Ozfan [OZF]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ozfan
Ozfanards'r is strictly SVO with noun-adjective order, nominative-accusative alignment, witnessed-reported evidentiality, and simple human-animate (but not human)-inanimate distinction.
Its phonology features almost excessive syllabics and a large collection of vowel sounds.
Ozfan is a language with few suffixes, where ideas like "creativity" are expressed as móagh-ist-if'ung [móagh-ist-if'ung], literally "state of doing creating".
Its phonology features almost excessive syllabics and a large collection of vowel sounds.
Ozfan is a language with few suffixes, where ideas like "creativity" are expressed as móagh-ist-if'ung [móagh-ist-if'ung], literally "state of doing creating".
Sample of Ozfan[view] sám ist iunás'm'n hwó ĺæd'd cóhn'n imhen ist dy'ghîĺ'gh
All those who gain power are afraid to lose it.[view all texts]
All those who gain power are afraid to lose it.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | t͡ɬ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ɫ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | ʍ | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ ɪ: | |||||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ʌ ʌ: | ɔ ɔ: | |||||
| Near-open | æ æ: | ɐ ɐ: | ||||||
| Open | ɑ ɑ: | ɒ ɒ: | ||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ozfan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 OzfanOrthography | |||||||||
| ' ' unard'run /ə/ | a a arund /ɑ/ | ä ä arund orug /ɑ:/ | â â arund il elef /ɒ:/ | á á arund il an /ɒ/ | c c corn /k/ | ch ch chrás /x/ | d d dals /d/ | ê ê ecam il elef /e:/ | ë ë ecam orug /ɛ:/ |
| é é ecam il ar /e/ | e e ecam /ɛ/ | f f fær /f/ | g g gan /g/ | gh gh ghet /ɣ/ | h h hefit /h/ | hw hw hwíz /ʍ/ | í í isic il ar /i/ | ï ï isic orug /ɪ:/ | i i isic /ɪ/ |
| î î isic il elef /i:/ | j j jæ'r /ʒ/ | l l legas /l/ | ĺ ĺ llöd /ɬ/ | m m meirc /m/ | n n nein /n/ | o o honef /o/ | ó ó honef il an /ɔ/ | ô ô honef il elef /ɔ:/ | ö ö honef orug /o:/ |
| r r ra /ɹ/ | ś ś śec /ʃ/ | s s sáp /s/ | t t tôrn /t/ | ú ú ugän il an /u/ | û û ugän il elef /u:/ | ü ü ugän orug /ʌ:/ | u u ugän /ʌ/ | v v vës /v/ | w w wen /w/ |
| y y yav /j/ | z z zeirn /z/ | æ æ hǽmset /æ/ | ǽ ǽ hǽmset il an /ɐ/ | æ̂ æ̂ hǽmset il elef /ɐ:/ | æ̈ æ̈ hǽmset orug /æ:/ | ||||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
