Draconic [QAE]
▲
0▲ 0 ▼ 0
Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 2 April 2023
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Draconic
Language of the ancient sapient dragons. Although their evolutionary relatives have become on of the world's dominant clades, and some of those have re-evolved sapience, the original talking dragons are rare, living in small, remote strongholds or isolated nests. The chief speakers of Draconic are the humanoid Khetekh, whose origin as the dragon's servants gives them an innate birth-knowledge of the language.
Features
-Old Draconic used to have a case system, but the only remnant of this is the genitive ending -â
-Edible and Inedible genders
-Polypersonal pronouns. There used to be pure 1SG, 1PL, etc. pronouns, but these have fallen out of use in modern Draconic. So, how do you form a sentence like "I saw" "I ran away" etc? You add a -k affix that deletes the second referent. So râ (1sg subj and 2sg obj) becomes râk '1sg subj', leś '2sg subj and 1sg object' becomes lekś '2sg subj', and so on. However, the deleted referent does still have some influence - râk is considered more informal than the 3sg obj form zakkh, which is in turn more informal than the 3pl obj form sakz. So how you refer to yourself in these sentences depends on the social status of the person to whom you are speaking - râk for close friends and family, zakkh as a 'neutral' form for strangers, acquaintances and when you do not know the status of the listener, and sakz if you are speaking to someone of higher status. The same applies for 1pl and second-person subject forms.
-Written with a logography
-agglutinative verb morphology
Features
-Old Draconic used to have a case system, but the only remnant of this is the genitive ending -â
-Edible and Inedible genders
-Polypersonal pronouns. There used to be pure 1SG, 1PL, etc. pronouns, but these have fallen out of use in modern Draconic. So, how do you form a sentence like "I saw" "I ran away" etc? You add a -k affix that deletes the second referent. So râ (1sg subj and 2sg obj) becomes râk '1sg subj', leś '2sg subj and 1sg object' becomes lekś '2sg subj', and so on. However, the deleted referent does still have some influence - râk is considered more informal than the 3sg obj form zakkh, which is in turn more informal than the 3pl obj form sakz. So how you refer to yourself in these sentences depends on the social status of the person to whom you are speaking - râk for close friends and family, zakkh as a 'neutral' form for strangers, acquaintances and when you do not know the status of the listener, and sakz if you are speaking to someone of higher status. The same applies for 1pl and second-person subject forms.
-Written with a logography
-agglutinative verb morphology
Sample of DraconicCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | |||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ t̪ʼ | d̪ | k kʼ | g | ||||
| Fricative | β | θ | s | z | ʃ | x | ||||
| Lateral approximant | l̪ | |||||||||
| Trill | r̪ | |||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | ɯ | u | |||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | ɘ | o | |||||
| Open-mid | ɔ | |||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||||
Syllable Structure(V)C(C)V(C)(V)(C)
Orsâ Khâl doesn't allow fricatives to begin a consonant cluster, but otherwise any consonant can cluster with any other, including clusters where both consonants are fricatives.
Orsâ Khâl doesn't allow fricatives to begin a consonant cluster, but otherwise any consonant can cluster with any other, including clusters where both consonants are fricatives.
OtherAlthough reptilian, the teeth of the lizard-folk are covered by scaly lips. These usually would not be enough to enable them to produce bilabials, and this is so among lizard-folk elsewhere, but the Khalic people have, as an adaptation to a harsh, mostly dry and quite windy climate, evolved more substantial lips to protect their teeth and gums (enamel must stay hydrated to stay healthy) and keep the dry (and often dust-laden) wind from dehydrating their mouth and throat.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Draconic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 DraconicOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Ââ/ɑ/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d̪/ | Êê/ɘ/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/ | Îî/ɪ/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ |
| K' k'/kʼ/ | KH kh/x/ | Ll/l̪/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/ | Oo/o/ | Ôô/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r̪/ | Śś/θ/ |
| Ss/s/ | Tt/t̪/ | T' t'/t̪ʼ/ | Uu/u/ | Ûû/ɯ/ | Vv/β/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Zz/z/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
