Llagz [RGJ]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Llagz
Classification and Mutual Intelligibility:
Llagz is the most commonly spoken language in the Llagz-Amam language family. It is well known, and the base vocabulary of Llagz is useable in most of its various dialects and descendants. If a speaker of any Llagz-related language is in a room with a speaker of a different Llagz-related language, 'classical' or 'standard' Llagz is the most predictable way of communicating with the other speaker. Because of this, Llagz, most often a Kutyama dialect, is often taught as a second language.
Grammar:
- Llagz is inflectional, though is the least inflectional and synthetic of all Llagz-Amam dialects. Verbs are marked for person in the Kutyama dialects, but are often not inflected in most Piguta dialects.
- There is a distal-past, and near-past distinction which is shared across all dialects, and Amam-branch Amam languages.
- Nouns are marked based on their role in the sentence, and decline for dual, singular, and plural.
- There is no grammatical gender in Llagz, Amam, or any descendent languages or dialects.
Llagz is the most commonly spoken language in the Llagz-Amam language family. It is well known, and the base vocabulary of Llagz is useable in most of its various dialects and descendants. If a speaker of any Llagz-related language is in a room with a speaker of a different Llagz-related language, 'classical' or 'standard' Llagz is the most predictable way of communicating with the other speaker. Because of this, Llagz, most often a Kutyama dialect, is often taught as a second language.
Grammar:
- Llagz is inflectional, though is the least inflectional and synthetic of all Llagz-Amam dialects. Verbs are marked for person in the Kutyama dialects, but are often not inflected in most Piguta dialects.
- There is a distal-past, and near-past distinction which is shared across all dialects, and Amam-branch Amam languages.
- Nouns are marked based on their role in the sentence, and decline for dual, singular, and plural.
- There is no grammatical gender in Llagz, Amam, or any descendent languages or dialects.
Language family relationships
Language treeLlagz-Amam
⤷ Llagz
⤷ Llagz
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||
Plosive | p pʲ | [b]1 | t tʲ | [d]2 | k kʲ | [g]3 | ʔ | |||||
Fricative | s | [z]4 | ʃ | [ʒ]5 | x | [ɣ]6 | h | |||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | [d͡ʒ]7 | ||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʟ | ||||||||||
Approximant | j |
Blends | [gʒ]8 | kʃ | pʃ | [bʒ]9 |
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /t͡ʃ/
- allophone of /kʃ/
- allophone of /pʃ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | ì: | ù: | ||||||
Near-close | ɪ́ | |||||||
Mid | ə́ | |||||||
Open-mid | ɔ́ | |||||||
Near-open | ǽ | |||||||
Open | à: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Llagz. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
LlagzOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
à à /à:/ | h h /h/ | ì ì /ì:/ | í í /ɪ́/ | k k /k/, [g] | ks ks /kʃ/ | ky ky /kʲ/ | l l /l/ | ll ll /ʟ/ |
m m /m/ | n n /n/ | ny ny /ɲ/ | p p /p/, [b] | ps ps /pʃ/ | py py /pʲ/ | q q /ʔ/ | s s /s/ | sh sh /ʃ/ |
t t /t/, [d] | ty ty /tʲ/ | ù ù /ù:/ | x x /x/ | y y /j/ | ' ' /ə́/ | á á /ǽ/ | tsh tsh /t͡ʃ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |