Old Terminian [OTMN]
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+ shared with: Terminian Empire
+ shared with: Terminian Empire
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Terminian
The predecessor to Middle Terminian and modern Terminian , as well as some other languages. Descended from Wa Ñi.
Language family relationships
Language treeNgerupic
⤷ Wa Ñi
⤷ Termic
⤷ Old Terminian
⤷ Wa Ñi
⤷ Termic
⤷ Old Terminian
[view] About NgerupicWith over one hundred languages and approximately 500 million speakers in total, the Ngerupic languages comprise one of the largest language families on Sahar, spoken predominantly in Akulanen, Soltenna, and the Terminian Dominion. Countries with Nge...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | (p) | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | [β]1 | [ð]2 | s | z | x | [ɣ]3 | ħ | ʕ | h | |||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /g/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i i: | y y: | u u: | |||
Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||
Open | ä ä: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Terminian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Old TerminianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
a a /ä/ | a á /ä:/ | b b /b/, [β] | c c /t͡s/ | d d /d/, [ð] | e e /e/ | e é /e:/ | g g /g/, [ɣ] | h h /ʕ/, /ħ/ | i í /i:/ | i i /i/ |
j j /j/ | k k /k/ | l l /l/ | m m /m/ | n n /n/ | o o /o/ | o ó /o:/ | p p /p/1 | q q /x/ | r r /ɾ/ | s s /s/ |
t t /t/ | u u /u/ | u ú /u:/ | w w /w/ | x x /d͡z/ | y y /y/ | y ý /y:/ | z z /z/ | ʿ /h/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- loan words only