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Usuvan
Õzāra [ə'za:ɾɑ]
UsuvanÕzāra [ə'za:ɾɑ]
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Usuvan
The language of the Usuva region, capital of the old Osveraali Empire.
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Language family relationships
Language treeOsveraali
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Proto-Osveraali
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Usuvan
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Proto-Osveraali⤷
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Old Osveraali⤷
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Usuvan[view] About OsveraaliThe Osveraali languages are native to the continent of Atsiq, where they account for more than ninety-five percent of speakers. They are mostly fusional, head-final postpositional languages with large vowel inventories, but show considerable diversit...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | ʈ | ɖ | k | g | ||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | x | ɣ | |||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ɭ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e: | o: | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a: | ɑ | ||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Usuvan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| UsuvanOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa A /ɑ/ | Āā A /a:/ | Ee E /ɛ/ | Ēē E /e:/ | Ii I /i/ | Oo O /ɔ/ | Ōō O /o:/ | Uu U /u/ | Bb Bā /b/ | Cc Cā /k/ | Dd Dā /d/ |
| Ff Fā /f/ | Vv Vā /v/ | Gg Gā /g/ | Rr Rā /ɾ/ | Jj Jā /j/ | Ll Lā /l/ | Mm Mā /m/ | Nn Nā /n/ | Pp Pā /p/ | Ss Sā /s/ | Zz Zā /z/ |
| Tt Tā /t/ | TH th Thā /θ/ | Õõ Õ /ə/ | CH ch Chā /x/ | DJ dj Djā /ɖ/ | GH gh Ghā /ɣ/ | LJ lj Ljā /ɭ/ | SH sh Shā /ʂ/ | TJ tj Tjā /ʈ/ | ZH zh Zhā /ʐ/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | ||||||||||
