High-Elven [QUD]
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High-Elven
i quiedda [i kʷiɛθa]
i quiedda [i kʷiɛθa]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About High-Elven
The language of the High-Elves spoken on the planet, Iarddya. High-Elves were once the most populous species on Iarddya, however, due to warring with Orcs (and other races) their numbers have somewhat dwindled but they are still the most common race on the planet. 'I quiedda' simply means "the language" in Quiedda. High-Elven is SVO.
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Language family relationships
Language treeElven (Iarddya)
⤷ Proto-Elven
⤷ High-Elven
⤷ Proto-Elven
⤷ High-Elven
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k kʷ | |||||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | s | ʃ | h | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Blends | hl |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | u | ||
Close-mid | e | |||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
Open | a |
Polyphthongs | ej | aɪ | ɔɪ | aʊ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for High-Elven. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
High-ElvenOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | DD dd/θ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Éé/e/ | Ff/f/ | Hh/h/ |
Ii/i/ | Ll/l/ | LL ll/hl/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | QU qu/kʷ/ | Rr/r/ |
Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |