Old Desani [RSD]
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1,025 words
Old Desani
de-sane-hi [dɛsanɛhi]
Old Desanide-sane-hi [dɛsanɛhi]
Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 1 May 2019
Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Desani
ALL HAIL THE WATER LANG
The common ancestor of
Kasewayan, 
Rashintu, 
Standard Keranian and 
Saridzani aka the Desanlangs.
WARNING: this language can be considered my first actual conlang. It's marked as “complete” because there are no plans of further development. Recently I’ve done my best to make it look less messy, but it’s still pretty bad compared to my newer conlangs. One day someone just removed their upvote on this lang and I wasn’t even surprised lol
Main features of this… thing:
ALL HAIL THE WATER LANG
The common ancestor of
Kasewayan, Rashintu, Standard Keranian and Saridzani aka the Desanlangs.WARNING: this language can be considered my first actual conlang. It's marked as “complete” because there are no plans of further development. Recently I’ve done my best to make it look less messy, but it’s still pretty bad compared to my newer conlangs. One day someone just removed their upvote on this lang and I wasn’t even surprised lol
Main features of this… thing:
- analytical/agglutinative morphology
- uncommon animacy distinctions (basically everything that can move on their own is considered animate)
- nouns are divided into possessible and non-possessible as well
- words are written with a ton of dashes to separate the stems from modifiers (believe me, it makes sense and makes derivation easier)
- an intricate script being a mix of a syllabary and featural writing system (there was a pic at the bottom of this page but it disappeared, #ThanksJay)
Sample of Old Desani[view] de edi mala-ho zelo te râ eke na dare ze dohi ime
Your affection for inanimate objects frightens me.[view all texts]
Your affection for inanimate objects frightens me.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeDesanian
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Old Desani
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Old Desani[view] About DesanianOne of the language families of the western regions of Dawera, among a few other unrelated groups of languages.
Modern Desanian languages are spoken by over 40 million people in Kasewaya, Inwez, Nesyania and Tazul.
Modern Desanian languages are spoken by over 40 million people in Kasewaya, Inwez, Nesyania and Tazul.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | |||||||
| Fricative | v | s | z | χ | h | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Desani. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Old DesaniOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ââ/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Pp/p/ | Dd/d/ | Tt/t/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ii/i/ | Yy/j/ | Hh/h/ | Xx/χ/ | Gg/g/ |
| Kk/k/ | Qq/q/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Uu/u/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||||
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