Ravi [RAVI]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ravi
Ravi is from a fantasy project I'm working on called On Sacred Tides. It serves as the lingua franca of trade, religion, scholars, and commoners on the continent of Mekua and the islands of Kaitapao, Avaui, and Cai.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ | n | ɲ | ŋ ŋʲ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | [p]1 | b bʲ | t tʲ | d dʲ | k kʲ | g gʲ | q | [ɢ]2 | ||||||||
| Fricative | s sʲ | ʃ ʃʲ | ç | x | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]3 | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ⱱ]4 ⱱʲ | ɾ ɾʲ | ||||||||||||||
- 'b' before voiceless stops, allophone of /b/
- 'q' before voiced stops, allophone of /q/
- allophone of /ɾ/
- allophone of /ʋ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɯ | u u̞ | |||
| Close-mid | o | |||||
| Mid | ə | o̞ | ||||
| Open-mid | œ | |||||
| Open | a | [ɑ]1 | ||||
| Polyphthongs | ua | uə | uo | ui̯ | əi̯ | ao̯ | au̯ | oi̯ | ai̯ |
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ravi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 RaviOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/, [ɑ] | Ăă/ə/ | Bb/b/, [p]1 | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ḥḥ/x/ | Ĭĭ/ɯ/ |
| Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Ņņ/ŋ/ | Nn/n/ | Öö/œ/ | Oo/o/ | Ŏŏ/o̞/ |
| Qq/q/, [ɢ]2 | Rr/ɾ/, [r] | Şş/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ŭŭ/u̞/ | Vv/ʋ/, [ⱱ] | Yy/j/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- 'b' before voiceless stops
- 'q' before voiced stops
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