb will get an '-aq/-jaq' suffix whenever the subject of the sentence is a heavy noun)
(*not implemented just yet)
Grammatical features it lacks:
Tenses
Any other Subject-Verb agreement
Adjective agreement
And so much more...
Practically impossible to read, because of its orthography.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
Plosive | [p]1 | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
Fricative | [f]2 | v | [θ]3 | ð | s: | z | ʃ | ʒ | [x]4 | ɣ | ||||
Affricate | t̪͡θ | [d̪͡ð]5 | t͡s [t͡sʰ]6 | [d͡z]7 | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | ɹ | w |
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /v/
- allophone of /ð/
- allophone of /ɣ/
- allophone of /t̪͡θ/
- allophone of /t͡s/
- allophone of /t͡s/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i i: iʰ | ɯ ɯʰ | u u: uʰ | |||
Close-mid | e e: eʰ | ø øʰ | o oʰ | |||
Mid | ə əʰ | |||||
Open | a a: aʰ | ɒ ɒ: ɒʰ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Lowerton. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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3 3ó /z/ | Áá/a:/ | Aa á3i /a/ | Ää/aʰ/ | Bb bó /b/ | Cc cí /ʃ/ | Çç çí /t͡ʃ/ | Dd dó /d/ | Éé/e:/ | Ëë/eʰ/ |
Ee ér /e/ | Gg gó /d͡ʒ/ | Hh hó /g/ | Ii o3í /i/ | Íí/i:/ | Ïï/iʰ/ | Jj jó /ʒ/ | Kk kí /k/ | Ll éla // | Nn ní /t͡s/ |
Oo ój /ɒ/ | Óó/ɒ:/ | Öö/ɒʰ/ | Ôô opó /o/ | Qq qó /ɣ/ | Rr ró /ɹ/ | Ss só /s:/ | Tt tó /t/ | Üü/uʰ/ | Úú/u:/ |
Uu úgi /u/ | Vv vó /v/ | Ww wá /w/ | Xx xó /ʋ/ | Ÿÿ/ɯʰ/ | Yy wég /ɯ/ | Ðð ðá /t̪͡θ/ | Øø óe3 /ø/ | Þþ þó /ð/ | Ǝǝ eró /ə/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |