Nelaian [NLS]
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Nelaian
Nélaqiz [nelaʔis]*
Nélaqiz [nelaʔis]*
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nelaian
Nélaqiz has ...
... OSV sentence structure (SOV only with questions)
... agglutinative verbs
... nominative, accusative, dative and genitive cases
... postpositional cases ()
... 6 pronominal cases (Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive, Sociative, Abessive)
... 12 verb suffixes in total (3 tenses, 6 aspects and 3 valence suffixes)
... subject / object marking in the verb
... OSV sentence structure (SOV only with questions)
... agglutinative verbs
... nominative, accusative, dative and genitive cases
... postpositional cases ()
... 6 pronominal cases (Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive, Sociative, Abessive)
... 12 verb suffixes in total (3 tenses, 6 aspects and 3 valence suffixes)
... subject / object marking in the verb
Sample of Nelaian[view] Jokanezí al kedjaloma, Chon Znöö.
You know nothing, Jon Snow.[view all texts]
You know nothing, Jon Snow.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k | g | ʔ1 | |||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ç | x | h | |||||
Affricate | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- changed from /q/ to /ʔ/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i i: | y y: | ɨ ɨ: | [ɯ]1 [ɯ:]2 | u u: | |
Close-mid | e e: | ø ø: | o o: | |||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ʌ ʌ: | ||||
Open | a a: |
Polyphthongs | aɪ | ɛɪ | oǐ |
- allophone of /ɨ/
- allophone of /ɨ:/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nelaian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
NelaianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa/a/ | Ää/ɛɪ/ | AA aa/a:/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/d͡ʒ/1 | Dd/d/ | Éé/e/ | Ee/ɛ/ | ÉÉ éé/e:/ | EE ee/ɛ:/ |
Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GJ gj/ɟ/ | Hh/h/ | Íí/aɪ/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NJ nj/ɲ/ | Öö/ʌ/ | Oo/o/ | Óó/ø/ | OI oi/oǐ/ | ÖÖ öö/ʌ:/ | OO oo/o:/ | ÓÓ óó/ø:/ |
Pp/p/ | Qq/ʔ/2 | Rr/r/, /ɾ/ | Ss/z/ | SH sh/ʒ/ | Tt/t/ | TJ tj/c/ | Uu/u/ | Üü/ɨ/, [ɯ] | UU uu/u:/ |
ÜÜ üü/ɨ:/, [ɯ:] | Ww/v/ | Xx/x/ | XJ xj/ç/ | Yy/y/ | YY yy/y:/ | Zz/s/ | ZH zh/ʃ/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- ligature of dh
- changed from /q/ to /ʔ/