Old Zelconian [OLDZK]
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Old Zelconian
Zedkon [d͡zɛ̃l̪kõ:ŋ]
Zedkon [d͡zɛ̃l̪kõ:ŋ]
Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 29 February 2020
Language type
Engineered Language (Englang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Zelconian
Zelconian was invented 1600 years ago by Pantey Zed-Koneh as a language to unite the fragmented dialects of Grantuse.
Sample of Old Zelconian[view] Deushɲob. Katodv it shdvill r. Wara xudd ɲe zekdv r.
Hello. Sorry for being late. Outside it's raining and it's cold.[view all texts]
Hello. Sorry for being late. Outside it's raining and it's cold.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeVizhik
⤷ Proto Vizhik
⤷ Arbantiir
⤷ Grantuos
⤷ Original Zelconian
⤷ Old Zelconian
⤷ Proto Vizhik
⤷ Arbantiir
⤷ Grantuos
⤷ Original Zelconian
⤷ Old Zelconian
[view] About VizhikThe largest spoken language family on Idra, thanks to Zelconian. It was spoken by ancient artic warriors, who left runes carved in rocks. Now there are many, many branches spread out across the planet Idra.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | q | ɢ | ||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | x | ɣ | ||||||
Affricate | [t͡s]1 | [d͡z]2 | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | [l]3 | ʷɭ | ||||||||||||
Flap | [ɾ]4 [ɾ̥]5 |
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /z/
- allophone of /d̪/
- allophone of /d̪/
- allophone of /t̪/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | u | ||||
Close-mid | e | ɘ | ||||
Mid | o̞ | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
Open | ɑ |
Stress informationThe last syllable receives the stress along with a vowel elongation, in theory signaling the end of a word. Zelconians understand each other even if this doesn't happen, but when someone tells you to enunciate, you know what to do. Words with an even number of syllables go short-long, while words with an odd number go long-short in terms of long and short syllables.
OtherNasalized vowels and the velar nasal appear especially in the Northern Swamp Dialect.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Zelconian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Old ZelconianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Bb/b/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/ɢ/ | GH gh/ɣ/ | Kk/q/ | Ll/ʷɭ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/ |
Pp/p/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʂ/ | Tt/t̪/ | Vv/v/ | Xx/x/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʐ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |