Khunul [ODZE]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Khunul
PHONOLOGY CHANGE, DICTIONARY UNDER MAINTENANCE
Khunul, also known as Old Dze, was spoken by [lore revision, please wait].
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Prominent features:
- The lack of pronouns as independent words, functioning instead as prefixes in a system of polypersonal agreement.
- Polysynthetic grammar (¡33 cases, 5 tenses, 7 aspects and 12 moods!).
- Ergativity in nouns.
- B4 Evidentiality.
- Animacy.
- Transitivity in verbs.
- A whole metric tonne of derivational suffixes.
- Neat little alphabet I have not worked on beyond what kind it is.
Please ignore the grammar tables until September 2024, I'll have them fixed by then.
This is the 9th iteration of this language since 2020.
Khunul, also known as Old Dze, was spoken by [lore revision, please wait].
Prominent features:
- The lack of pronouns as independent words, functioning instead as prefixes in a system of polypersonal agreement.
- Polysynthetic grammar (¡33 cases, 5 tenses, 7 aspects and 12 moods!).
- Ergativity in nouns.
- B4 Evidentiality.
- Animacy.
- Transitivity in verbs.
- A whole metric tonne of derivational suffixes.
- Neat little alphabet I have not worked on beyond what kind it is.
Please ignore the grammar tables until September 2024, I'll have them fixed by then.
This is the 9th iteration of this language since 2020.
Language family relationships
Language treeDzenic
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Proto-Dzenic
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Proto-Dze-Nywan
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Khunul
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Proto-Dzenic⤷
Proto-Dze-Nywan⤷
Khunul[view] About DzenicWIP.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | ||||||||
| Nasal | m̥ | m | n̥ | n | ŋ̊ | ŋ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ pʰ | t tʼ tʰ | k kʼ kʰ | q qʼ qʰ | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | s sʼ sʰ | ç çʼ çʰ | x xʼ xʰ | χ χʼ χʰ | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ t͡sʰ | d͡z | t͡ɬ t͡ɬʼ t͡ɬʰ | d͡ɮ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ ɬʼ ɬʰ | ɮ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | ɨ ɨ: | u u: [u̥]1 | |||
| Close-mid | e e: | |||||
| Open-mid | ɔ ɔ: | |||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
- Preceding affixes, allophone of /u/
Syllable StructureCCCVCC, CCVCC, CCVC, CVCVC, CVC, CV, VCC.
Stress informationFirst Syllable.
OtherGeminate consonants exist allophonically when the phoneme at the end of a word and the start of the suffix match.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Khunul. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| KhunulOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| ˮ/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | AA aa/a:/ | Çç/ç/ | Ç̇ ç̇/çʰ/ | Çʻ çʻ/çʼ/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | Ee/e/ | EE ee/e:/ | Hh/h/ |
| Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ḳḳ/kʰ/ | Kʻ kʻ/kʼ/ | Ll/ɮ/ | Łł/ɬ/ | Ł̣ ł̣/ɬʰ/ | Łʻ łʻ/ɬʼ/ |
| Mm/m/ | Ḿḿ/m̥/ | Nn/n/ | Ńń/n̥/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | Ŋ́ ŋ́/ŋ̊/ | Oo/ɔ/ | OO oo/ɔ:/ | Pp/p/ | Ṗṗ/pʰ/ |
| Pʻ pʻ/pʼ/ | Qq/q/ | Q̇ q̇/qʰ/ | Qʻ qʻ/qʼ/ | Ss/s/ | Ṡṡ/sʰ/ | Sʻ sʻ/sʼ/ | Tt/t/ | Ṭṭ/tʰ/ | Tʻ tʻ/tʼ/ |
| TL tl/d͡ɮ/ | TŁ tł/t͡ɬ/ | TŁ̣ tł̣/t͡ɬʰ/ | TŁʻ tłʻ/t͡ɬʼ/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | TṠ tṡ/t͡sʰ/ | TSʻ tsʻ/t͡sʼ/ | Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ | Ww/w/ |
| Xx/x/ | Ẋẋ/xʰ/ | Xʻ xʻ/xʼ/ | X̣ x̣/χ/ | X̱ x̱/χʰ/ | X̣ʻ x̣ʻ/χʼ/ | Yy/ɨ/ | YY yy/ɨ:/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
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