Shele [SHEL]
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Shele
Shishele [ʃiʃele]
SheleShishele [ʃiʃele]
Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 12 April 2020
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Shele
Basically, an orgy of Bantu languages that sounds like if Shona and Polish had a baby. My first conlang which is not from my conworld. I'm making this one just for fun and probably gonna abandon it someday.
Some features:
- Highly agluttinative
- Loves prefixes and interfixes
- Reflexive prefixes and object prefixes included
- The word order is rather free, but mainly SVO
- Adjectives, possessive pronouns and numerals come after the noun
- 7 noun classes for: humans/animals, dead humans and animals, paranormal beings, plants/mushrooms/microorganisms, inanimate objects, non-physical/abstract things/ideas, and the verbal stuff(including languages)
- Palatalisation and labialisation
Some features:
- Highly agluttinative
- Loves prefixes and interfixes
- Reflexive prefixes and object prefixes included
- The word order is rather free, but mainly SVO
- Adjectives, possessive pronouns and numerals come after the noun
- 7 noun classes for: humans/animals, dead humans and animals, paranormal beings, plants/mushrooms/microorganisms, inanimate objects, non-physical/abstract things/ideas, and the verbal stuff(including languages)
- Palatalisation and labialisation
Sample of Shele[view] Kana jiva gushalakha jitwa ya umntu, izish hantu. Iz hagenge. Iz vifara.
If a pool cuts a man's head off, it's not a personality. It's physics. It's fun.[view all texts]
If a pool cuts a man's head off, it's not a personality. It's physics. It's fun.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Shele
Some sound samples of Shele. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Kana jiva gushalakha jitwa ya umntu, izish hantu. Iz hagenge. Iz vifara.
If a pool cuts a man's head off, it's not a personality. It's physics. It's fun.
If a pool cuts a man's head off, it's not a personality. It's physics. It's fun.
Mnyzpfazha uma nu vamagi kukha uvopfa mingi nga vazwin. Kutsangdzataga ces za zhishin wacuk zakabzha...
The good thing about mages, I find, is that they die much like any other. You need to worry about wh...
The good thing about mages, I find, is that they die much like any other. You need to worry about wh...
Izi kutest
This is a test
This is a test
Knylisha vawal vatatsu wakara waz ya vashanza.
I fed his three of those five black dogs.
I fed his three of those five black dogs.
Knywetswemizhi virizho kumkuzamakha vithawzo kwenanikhakha?
Have I finally convinced you that it's always best to be who you are?
Have I finally convinced you that it's always best to be who you are?
Tswecita shin, Karen? Vamenejer shmvohakukha.
What are you gonna do, Karen? There are no managers out here.
What are you gonna do, Karen? There are no managers out here.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ | n | ȵ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ t̪ʷ t̪ʲ | d̪ d̪ʷ d̪ʲ | t | d | k kʲ kʰ | g gʲ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f fʲ | v vʷ vʲ | s s̺ʷ | z z̺ʷ | ʃ | ʒ | ç | h | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | p͡ɸ | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ȴ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ ɾʲ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Shele. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SheleOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | DH dh/d̪/ | DW dw/d̪ʷ/ | DY dy/d̪ʲ/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ |
| FY fy/fʲ/ | Gg/g/ | GY gy/gʲ/ | Hh/h/ | HY hy/ç/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | KH kh/kʰ/ | KY ky/kʲ/ |
| Ll/l/ | LY ly/ȴ/ | Mm/m/ | MY my/mʲ/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NY ny/ȵ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | PF pf/p͡ɸ/ |
| Rr/ɾ/ | RY ry/ɾʲ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | SW sw/s̺ʷ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/t̪/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | TW tw/t̪ʷ/ | TY ty/t̪ʲ/ |
| Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | VW vw/vʷ/ | VY vy/vʲ/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ | ZW zw/z̺ʷ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
