Cantanian [NCT]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Cantanian
Cantanian is an Ibero-Romance language with great influence from Catalan, and the Occitano-Romance languages in Spain. Similar to most romance languages, Cantanian has lost all cases, spare for pronoun inflexion and is SVO language using the latin alphabet.
Sample of Cantanian[view] Gritau e gritau, peré nadiú m'escuchó
I yelled and yelled, but nobody heard me. [view all texts]
I yelled and yelled, but nobody heard me. [view all texts]
Sound samples in Cantanian
Some sound samples of Cantanian. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Gritau e gritau, peré nadiú m'escuchó
I yelled and yelled, but nobody heard me.
I yelled and yelled, but nobody heard me.
Penso, lugo existo
I think, therefore, I am.
I think, therefore, I am.
Yeu pharlo el canteyón
I speak English
I speak English
Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷ Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Iberian
⤷ Cantanian
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷ Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Iberian
⤷ Cantanian
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | [ɱ]1 | n | [ɳ]2 | [ɲ]3 | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | [q]4 | |||||||||||||
Fricative | ɸʰ | f | v | θ | s | z | ʃ | x | h | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s5 | t͡ʃ | ||||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Blends | kw | ks |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /k/
- occurs only in plural masculine nouns
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||
Open | a a: |
Polyphthongs | aʊ | eɪ | aɪ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Cantanian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
CantanianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/, /θ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/v/, /f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
Jj/x/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ɱ], [ɳ] | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | PH ph/ɸʰ/ | Qq[q] | Rr/ɾ/ |
RR rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/b/ | Xx/ks/ | Yy/ʎ/ | Zz/z/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |