Nymph's Tongue [NMT]
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[Deactivated User] on 16 August 2017
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nymph's Tongue
Nymph's Tongue is a fusional language with VSO word order. This is an a posteriori conlang with influence from the insular celtic languages, particularly Irish and Welsh.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | [cʲ]1 | k | g | |||||||||||
Fricative | ɸ | β | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | x | ɣ | h | ||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | [t͡ʃ]2 | [d͡ʒ]3 | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
Trill | r r̥ | |||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /t͡s/
- allophone of /d͡z/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ | |||||||
Near-open | æ | |||||||||
Open | a | ɑ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nymph's Tongue. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Nymph's TongueOrthography | |||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/, [cʲ] | Dd/d/, /d͡z/, [d͡ʒ] | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Ll/l/ |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/, /t͡s/, [t͡ʃ] | Uu/u/, /ʊ/ | Ww/u/, /w/ | Yy/j/, /i/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |