Chara [LTU]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersChara is spoken by a population of around 200,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Chara
Chara, literally "chat" is a latin language spoken by between 700 000 and 800 000 persons in coastal region of Antareya province in East/ South-East of Retenia (200 km west from North-West of Iberian Peninsula).
It has the statute of regional language and it's one of the three officials languages of Antareya province.
Latsinoyu is rattached to Ibero-Romance group and was influenced by Standard Retenian, Old Antareyan and Antareyan Retenian dialect of modern Retenian and has a substrate of Southern Retenic and Taurayan
Some distinctive features:
- Verbs that come after "if" are conjugated at subjunctive (by influence from Retenian languages)
- Productive reduplication to intensify or make adverbs:
Kuru = dark / Kurukuru = very dark
Moy = soft, calm / Moymoy = very soft, calmly, softly
It has the statute of regional language and it's one of the three officials languages of Antareya province.
Latsinoyu is rattached to Ibero-Romance group and was influenced by Standard Retenian, Old Antareyan and Antareyan Retenian dialect of modern Retenian and has a substrate of Southern Retenic and Taurayan
Some distinctive features:
- Verbs that come after "if" are conjugated at subjunctive (by influence from Retenian languages)
- Productive reduplication to intensify or make adverbs:
Kuru = dark / Kurukuru = very dark
Moy = soft, calm / Moymoy = very soft, calmly, softly
Sample of Chara[view] A mutta dixia azu bexi " Oy bexi, hé zengí!" Un axu dé yandaw u bexi, boy a mutta dé few rixa.
The ant told the fish "Oi fish, leave now!" A bear ate the fish, so the ant laughed.[view all texts]
The ant told the fish "Oi fish, leave now!" A bear ate the fish, so the ant laughed.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Chara
Some sound samples of Chara. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Ajuza, u kaw ta yandan a batata san!
Help, the horse is eating the holy potato!
Help, the horse is eating the holy potato!
Xi tú boza ajutá, tú zê ajutá. I xi tú zea ajutá i tú non ajuzi, tú é un oju zu kû.
If you can help, you should help. And if you should help and you don’t help, you’re an asshole.
If you can help, you should help. And if you should help and you don’t help, you’re an asshole.
Tú ta ín ba Berazile
You are going to Brazil
You are going to Brazil
Me ajutá boze tú?
Can you help me?
Can you help me?
Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷ Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Iberian
⤷ Ibero-retenian
⤷ Chara
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷ Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Iberian
⤷ Ibero-retenian
⤷ Chara
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||
Fricative | ɸ | β | f | s | z | ɕ | ʑ | ɦ | ||||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡ɕ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | j | ɰ | |||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | ɯ | u | |||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
Near-open | ɐ | |||||||||
Open | a |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Chara. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
CharaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa/ɐ/, /a/, /ə/ | Bb/β/, /b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/ɦ/ | Ii/ɪ/, /i/ | Kk/k/ |
KH kh/ɰ/ | Ll/ʎ/, /l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ʊ/, /ɔ/ | Pp/p/, /ɸ/ | Rr/ɾ/, /r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ |
TS ts/t͡s/ | TX tx/t͡ɕ/ | Uu/u/, /ɯ/ | Vv/ʋ/ | Xx/ɕ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |