Proto Dalman [PDALM]
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[Deactivated User] on 20 October 2019
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Proto Dalman
hi, everyone. this my first conlang project. my goal is to develop a naturalistic language that makes use of VSO word-order and nominal tense and aspect marking for a casual worldbuilding project and for fun.
Sample of Proto Dalman[view] vepi nemaje ancilin lauzo nasav nesi ye, si ne anmecat. vepi nemaje ancilin lauzo ceye nasav, si ne anmicbo.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.[view all texts]
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʒ | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||
| Blends | kl |
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | |||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a [ã]1 | |||
| Polyphthongs | ai | ei | uo | au | [aɯ]2 | [ɯo]3 |
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /au/
- allophone of /uo/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Proto Dalman. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Proto DalmanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa a /a/ | AI ai ai /ai/ | AU au au /au/ | Bb bi /b/ | Cc ki /k/ | CL cl cli /kl/ | Dd di /d/ | Ee e /e/ | EI ei ei /ei/ |
| Ff fi /f/ | Gg gi /g/ | Ii i /i/ | Jj ji /ʒ/ | Ll li /l/ | Mm mi /m/ | Nn ni /n/ | Oo o /o/ | Pp pi /p/ |
| Rr ri /ɾ/ | Ss si /s/ | Tt ti /t/ | UO uo uo /uo/ | Vv vi /v/ | Yy yi /j/ | Zz zi /z/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
