Qotsian [QTS]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Qotsian
Qotsian is spoken in the southern part of the Thargo-Qotsian Union and across the border in nearby countries. It is a Thargic language, descending from Old Thargian along with Thargian and Siqian. Qotsian is often regarded as the sane version of Thargian, due to its simpler phonology and grammar.
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Language family relationships
Language treeOsveraali
⤷ Proto-Osveraali
⤷ Greater Osveraali
⤷ Thargic
⤷ Old Thargian
⤷ Thargo-Qotsian
⤷ Qotsian
⤷ Proto-Osveraali
⤷ Greater Osveraali
⤷ Thargic
⤷ Old Thargian
⤷ Thargo-Qotsian
⤷ Qotsian
[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 | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | ʈ | ɖ | k | g | ʔ | |||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | x | ɣ | h | |||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | ʈ͡ʂ | ɖ͡ʐ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | ɭ | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | ɻ | j | w |
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
Mid | [ə]3 | |||||||||
Open-mid | [ɛ]4 ɛ̃ | ɔ̃ | ||||||||
Near-open | ɐ ɐ̃ | |||||||||
Open | [ɑ]5 |
Polyphthongs | ɛu6 | ɐɪ̃7 | ɐʊ̃8 | oɪ̯ |
- unstressed, allophone of /i/
- unstressed, allophone of /u/
- unstressed, allophone of /ɐ/
- unstressed, allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
- ɛ non-syllabic
- ɐ non-syllabic & nasalized
- ɐ non-syllabic & nasalized
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Qotsian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
QotsianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
'/ʔ/ | Ãã/ɐ̃/ | Aa/ɐ/, [ə]1 | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | C̣ c̣/ʈ͡ʂ/ | Ḍḍ/ɖ/ | Dd/d/ | ḌẒ ḍẓ/ɖ͡ʐ/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | Ee/e/, [ɛ]2 |
Ẽẽ/ɛ̃/ | EU eu/ɛu/3 | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/, [ɪ]4 | Ĩĩ/ɐɪ̃/5 | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/ɭ/ | LJ lj/ʎ/ |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ṇṇ/ɳ/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Õõ/ɔ̃/ | Oo/o/, [ɑ] | OI oi/oɪ̯/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ɣ/ | Rr/ɻ/ | Ṣṣ/ʂ/ |
Ss/s/ | Ṭṭ/ʈ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/, [ʊ]6 | Ũũ/ɐʊ̃/7 | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Ẓẓ/ʐ/ | Zz/z/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- unstressed
- unstressed
- ɛ non-syllabic
- unstressed
- ɐ non-syllabic & nasalized
- unstressed
- ɐ non-syllabic & nasalized