Norvi [NSVI]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Norvi
Norvi is the language spoken by Norvians.
Featuring:
- verb initial word order
- balanced nonary
- a ton of verb conjugations and cases
- evidentiality
Featuring:
- verb initial word order
- balanced nonary
- a ton of verb conjugations and cases
- evidentiality
Language family relationships
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
Plosive | p | t | d | k | ||||||||||
Fricative | ʂ | ʐ | [ç]1 | x | ɣ | h | ||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||
Trill | r r̥ | |||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- before front vowels, allophone of /x/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i i: | y y: | [ɨ]1 [ɨ:]2 | u u: | ||||
Near-close | ɪ ɪ: | |||||||
Close-mid | [ø̞:]3 [ø̞]4 | |||||||
Mid | e̞ e̞: | ə ə: | o̞ o̞: | |||||
Open | a a: | ɑ ɑ: |
- allophone of /ɪ/
- allophone of /ɪ:/
- allophone of /ə:/
- allophone of /ə/
Syllable StructureSyllable structure is (C)V(C).
Exceptions are initial sp sk pl kl pj kj
Exceptions are initial sp sk pl kl pj kj
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Norvi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
NorviOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
! ! iñ // | # # ëlää // | $ $ ulnë // | 1 1 il // | 2 2 ulë // | 3 3 äälë // | 4 4 ellë // | @ @ unli // | a a a /ɑ/ | ä ä /a/ |
c c cy [ç]1 | d d /d/ | ë ë ë /ə/, [ø̞] | e e /e̞/ | ëë ëë /ə:/, [ø̞:] | ee ee /e̞:/ | g g gi /ɣ/ | h h hë /h/ | i i /i/ | ï ï /ɪ/, [ɨ] |
ïï ïï /ɪ:/, [ɨ:] | j j ju /j/ | k k kai /k/ | l l lë /l/ | m m më /m/ | n n në /n/ | ō ō linki // | oo oo /o̞:/ | p p pë /p/ | q q ëñ /ŋ/ |
r r /ɾ/ | rh rh rho /r̥/ | r̃ r̃ /r/ | s s /ʂ/ | t t të /t/ | u u una /u/ | v v /ʋ/ | x x xë /x/ | y y /y/ | z z ja /ʐ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- before front vowels