Standard Laoran [SDLA]
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Laora Iabromis Lesmim [lɛioʊra hiɑbroʊmhis lɛsmɪm]
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Laora Iabromis Lesmim [lɛioʊra hiɑbroʊmhis lɛsmɪm]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Standard Laoran
The Standard Laoran language is the intracontinental language of commerce. It brings diverse cultures together for a better tomorrow for all. It is largely based on the so-called “Old Laoran” language that many of our most enduring historical works were written in nearly a millennia ago.
The Standard Laoran Committee (SLC) formalized the first draft of grammar and spelling in 359 A3 and 10 years later in 369 A3 it was ratified by the Continental Nations Organization by an overwhelming vote. Every year ending with a 9 the SLC meets again at a location voted on by its members, often the University of Kinjir or the Grand Hall at Melunbek, where they propose and vote on extensions to the language. Standard Laoran has changed very little in the last 500 years, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of understanding for any document in perpetuity.
Instruction in Standard Laoran is compulsory for students in all major municipalities and this handbook will help introduce you to the only language spoken by more than half of the population across the continent.
Old Laoran was the native language of the Laora. Their poets, philosophers, and scholars spread the language through the major universities of the 2nd Age. In the modern age, the language of the Laora (Ulliaran) has changed so much that that Standard Laoran is nearly as foreign to them as it is to native speakers of Neffetic or Woderr.
The Standard Laoran Committee (SLC) formalized the first draft of grammar and spelling in 359 A3 and 10 years later in 369 A3 it was ratified by the Continental Nations Organization by an overwhelming vote. Every year ending with a 9 the SLC meets again at a location voted on by its members, often the University of Kinjir or the Grand Hall at Melunbek, where they propose and vote on extensions to the language. Standard Laoran has changed very little in the last 500 years, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of understanding for any document in perpetuity.
Instruction in Standard Laoran is compulsory for students in all major municipalities and this handbook will help introduce you to the only language spoken by more than half of the population across the continent.
Old Laoran was the native language of the Laora. Their poets, philosophers, and scholars spread the language through the major universities of the 2nd Age. In the modern age, the language of the Laora (Ulliaran) has changed so much that that Standard Laoran is nearly as foreign to them as it is to native speakers of Neffetic or Woderr.
Language family relationships
Language treeLaoran
⤷ Proto-Laoran
⤷ Old Laoran
⤷ Classical Laoran
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Standard Laoran
⤷ Proto-Laoran
⤷ Old Laoran
⤷ Classical Laoran
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Standard Laoran[view] About LaoranThe Laoran language family is a collection of languages that have developed over the last two millennia from some unattested language or languages referred to as Proto-Laoran.
Old Laoran includes early monolithic inscriptions in an abjad writing...
Old Laoran includes early monolithic inscriptions in an abjad writing...
[view] Laora Nanab (Standard Laoran (Colloquial))The unofficial official language of Boromesea and environs is Standard Laoran with slang, borrowings from other tongues, and new grammatical features - many lifted directly from its cousin Ulliaran and others invented wholesale according to the needs of merchants, sorcerers, artists, sailors, thieves, scallywags, and scoundrels of all kinds.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Plosive | b | k | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||
| Polyphthongs | iɑ | ioʊ | ɛioʊ | oʊ |
Syllable StructureStandard Laoran syllables are either CVC or V alone when spoken.
Doubled letters may occur when adding affixes and making compounds. Some of these doubled letters are dropped. Doubled vowels are always dropped, though this only happens with utility words, which have their own section. Vowels which can form sequences (shown in the Vowel table) are merged and those which cannot must be put into separate syllables. The class of consonants that are dropped are called “cut” while the consonants which are not dropped are called “kept”. Kept consonants are usually split into separate syllables, but if this isn’t possible they instead merge into one long consonant.
Cut:
n
l
b
f
s
Kept"
m
r
k
If you see a doubled cut consonant it is pronounced as a long consonant, which is slightly extended in length when pronounced, whereas a doubled kept consonant indicates a syllable split between them.
While root words already match the CVC structure, many prefixes and suffixes do not. To pronounce the resulting word, we insert a short consonant sound to the opposite side of the vowel from the existing consonant. This happens after dropping or merging cut/kept consonants. This is called the “ghost” consonant.
Doubled letters may occur when adding affixes and making compounds. Some of these doubled letters are dropped. Doubled vowels are always dropped, though this only happens with utility words, which have their own section. Vowels which can form sequences (shown in the Vowel table) are merged and those which cannot must be put into separate syllables. The class of consonants that are dropped are called “cut” while the consonants which are not dropped are called “kept”. Kept consonants are usually split into separate syllables, but if this isn’t possible they instead merge into one long consonant.
Cut:
n
l
b
f
s
Kept"
m
r
k
If you see a doubled cut consonant it is pronounced as a long consonant, which is slightly extended in length when pronounced, whereas a doubled kept consonant indicates a syllable split between them.
While root words already match the CVC structure, many prefixes and suffixes do not. To pronounce the resulting word, we insert a short consonant sound to the opposite side of the vowel from the existing consonant. This happens after dropping or merging cut/kept consonants. This is called the “ghost” consonant.
Stress informationThe second syllable of a word is always the one stressed.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Standard Laoran. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Standard LaoranOrthography | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AH ah/ɑ/ | AO ao/ɛioʊ/ | Bb/b/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EO eo/ioʊ/ | Ff/f/ | Ii/ɪ/ | IA ia/iɑ/ |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/oʊ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Uu/u/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||
