Rizó [RZO]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersRizó is spoken by a population of around 312,000,000 in Rikálan Republic, Winkai SR, minority in Siranem SR and Voganem SR.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Rizó
Rizó is the native and official language of Rikálan and one of the official languages of the Winkai SR, Voganem SR and Siranem SR of the Juz Federation, along with Juzri. It was brought to the Snake Islands (Rikálan) by nomad tribes from the Far West around 800 years ago.
The language is written using the kauzóng, an alphasyllabary. Historically it's written vertically left-to-right, but nowadays it's common to see horizontal text, most likely influenced by the major neighboring languages (Juz and Leveto, both written left-to-right). Literature is often written vertically with horizontal headings and titles, signs are horizontal (also commonly bilingual or trilingual in Siranem), most documents and forms are written vertically.
The language is written using the kauzóng, an alphasyllabary. Historically it's written vertically left-to-right, but nowadays it's common to see horizontal text, most likely influenced by the major neighboring languages (Juz and Leveto, both written left-to-right). Literature is often written vertically with horizontal headings and titles, signs are horizontal (also commonly bilingual or trilingual in Siranem), most documents and forms are written vertically.
Sample of Rizó[view] pán ratsá zhe tau miyo. yún guro yá tau du cuen yá konbáye 'a ra ródázi fucha.
Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is that you're stupid and you make bad decisions.[view all texts]
Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is that you're stupid and you make bad decisions.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | ɕ | ʑ | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | ʈ͡ʂ | t͡ɕ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | y y: | u u: | |||
| Close-mid | e e: | ø ø: | o o: | |||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ɔ | ||||
| Open | ɑ ɑ: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ | ɑʊ | ɛɪ |
- allophone of /ɛ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Rizó. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 RizóOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a a /ɑ/ | á á /ɑ:/ | ai ai ái /ɛ/ | ái ái /aɪ/ | au au áu /ɔ/ | áu áu /ɑʊ/ | e e é /ɛ/ | é é /ɛ:/ | ei ei éi /e/ | éi éi /ɛɪ/ |
| eh eh /e/ | éh éh /e:/ | i i í /i/ | í í /i:/ | o o ó /o/ | ó ó /o:/ | oe oe óe /ø/ | óe óe /ø:/ | u u ú /u/ | ú ú /u:/ |
| ue ue úe /y/ | úe úe /y:/ | s s seh /s/ | z z zeh /z/ | ts ts tseh /t͡s/ | t t te /t/ | d d de /d/ | c c cue /ɕ/ | j j jue /ʑ/ | tj tj tcue /t͡ɕ/ |
| k k ke /k/ | g g ge /g/ | sh sh shu /ʂ/ | zh zh zhu /ʐ/ | ch ch chu /ʈ͡ʂ/ | p p pe /p/ | b b be /b/ | m m meh /m/ | n n neh /n/ | ng ng /ŋ/ |
| l l leh /l/ | r r reh /r/ | f f feh /f/ | w w wa /w/ | y y ya /j/ | h ' kon // | ||||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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