Seb [SBM]
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Seb
Seb [sɛb̚]
SebSeb [sɛb̚]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Seb
A highly agglutinative substrate language without clearly-defined parts of speech.
Inspired by Trans-New Guinea languages such as Kalam, especially in terms of its phonology and orthography.
Inspired by Trans-New Guinea languages such as Kalam, especially in terms of its phonology and orthography.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Plosive | p | [b̚]1 ᵐb | t [t̚]2 | [d̚]3 ⁿd | [ɖ̚]4 ᶯɖ | k | [g̚]5 ᵑg | |||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]6 | s | [x]7 | h | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Lateral flap | [ɺ]8 | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]9 | |||||||||||||
- syllable-finally, allophone of /ᵐb/
- syllable-finally, allophone of /t/
- syllable-finally, allophone of /ⁿd/
- syllable-finally, allophone of /ᶯɖ/
- syllable-finally, allophone of /ᵑg/
- syllable-finally, allophone of /p/
- syllable-finally, allophone of /k/
- realisation of /l/ in some dialects
- realisation of /l/ in some dialects
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | ä | |||||
- epenthetic
Syllable StructureSyllable structure is (C)V(C). Orthographical consonant clusters which do not appear to follow this structure are broken by an unwritten epenthetic schwa.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Seb. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SebOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/ä/ | Bb/ᵐb/, [b̚]1 | Dd/ⁿd/, [d̚]2 | Ee/ɛ/ | Gg/ᵑg/, [g̚]3 | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/, [x]4 | Ll/l/, [r]5, [ɺ]6 |
| Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/, [ɸ]7 | Rr/ᶯɖ/, [ɖ̚]8 | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/, [t̚]9 | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
- syllable-finally
- syllable-finally
- syllable-finally
- syllable-finally
- realisation of /l/ in some dialects
- realisation of /l/ in some dialects
- syllable-finally
- syllable-finally
- syllable-finally
