Aparatan [MRQ]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Aparatan
The mother tongue spoken in the East Aparatan Steppe and Desert by the nomads and their descendants from roughly 400 IEK until around 500 IUK.
Sample of Aparatan[view] thātāthaka ʔeqeta kithuwata meriza
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. / The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed. / It is so ordered.[view all texts]
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. / The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed. / It is so ordered.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About AparatanThe Aparatan language family includes Aparatan and its daughter languages: Avrandalic and Almacuedan.
[edit] [view] Amerqatem Ap'aras (Vulgar Aparatan)The vulgar or colloquial form of Aparatan spoken by the common folk, this version mostly as artificially standardized c. 300 IEK, in contrast to Classical Aparatan, the version presented here of which is standardize 104 IEK. The particular version presented here represents that spoken in the City of Bywater close enough to the divergence of Aparatan's daughter tongues to be useful in deriving them.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p pʼ pʷ | t tʼ tʷ | k kʼ kʷ | q qʼ qʷ | ʔ1 | |||||||||||||||
Fricative | v | θ | s | z | ʃ | x | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | (l) | |||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
- Only appears at front of otherwise null-onset words
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | e e: | |||
Open | a a: |
Polyphthongs | aɪ1 |
- Only before /j/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Aparatan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
AparatanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Kk/k/ | K' k' k'āma /kʼ/ | KH kh khaneqātha /x/ | Ll ʔAlītha /l/1 | Mm makātha /m/ | Nn nitātha /n/ | Pp/p/ | P' p' p'īrūtha /pʼ/ | Qq/q/ | Q' q' q'ūre /qʼ/ | Rr rāthe /r/ |
Ss sīstiza /s/ | SH sh shiteza /ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | T' t' t'ūveza /tʼ/ | TH th thanātha /θ/ | Vv varānta /v/ | Ww wāwātha /w/ | Yy yiza /j/ | Zz zītwāneza /z/ | ʔ ʔazīkhata /ʔ/2 | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- loan words only
- Only appears at front of otherwise null-onset words
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