Old Gristiani [OGL]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Gristiani
The Gristiani were scholars, and writing was a major part of maintaining the cultural texts of the old races. They needed a language which could efficiently be used to translate old race texts. They came up with Old Gristiani. This language has many distinguishing features:
*Numerous loan words from other languages.
*Relatively simple grammar; verbs have 3 moods, 3 tenses with 3 aspects, and 6 persons.
*Balanced array of consonants, with primarily mid accented vowels.
*Numerous markers to mark clauses, prepositions, conjunctions, and adverbial phrases.
*Numerous loan words from other languages.
*Relatively simple grammar; verbs have 3 moods, 3 tenses with 3 aspects, and 6 persons.
*Balanced array of consonants, with primarily mid accented vowels.
*Numerous markers to mark clauses, prepositions, conjunctions, and adverbial phrases.
Language family relationships
Language treeAlgonic
⤷ Proto-Algonic
⤷ Northern Algonic
⤷ Proto-Northern Algonic
⤷ Holgic
⤷ Old Gristiani
⤷ Proto-Algonic
⤷ Northern Algonic
⤷ Proto-Northern Algonic
⤷ Holgic
⤷ Old Gristiani
[view] About AlgonicGroup of languages spoken in Algonia. In the early years, tribes roamed the vast plains and scaled the tall mountains eventually settling in suitable areas. The Lizard people in the east found refuge in the low swamp lands. The Nordic peoples found r...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | ɱ | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p̬ | b | t̬ | d | k k̬ | g | ʔ | |||||||||
Fricative | v | θ | s | |||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s̬ | |||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ̬ | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
Trill | ʀ |
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | y | ɨ̪͆ | ||||||
Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
Close-mid | ø̪͆ | o | ||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||
Near-open | æ̪͆ | |||||||
Open | a |
Stress informationIn this language, stress on the first vowel determines the gender of nouns. There are 10 distinct genders of nouns: Strong & Weak Masculine (ö,o), Strong & Weak Feminine (ä,a), and Strong & Weak Neuter (ë,e), and the Personal Nouns (ïo,ïa)
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Gristiani. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Old GristianiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Ää/æ̪͆/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k̬/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ëë/æ̪͆/ | Ff/v/ | Gg/g/ |
Hh/ʔ/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Ïï/ɨ̪͆/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/ɬ̬/ | Mm/ɱ/ | Nn/n/ | Ṅṅ/ŋ/ |
Oo/o/ | Öö/ø̪͆/ | Pp/p̬/ | RH rh/ʀ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t̬/ | Yy/y/ | Zz/t͡s̬/ | Þþ/θ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |