Modern Standard Osveraali [OVA]
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Pynquee on 2 September 2018
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Modern Standard Osveraali
The official language of 
Dachashk.
When the sentence is in past tense, the word order is VSO.
When the sentence is in present tense, the word order is SVO.
When the sentence is in future tense, the word order is SOV.
If the past tense verb is alone (no word order possible or word order not identifiable), the letter "ó" precedes the verb.
If the present tense verb is alone (no word order possible or word order not identifiable), the letter "á" precedes the verb.
If the future tense verb is alone (no word order possible or word order not identifiable), the letter "ú" precedes the verb.
Nouns end with a vowel.
Verbs end with a "it".
Adjectives end with a consonant
Dachashk.When the sentence is in past tense, the word order is VSO.
When the sentence is in present tense, the word order is SVO.
When the sentence is in future tense, the word order is SOV.
If the past tense verb is alone (no word order possible or word order not identifiable), the letter "ó" precedes the verb.
If the present tense verb is alone (no word order possible or word order not identifiable), the letter "á" precedes the verb.
If the future tense verb is alone (no word order possible or word order not identifiable), the letter "ú" precedes the verb.
Nouns end with a vowel.
Verbs end with a "it".
Adjectives end with a consonant
Sample of Modern Standard Osveraali[view] Já újýfája zíxíšíj!
I will break the table![view all texts]
I will break the table![view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeOsveraali
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Proto-Osveraali
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Greater Osveraali
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Old Osveraali
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Middle Osveraali
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Modern Standard Osveraali
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Proto-Osveraali⤷
Greater Osveraali⤷ Osveraalic
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Old Osveraali⤷
Middle Osveraali⤷
Modern Standard Osveraali[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 | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | χ | ʁ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ɭ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | y: | ɨ | u: | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | ɤ | o | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɜ | ɔ | ||||||||
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | ||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | aɐɪ | æeɪ | aɐ | æe | oɔ oɔ: | iɪ: | yi: | uʊ: | aɔʏ̯ | aɔ̯ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Modern Standard Osveraali. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Modern Standard OsveraaliOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa/ɐ/ | Áá/aɐ/ | Āā/aɐɪ/ | Ee/ɜ/ | Éé/æe/ | Ēē/æeɪ/ | Ii/e/ | Íí/i:/ | Īī/iɪ:/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Óó/oɔ/ |
| Ōō/oɔ:/ | Uu/ɤ/ | Úú/u:/ | Ūū/uʊ:/ | Ẃẃ/aɔ̯/ | W̄ w̄/aɔʏ̯/ | Yy/ø/ | Ýý/y:/ | Ȳȳ/yi:/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ |
| Ćć/d͡z/ | Dd/d/ | Ff/f/ | Vv/v/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Xx/χ/ | Rr/ʁ/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Pp/p/ | Ss/s/ | Zz/z/ | Šš/ʂ/ | Žž/ʐ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order | ||||||||||
