Dyrel [ODY]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Dyrel
A priori language spoken in my fictional city of Dyrellion and the surrounding environment. The default morphosyntactic alignment is nominative-absolutive; the base form is accusative (or absolutive).
Sample of Dyrel[view] Resna aslalad, myrynŕy valar domyl! De susaren era.
It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.[view all texts]
It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Old Dyrel[view] About DyrelLanguage family for the Dyrel dialects.
[view] Rademanla (Cliffhaven)The dialect of Dyrel spoken by immigrants or refugees from Xictor, most of whom live in the district of Rademanla (Cliffhaven) in Dyrellion.
[view] os Dyrellí (High Dyrel)High Dyrel.
[view] Dyrel (Low Dyrel)Low Dyrel. Eliminates diphthongs, frequently uses short forms, a few phonetic differences.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Plosive | p | [t]1 | d | |||||
| Fricative | v | s | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | [ʎ]2 | ||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | [j]3 | ||||||
- word-final, allophone of /d/
- coalescence of geminate /l/, allophone of /l/
- With no onset, before a vowel in words of 4+ syllables (lowers syllable count), allophone of /i/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | ɵ | ||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ | ɵɪ | eɪ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Dyrel. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 DyrelOrthography | |||||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Dd/d/, [t]1 | Ee/e/ | Ii/i/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɵ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/ɪ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||||||
- word-final
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