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Ẹsvera'ali [œsfɛʁɐʔɐli]

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Ẹsvera'ali [œsfɛʁɐʔɐli]
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Hastrica on 1 September 2018
+ shared with: Pynquee, Rowe, Candles56, auctumnus, ultlang
+ shared with: Pynquee, Rowe, Candles56, auctumnus, ultlang
Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Proto-Osveraali
Proto-Osveraali is the common ancestor of all modern languages of Atsiq.
WIP grammar document available here.
Features:
- SOV in main clauses, but nouns marked by relative clauses are fronted
- Left-branching, postpositional, agglutinating
- Nominative-accusative with differential object marking (genitive partial objects, zero marking in negative sentences)
- Eleven cases (nominative, genitive, accusative, illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, comitative, abessive)
- Dual number on nouns, but not on adjectives and only to a limited degree on verbs; also a collective transnumeral form
- Two-dimensional vowel harmony: front/back harmony spans the entire word, while rounding harmony affects only suffixes based on the immediately preceding syllable
- Three phonemic vowel lengths, but no length distinction in consonants
- No gender, no articles
- Present-future-past tense system; tense-neutral desiderative and conditional mood
- Asymmetric negation: negative mood levels all tense distinctions and case marking
- Adverbial clauses expressed by a single catch-all adverbial form
- Possessive suffixes
- Middle voice covering reflexive, reciprocal, benefactive uses
- Predicative and attributive adjectives morphologically distinguished
- Duodecimal base counting system
WIP grammar document available here.
Features:
- SOV in main clauses, but nouns marked by relative clauses are fronted
- Left-branching, postpositional, agglutinating
- Nominative-accusative with differential object marking (genitive partial objects, zero marking in negative sentences)
- Eleven cases (nominative, genitive, accusative, illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, comitative, abessive)
- Dual number on nouns, but not on adjectives and only to a limited degree on verbs; also a collective transnumeral form
- Two-dimensional vowel harmony: front/back harmony spans the entire word, while rounding harmony affects only suffixes based on the immediately preceding syllable
- Three phonemic vowel lengths, but no length distinction in consonants
- No gender, no articles
- Present-future-past tense system; tense-neutral desiderative and conditional mood
- Asymmetric negation: negative mood levels all tense distinctions and case marking
- Adverbial clauses expressed by a single catch-all adverbial form
- Possessive suffixes
- Middle voice covering reflexive, reciprocal, benefactive uses
- Predicative and attributive adjectives morphologically distinguished
- Duodecimal base counting system
Sound samples in Proto-Osveraali
Some sound samples of Proto-Osveraali. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Ǯẻpsas šémiri ák!
You're eating my food!
You're eating my food!
Mâj ás.
I am a cat
I am a cat
Language family relationships
Language treeOsveraali
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Proto-Osveraali
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[view] About OsveraaliThe Osveraali languages are native to the continent of Atsiq, where they account for more than ninety-five percent of speakers. Traits shared by most Osveraali languages include large vowel inventories, retroflex consonants, fusional suffixing morpho...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | |||||||||||
Nasal | m m̥ | n n̥ | (ɲ)1 | ŋ ŋ̥ | ɴ ɴ̥ | |||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | b | t tʰ | d | (c)2 | (ɟ)3 | k (kʷ)4 kʰ | g (gʷ)5 | q (qʷ)6 qʰ | ɢ | ʔ | |||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | (ç)7 (çʷ)8 | (x)9 (xʷ)10 | (ɣ)11 (ɣʷ)12 | χ (χʷ)13 | ʁ | h | ||||||||
Affricate | t͡s t͡sʰ | d͡z | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | (ʎ)14 | ɫ | |||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | (ʍ)15 | w | (ɰ)16 | ||||||||||||||||||
Trill | (ʀ)17 |
- South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
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- South Osveraali
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- South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
- Greater Osveraali and South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
- Greater Osveraali and South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i i:: i: | y y:: y: | (ɨ)1 (ɨ:)2 | (ʉ)3 (ʉ:)4 | ɯ ɯ:: ɯ: | u u:: u: | ||||
Near-close | (ɪ)5 | (ʏ)6 | (ʊ)7 | |||||||
Close-mid | (e)8 (e:)9 | (ø)10 (ø:)11 | ɤ ɤ:: ɤ: | o o:: o: | ||||||
Mid | (ə)12 (ə:)13 | |||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ:: ɛ: | œ œ:: œ: | (ʌ)14 | (ɔ)15 | ||||||
Near-open | (æ)16 | ɐ ɐ:: ɐ: | ||||||||
Open | (a)17 (a:)18 | (ɑ)19 (ɑ:)20 | (ɒ)21 (ɒ:)22 |
Polyphthongs | (ɐɪ)23 | (iɐ)24 | (uɐ)25 | (ɐʊ)26 | (ɛɐ)27 | (oɐ)28 | (aɑ)29 | (ɛa)30 | (œa)31 | (ie)32 |
(ye)33 | (oɑ)34 | (ɤɑ)35 | (uo)36 | (ɯo)37 | (ya)38 |
- South Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
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- South Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
- Greater Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
- Greater Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
- Greater and South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
- South Osveraali
- Greater Osveraali
- Greater Osveraali
- Greater Osveraali
- Greater Osveraali
- Greater Osveraali
- Greater Osveraali
- South Osveraali
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Orthography
Below is the orthography for Proto-Osveraali. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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'/ʔ/ | Aa/ɐ/ | Áá/ɐ:/ | Ââ/ɐ::/ | Àà/a/1 | Ää/ɑ/2 | Āā/ɑ:/3 | Ȁȁ/a:/4 | Ăă/æ/5 | AI ai/ɐɪ/6 | AU au/ɐʊ/7 |
Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Čč/t͡ʃ/ | Ƈƈ/t͡sʰ/ | Ćć/çʷ/8 | Ĉĉ/ç/9 | Ċċ/c/10 | Çç/t͡ʃʰ/ | Dd/d/ | Ḍḍ/ð/ | Ee/ɛ/ |
Éé/ɛ:/ | Êê/ɛ::/ | Ẹẹ/œ/ | Ẻẻ/œ:/ | Ẽẽ/œ::/ | Èè/e/11 | Ëë/ʌ/12 | Ȅȅ/e:/13 | EA ea/ɛɐ/14 | EÀ eà/ɛa/15 | ẸÀ ẹà/œa/16 |
Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Ǵǵ/ɢ/ | Ǥǥ/qʷ/17 | Ǧǧ/gʷ/18 | Hh/h/ | Ȟȟ/χʷ/19 | Ii/i/ | Íí/i:/ | Îî/i::/ | Ịị/y/ |
Ỉỉ/y:/ | Ĩĩ/y::/ | Ïï/ɪ/20 | IA ia/iɐ/21 | IÈ iè/ie/22 | ỊÀ ịà/ya/23 | ỊÈ ịè/ye/24 | Jj/j/ | ǰ/ɟ/25 | Kk/k/ | Ƙƙ/kʰ/ |
Ǩǩ/kʷ/26 | Ll/l/ | Ḷḷ/ɫ/ | Ľľ/ʎ/27 | Mm/m/ | Ṃṃ/m̥/ | Nn/n/ | Ṇṇ/n̥/ | Ņņ/ŋ/ | Ṋṋ/ŋ̥/ | Ńń/ɴ/ |
Ňň/ɴ̥/ | Ññ/ɲ/28 | Oo/o/ | Óó/o:/ | Ôô/o::/ | Ọọ/ɤ/ | Ỏỏ/ɤ:/ | Õõ/ɤ::/ | Òò/ɔ/29 | Øø/ø/30 | Ǿǿ/ø:/31 |
Ơơ/ɒ/32 | Ớớ/ɒ:/33 | OA oa/oɐ/34 | OÄ oä/oɑ/35 | ỌÄ ọä/ɤɑ/36 | Pp/p/ | Ƥƥ/pʰ/ | Qq/q/ | Ɋɋ/qʰ/ | Rr/ʁ/ | Ṙṙ/ɣ/37 |
Ṛṛ/ɣʷ/38 | Ʀʀ/ʀ/39 | Ss/s/ | Šš/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Ʈʈ/tʰ/ | Ṭṭ/θ/ | Uu/u/ | Úú/u:/ | Ûû/u::/ | Ụụ/ɯ/ |
Ủủ/ɯ:/ | Ũũ/ɯ::/ | Üü/ʊ/40 | UA ua/uɐ/41 | UO uo/uo/42 | ỤO ụo/ɯo/43 | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Ⱳⱳ/ɰ/44 | Xx/χ/ | X̣ x̣/xʷ/45 |
Ẋẋ/x/46 | Yy/ɨ/47 | Ýý/ɨ:/48 | Ÿÿ/ʏ/49 | Ẏẏ/ʉ/50 | Ȳȳ/ʉ:/51 | Zz/z/ | Żż/d͡z/ | Ʒʒ/ʒ/ | Ǯǯ/d͡ʒ/ | Əə/ə/52 |
ÀÄ àä/aɑ/53 | ʍ/ʍ/54 | Ēē/ə:/55 | ||||||||
✔ Shown in correct order |
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater Osveraali and South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater Osveraali and South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- Greater and South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
- South Osveraali, loan words only
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