Old Tirina [OTN]
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Old Tirina
Garsen [gaɾsen]*
Old TirinaGarsen [gaɾsen]*
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[Deactivated User] on 1 October 2014
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Tirina
I'll be honest. I only added this one to CWS because I didn't have a good phonology table, and the one here is really convenient to use.
Old Tirina is theoretically the ancestor of (Modern) Tirina, but in truth it's nothing more than a big jumble of vocabulary from which to draw Modern Tirina words. Azen also borrowed heavily from it. So don't expect a whole lot. Nobody's going to be writing epics in Old Tirina.
It's mostly a priori but when I'm bored and/or stuck I nick from a weird combination of Sumerian, Akkadian, and Proto-Kartvelian. Why? Because I have good dictionaries for those. It is highly unlikely any natlang would have such origins, so it's a good thing Old Tirina isn't a natlang.
I have exactly zero plans to ever put any OT vocabulary here, so don't hold your breath.
Old Tirina is theoretically the ancestor of (Modern) Tirina, but in truth it's nothing more than a big jumble of vocabulary from which to draw Modern Tirina words. Azen also borrowed heavily from it. So don't expect a whole lot. Nobody's going to be writing epics in Old Tirina.
It's mostly a priori but when I'm bored and/or stuck I nick from a weird combination of Sumerian, Akkadian, and Proto-Kartvelian. Why? Because I have good dictionaries for those. It is highly unlikely any natlang would have such origins, so it's a good thing Old Tirina isn't a natlang.
I have exactly zero plans to ever put any OT vocabulary here, so don't hold your breath.
Sample of Old TirinaCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeGarsenian
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Old Tirina
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Old Tirina[view] About GarsenianThe Garsenian language family's only surviving descendant is Modern Tirina. The "founding" language of the family is commonly called Garsen, but probably should more properly be called "Proto-Garsenian" or "Proto-Tirina".
At any rate, Old Tirina w...
At any rate, Old Tirina w...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | h | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Close-mid | e e: | ɘ | o o: | |||
| Open | a a: | ɒ ɒ: | ||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Tirina. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Old TirinaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | Āā/a:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ēē/e:/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ |
| Ii/i/ | Īī/i:/ | Iı/ɘ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Ṓṓ/ɒ:/ | Ōō/o:/ |
| Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/, /u:/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | Ʃʃ/ʃ/ | Ɒɒ/ɒ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
