Neoastran [NEOS]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersNeoastran is spoken by a population of around 9,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Neoastran
Neoastran (Or astraki, meaning "Belonging to the Stars") is the language of the Church in Borandra. It is a modern approximation of the language of the celestials and dragons of ancient times.
The design of astraki hasn't been fully set in stone as of right now, but I knew when I started out that I wanted to create speech without any labial sounds to reflect the fact that the ancient celestial beings (phoenixians) had beaks rather than lips. I also added in a dental click as part of the language to approximate a beak clicking.
The design of astraki hasn't been fully set in stone as of right now, but I knew when I started out that I wanted to create speech without any labial sounds to reflect the fact that the ancient celestial beings (phoenixians) had beaks rather than lips. I also added in a dental click as part of the language to approximate a beak clicking.
Sample of NeoastranCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | n | ɲ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | θ | s | ʃ | [ç]1 | x | h | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||
| Trill | [r]2 | |||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||
| Click | ǀ | |||||||||||
- when it starts a word, allophone of /x/
- When following plosive, allophone of /ɾ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | |||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | e1 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ʌ ʌ: | ||||
| Open | a a: | ɒ ɒ: | ||||
| Polyphthongs | eɪ |
- Sound is only produced as part of the dipthong /eɪ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Neoastran. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NeoastranOrthography | ||||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | */ǀ/ | Aa/a/ | A~ a~/a:/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EY ey/eɪ/ | E~ e~/ɛ:/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ |
| Ii/ɪ/ | Íí/i/ | Í~ í~/i:/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/, /k/ | Ll/l/ | Nn/n/ | Ññ/ɲ/ | Oo/ɒ/ | O~ o~/ɒ:/ | Rr/ɾ/, [r]1 |
| Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Uu/ʌ/ | U~ u~/ʌ:/ | Xx/x/, [ç]2 | Yy/j/ | Θθ/θ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
- When following plosive
- when it starts a word
