Midvaran [MVR]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Midvaran
Midvaran is the official form of the language of most major nations on the continent of Midvara, including Latoria, Neresa, and Maril. Standard Midvaran is taught in schools throughout the continent, and it is also used in media and political discourse. However, in everyday speech, people generally speak various dialects of Midvaran that are often mutually unintelligible.
Sample of Midvaran[view] chen se thva citrata, deshas se gritear estenerata.
If you want peace, prepare for war[view all texts]
If you want peace, prepare for war[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | b | t tʰ | d | k kʰ | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]1 | β | [θ]2 | s | z | ʃ | [x]3 | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | [w]4 | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /pʰ/
- allophone of /tʰ/
- allophone of /kʰ/
- allophone of /β/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Mid | [ə]3 | |||||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]4 | ɞ | [ɔ]5 | |||||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Midvaran. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MidvaranOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | CH ch/kʰ/, [x] | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | EA ea/æ/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/ |
| Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | OA oa/ɞ/ | Pp/p/ | PH ph/pʰ/, [ɸ] | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ |
| SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/tʰ/, [θ] | TS ts/t͡s/ | TSH tsh/t͡ʃ/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/β/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
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