Chytari [RICIT]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersChytari is spoken in Chytaria, Yisenia and neighbouring areas.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Chytari
Chytari is a language spoken by a nomadic population of Chytari people, though some of them permanently settled in Chytaria (natively cui auni cetani or Cetauni). Most of them wander in this region, though a significant number of Chytari choose to travel way farther – these groups mostly rely on working as performers, musicians or storytellers, usually combining all of these professions to host shows in villages, towns or even bigger cities. Some of them, namely the Yisenic Chytari, work as mercenaries. As for the Chytari living in the Chytaria, they herd various animals ranging from sheep, goats and cows to horses and camels. Some practice agriculture.
- my goal was weird ass phonology and the glorious /r̝/
- we love diphthongs here
- absolutely fucked up grammatical number system(s) (collective/singulative and singular/plural systems combined to make up a horrific abomination from the hell itself; an example of this is tiu which can mean both "leg" and "legs" depending on context and can take both the singulative and plural endings, again depending on context, oh and also there is fossilized dual in all of this)
- suppletion is common in nouns (cișai "river" x tuga "rivers"; yari "sea" x șuyou "seas", but also "ocean", where the plural is șuyouge "oceans")
- mostly double-marking
- polypersonal agreement
- a lot of auxiliary verbs for basically everything except basic conjugation for non-past and past tenses
- probably a lot of small dialects given the nomadic nature of some of its people
- base-12
- ⟨ț⟩ /d͡ʒ/? dont you even worry about it
Cui ceta – The people
Chytari is a language spoken by a nomadic population of Chytari people, though some of them permanently settled in Chytaria (natively cui auni cetani or Cetauni). Most of them wander in this region, though a significant number of Chytari choose to travel way farther – these groups mostly rely on working as performers, musicians or storytellers, usually combining all of these professions to host shows in villages, towns or even bigger cities. Some of them, namely the Yisenic Chytari, work as mercenaries. As for the Chytari living in the Chytaria, they herd various animals ranging from sheep, goats and cows to horses and camels. Some practice agriculture.
Cui ri – The language
- my goal was weird ass phonology and the glorious /r̝/
- we love diphthongs here
- absolutely fucked up grammatical number system(s) (collective/singulative and singular/plural systems combined to make up a horrific abomination from the hell itself; an example of this is tiu which can mean both "leg" and "legs" depending on context and can take both the singulative and plural endings, again depending on context, oh and also there is fossilized dual in all of this)
- suppletion is common in nouns (cișai "river" x tuga "rivers"; yari "sea" x șuyou "seas", but also "ocean", where the plural is șuyouge "oceans")
- mostly double-marking
- polypersonal agreement
- a lot of auxiliary verbs for basically everything except basic conjugation for non-past and past tenses
- probably a lot of small dialects given the nomadic nature of some of its people
- base-12
- ⟨ț⟩ /d͡ʒ/? dont you even worry about it
Language family relationships
[view] About IsolatesThis is a family for isolate languages.
[edit] [view] cui ri yisaicetani (Yisenic Chytari)A variant of Chytari serving as a lingua franca of nomadic mercenaries of various ethnicities living in Yisenia. Vocabulary, grammar, phonology and orthography are all influenced by the Yisenian language as well as other Vari and Sentian languages spoken in the region.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | (m) | n1 | [ɲ]2 | [ŋ]3 | ||||||||
| Plosive | (p)4 | (b)5 | t | d6 | k | g7 | ʔ | |||||
| Fricative | s | z8 | ʃ | ʒ | [x]9 | ɣ10 | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||
| Approximant | j j: | |||||||||||
| Trill | r11 r̝12 | |||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ13 | |||||||||||
- /n~ɾ/; [n] before consonants except /k g j w/
- before /j/, only found on the root-suffix boundary and in compounds, allophone of /n/
- before /k g/, allophone of /n/
- /p~f/
- /b~v/
- /d~z/; [d] before open and back vowels
- /g~ɣ/; [g] word-initially and after consonants
- /d~z/; [z] before front vowels
- before voiceless consonants, allophone of /ɣ/
- /g~ɣ/; [ɣ] intervocalically and in coda position
- /r~r̝/; [r] before back and open vowels
- /r~r̝/; [r̝] before front vowels, consonants except fricatives and affricates
- /n~ɾ/; [ɾ] before vowels and /w/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɨ | u | |||
| Near-open | ɐ1 | |||||
| Polyphthongs | uɪ̯ | əu̯ | ɛɪ̯2 | eɪ̯3 | eu̯ | əɪ̯ | ou̯4 | ɑu̯ |
- /ɐ~a/
- /ɛɪ̯~aɪ̯/
- /eɪ̯~i:/
- /ou̯~u:/
Syllable Structure(C)V(L)
L = /n~ɾ k s ʃ g~ɣ r̝~r/
L = /n~ɾ k s ʃ g~ɣ r̝~r/
Stress informationPenultimate stress.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Chytari. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ChytariOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ɐ/1 | AI ai/ɛɪ̯/2 | AU au/ɑu̯/ | Bb/b/3 | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/z/4, /d/5 | Ee/ɨ/ | EI ei/əɪ̯/ | EU eu/əu̯/ | Gg/ɣ/6, /g/7, [x]8 |
| Ii/i/ | II ii/eɪ̯/9 | IU iu/eu̯/ | Kk/k/ | Mm/m/10 | Nn/n/11, /ɾ/12, [ŋ]13 | OU ou/ou̯/14 | Pp/p/15 | Rr/r̝/16, /r/17 | Șș/ʃ/ |
| Ss/s/ | Țț/d͡ʒ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | UI ui/uɪ̯/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/ʒ/ | ’/ʔ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- /ɐ~a/
- /ɛɪ̯~aɪ̯/
- /b~v/, loan words only
- /d~z/; [z] before front vowels
- /d~z/; [d] before open and back vowels
- /g~ɣ/; [ɣ] intervocalically and in coda position
- /g~ɣ/; [g] word-initially and after consonants
- before voiceless consonants
- /eɪ̯~i:/
- loan words only
- /n~ɾ/; [n] before consonants except /k g j w/
- /n~ɾ/; [ɾ] before vowels and /w/
- before /k g/
- /ou̯~u:/
- /p~f/, loan words only
- /r~r̝/; [r̝] before front vowels, consonants except fricatives and affricates
- /r~r̝/; [r] before back and open vowels
