Nevotak [NVT]
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Nevotak
Nefotak [ne̞fo̞tak]*
Nefotak [ne̞fo̞tak]*
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nevotak
Nevotak was a language of The 8th World( http://conworld.wikia.com/wiki/The_8th_world ), it was spoken by some ethnic groups of the two-horned long-longs of the Second Civilization of The 8th World and was served as the lingua franca of the Second Civilization.
Two-horned long-longs were divided into multiple ethnic groups(rather than true species) like human beings, so they have different cultures and different languages like human beings.
as the two-horned long-longs had become extinct long before human beings appeared in the 8th World, Nevotak is extinct now.
Sakawi MKII has borrowed many words from Nevotak, and many Nevotak words entered Lonmai Luna through Sakawi MKII.
Linguistic introduction:
Nevotak is an isolating language with SVO as the basic word order; it has serial verb construction and a generally left-branching order; besides, words in Nevotak are often highly polysemous and the meanings can change according to context.
Two-horned long-longs were divided into multiple ethnic groups(rather than true species) like human beings, so they have different cultures and different languages like human beings.
as the two-horned long-longs had become extinct long before human beings appeared in the 8th World, Nevotak is extinct now.
Sakawi MKII has borrowed many words from Nevotak, and many Nevotak words entered Lonmai Luna through Sakawi MKII.
Linguistic introduction:
Nevotak is an isolating language with SVO as the basic word order; it has serial verb construction and a generally left-branching order; besides, words in Nevotak are often highly polysemous and the meanings can change according to context.
Language family relationships
Language treeNevotak
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | b | t | d | k | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | z | ʒ | h | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | [d͡ʒ]1 | |||||||||||||
Lateral flap | ɺ | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
- allophone of /ʒ/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u | ||
Close-mid | o: | |||
Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||
Open | a | ɑ: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nevotak. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
NevotakOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa/a/ | AA aa/ɑ:/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e̞/ | Ff/f/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Kk/k/ | Mm/m/ |
Nn/n/ | Oo/o̞/ | OO oo/o:/ | Rr/ɺ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TZ tz/t͡s/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |