Riziyati [RZYT]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersRiziyati is spoken by a population of around 350,000,000 in Riziyat.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Riziyati
Riziyati, or natively Riziyatyam, is a language spoken in the fictional world of Shetelkh. It is the world's most widely spoken language by number of native speakers. More than 300 million people speak it as a native language, while millions more are forced to know it, as it is the lingua franca of the Riziyati Republic and all its subordinate territories.
It is a member of the Eastern branch of the Vien Rizan language family. Its closest linguistic relative is Khen'am.
Riziyatyam
Riziyati, or natively Riziyatyam, is a language spoken in the fictional world of Shetelkh. It is the world's most widely spoken language by number of native speakers. More than 300 million people speak it as a native language, while millions more are forced to know it, as it is the lingua franca of the Riziyati Republic and all its subordinate territories.
It is a member of the Eastern branch of the Vien Rizan language family. Its closest linguistic relative is Khen'am.
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Language family relationships
Language treeVien Rizan
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Proto-Vien Rizan
⤷ Eastern Vien Rizan
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Riziyati
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Proto-Vien Rizan⤷ Eastern Vien Rizan
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Riziyati[view] About Vien RizanThe Vien Rizan languages are a fictional language family from the fantasy world of Shetelkh. It is spoken by nearly 600 million people, which makes it Shetelkh's largest language family by number of speakers.
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[edit] [view] Riziyatyam Yahnanshe (Lower Riziyati)Lower Riziyati (Ri: Riziyatyam Yahnanshe) is a dialect of the Riziyati language spoken in the macroregion of Lower Larahnad. The dialect is distinct for its flowery vocabulary and ornate writing. Grammar is strict and directs the writer towards more poetic forms.
[edit] [view] Riziyatyam Deyüdzhe (Upper Riziyati)Upper Riziyati (Ri: Riziyatyam Deyüdzhe) is a dialect of the Riziyati language spoken in the macroregion of Upper Larahnad. Its speakers use characteristically less flowery language than their lower counterparts, and prefer to speak in a more laconic fashion. For this reason, the dialect is less grammatically strict, but uses more agglutination and nominalization to easily create new words and terms.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||
| Fricative | v | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | x | ||||||
| Affricate | ʈ͡ʂ | ɖ͡ʐ | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | y | u | |
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Riziyati. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| RiziyatiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | DZH dzh/ɖ͡ʐ/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ |
| Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʂ/ | Tt/t/ |
| TSH tsh/ʈ͡ʂ/ | Uu/u/ | Üü/y/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʐ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
