Standard Kwang [SDQ]
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Language type
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Place & SpeakersStandard Kwang is spoken in Qonklaks.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Standard Kwang
The official language of Qonklaks, Standard Kwang is spoken natively by only around 25 million, but is understood by nearly everyone in the country, with over 80 million nonnative speakers.
Syllable structure is (C)(G)V, where G is a glide in [w,y] and V is a vowel-register-(nasalization) combination. Like its ancestor
Middle Kwang, Standard Kwang has four 'registers', which are tone-length-phonation combinations. So although syllable structure is very simple, there are tons of possible syllables due to its rich consonant inventory and the phonetic complexity of vowels.
NEW: Check out the pretty grammar document here!
Meta: Arryog registered the language and suggested an aesthetic, dendana did the sound changes and historical derivation + phonology/grammar and most of the words, Quancius did over a hundred words and made glyphs, clawgrip made glyphs.
The official language of Qonklaks, Standard Kwang is spoken natively by only around 25 million, but is understood by nearly everyone in the country, with over 80 million nonnative speakers.
Syllable structure is (C)(G)V, where G is a glide in [w,y] and V is a vowel-register-(nasalization) combination. Like its ancestor
Middle Kwang, Standard Kwang has four 'registers', which are tone-length-phonation combinations. So although syllable structure is very simple, there are tons of possible syllables due to its rich consonant inventory and the phonetic complexity of vowels.NEW: Check out the pretty grammar document here!
Meta: Arryog registered the language and suggested an aesthetic, dendana did the sound changes and historical derivation + phonology/grammar and most of the words, Quancius did over a hundred words and made glyphs, clawgrip made glyphs.
Sample of Standard KwangCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeNgerupic
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Oã' Ñi
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Wa Ñi
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Proto-Kwang
⤷ Middle Kwang
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Standard Kwang
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Oã' Ñi⤷
Wa Ñi⤷
Proto-Kwang⤷
Middle Kwang⤷
Standard Kwang[view] About NgerupicA large language family from the northern Big Continent of the Aay world / from former Sharkunen in Sahar.
Named for Wa Ñi ŋèrup(a) 'people'.
Named for Wa Ñi ŋèrup(a) 'people'.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m m̥ | n n̥ | ɲ ɲ̥ | ŋ ŋ̥ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | b | t tʰ | d | k kʰ | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | s | z | ʃ | ʒ1 | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w w̥ | ||||||||||||
- most common realization of /lj/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i᷄ˀ īˀ í ì | u᷄ˀ ūˀ ú ù | ||
| Close-mid | e᷄ˀ é è | o᷄ˀ ó ò | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ᷄ˀ ɛ̄ˀ ɛ́ ɛ̀ | ɔ᷄ˀ ɔ̄ˀ ɔ́ ɔ̀ | ||
| Open | a᷄ˀ āˀ ã́ ã̀ á à | |||
| Polyphthongs | eɪ̄ˀ eɪ̃́ eɪ̃̀ | oʊ̄ˀ oʊ̃́ oʊ̃̀ | aɪ̃́ aɪ̃̀ | aʊ̃́ aʊ̃̀ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Standard Kwang. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Standard KwangOrthography | |||||||||
| Aa/á/ | Àà/à/ | Ãã/a᷄ˀ/ | AI ai/ɛ́/ | ÀI ài/ɛ̀/ | ÃI ãi/ɛ᷄ˀ/ | AIN ain/aɪ̃́/ | ÀIN àin/aɪ̃̀/ | AIQ aiq/ɛ̄ˀ/ | AN an/ã́/ |
| ÀN àn/ã̀/ | AQ aq/āˀ/ | AUN aun/aʊ̃́/ | ÀUN àun/aʊ̃̀/ | AUQ auq/ɔ̄ˀ/ | AW aw/ɔ́/ | ÀW àw/ɔ̀/ | ÃW ãw/ɔ᷄ˀ/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ |
| Dd/d/ | Ee/é/ | Èè/è/ | Ẽẽ/e᷄ˀ/ | EIN ein/eɪ̃́/ | ÈIN èin/eɪ̃̀/ | EIQ eiq/eɪ̄ˀ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/í/ |
| Ìì/ì/ | Ĩĩ/i᷄ˀ/ | IQ iq/īˀ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | KH kh/kʰ/ | Ll/l/ | LH lh/ɬ/ | LY ly/ʒ/1 | Mm/m/ |
| MH mh/m̥/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NGH ngh/ŋ̥/ | NH nh/n̥/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | NYH nyh/ɲ̥/ | Oo/ó/ | Òò/ò/ | Õõ/o᷄ˀ/ |
| OUN oun/oʊ̃́/ | ÒUN òun/oʊ̃̀/ | OUQ ouq/oʊ̄ˀ/ | Pp/p/ | PH ph/pʰ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/tʰ/ | Uu/ú/ |
| Ùù/ù/ | Ũũ/u᷄ˀ/ | UQ uq/ūˀ/ | Ww/w/ | WH wh/w̥/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | |||
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||
- most common realization of /lj/
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