Ratazesh [RTZ]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ratazesh
Currently under some reconstructions...
Ratazesh (RTZ: Ratazesyoyits Kagugana) is spoken by a total of around 1 million speakers in Kagugana and its neighboring country Lumyat.
Interesting features about Ratazesh include:
Ratazesh (RTZ: Ratazesyoyits Kagugana) is spoken by a total of around 1 million speakers in Kagugana and its neighboring country Lumyat.
Interesting features about Ratazesh include:
- Voiced uvular stop!
- VSO Word order!
- Vowel Cycle!
- Possessed case! (But no dative because it's too mainstream~)
- Hybrid writing system inspired by Japanese and Egyptian scripts~!
- And many many more to come!
Language family relationships
[view] Yoxotskotiyits Ursov (Yoxotskotish)A Ratazesh dialect spoken mainly in southwestern Yoxotskot, Kagugana's third largest city.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | [g]1 | [q]2 | ɢ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | x | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | [w]3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /ɢ/
- allophone of /k/
- written ‹vu› or ‹uv›, allophone of /v/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | o | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ratazesh. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 RatazeshOrthography | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Oo/o/ | Ii/i/ | Uu/u/ | Mm/m/ | Pp/p/ | Bb/b/ | Ff/f/ |
| Vv/v/ | Nn/n/ | Tt/t/ | Dd/d/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ll/l/ | Ss/s/ | Zz/z/ | TS ts/t͡s/ |
| DZ dz/d͡z/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | SY sy/ʃ/ | Yy/j/ | Kk/k/ | Xx/x/ | Gg/ɢ/ | Hh/h/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | ||||||||
