The Faery's Language [SIPYA]
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The Faery's Language
Fám'áoven [fæmʊvɛn]*
The Faery's LanguageFám'áoven [fæmʊvɛn]*
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersThe Faery's Language is spoken in Faerytopia.
Species
Human/humanoid
About The Faery's Language
The universal language of all fae (fairy, pixie, mer[maid]) in Faerytopia. It is spoken gently with emphasis on "soft" sounds (bilabial consonants) and a complete lack of "hard" sounds (dental consonants).
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Epiglottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | d | g | ||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | ð | z | ɕ | ʑ | x | ʜ | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | d͡z | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | w | |||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɽ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | ʉ | ɯ1 | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ2 | ʊ3 | ||||||||
| Mid | o̞4 | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
| Near-open | æ5 | |||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
- "oo-ah"
- like the "I" in "I am"
- like "ow" or "(ou)ch"
- like the "oi" in "oink"
- like the A in "Ate"
Orthography
Below is the orthography for The Faery's Language. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 The Faery's LanguageOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| i/i/ | p/p/ | b/b/ | m/m/ | e/ɛ/ | w/w/ | hv/ʋ/ | v/v/ | f/f/ | í/ɪ/1 | t/ð/ |
| d/d/ | n/n/ | á/æ/2 | s/ɕ/ | z/z/ | ƶ/d͡z/ | j/ʑ/ | a/a/ | l/l/ | r/ɽ/ | rr/r/ |
| y/j/ | ó/o̞/3 | o/ɔ/ | u/ʉ/ | h/ʜ/ | áo/ʊ/4 | x/x/ | ua/ɯ/5 | g/g/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
- like the "I" in "I am"
- like the A in "Ate"
- like the "oi" in "oink"
- like "ow" or "(ou)ch"
- "oo-ah"
