Lenesh [SIYAN]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Lenesh
Lenesh is a language spoken in the Federal Republic of Lenezan by around 56 million people (46 million natively). It is closely related to the neighboring 
Vosan and 
Shavakhoti languages, as all are Jiuzemic languages under the Vaniuan and ultimately Ryamaian language families. It happens to be rather unique for the area, as it is the one Western Vaniuan language to use nasal vowels as well as allative and ablative noun cases.
Vosan and Shavakhoti languages, as all are Jiuzemic languages under the Vaniuan and ultimately Ryamaian language families. It happens to be rather unique for the area, as it is the one Western Vaniuan language to use nasal vowels as well as allative and ablative noun cases.
Sample of Lenesh[view] Ę fuňagudętav hązuląh a še uvunav šú biuduvinona.
Actors are often mistaken for people of importance.[view all texts]
Actors are often mistaken for people of importance.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeVaniuan
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Proto-Vaniu
⤷ Proto-Western Vaniuan
⤷ Jiuzemic
⤷ Old Lenesh
⤷ Classical Lenesh
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Lenesh
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Proto-Vaniu⤷ Proto-Western Vaniuan
⤷ Jiuzemic
⤷ Old Lenesh
⤷ Classical Lenesh
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Lenesh[view] About VaniuanThe Vaniuan language is a family of languages originating from a disputed urheimat of either Western Parshita or around Lake Melkanchuta. Its descendant languages consist of around an estimated 400-700 Million speakers with varying phonologies, vocab...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ç | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | [i:] | u: | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | [e:] | o: | ||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ | ||||||||
| Near-open | ɐ ɐ̃ | |||||||||
| Open | [a:] | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ʊɐ̯ | ɪʊ̯ | ɛʊ̯ | ɛɪ̯ | ɐʊ̯ | ɔʊ̯ | ʊɪ̯ | ɔɪ̯ | ɪɐ̯ | ɐɪ̯ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Lenesh. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| LeneshOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Ll Ll /l/ | LV lv LU lu /w/ | Bb Bb /b/ | Pp Pp /p/ | Vv Vv /v/ | Ff Ff /f/ | Ss Ss /s/ | Zz Zz /z/ | Dd Dd /d/ | Ďď Jj /d͡ʒ/ | Tt Tt /t/ |
| Ťť Čč /t͡ʃ/ | Rr Rr /r/ | RV rv RU ru /w/ | Kk Kk /k/ | Gg Gg /g/ | Mm Mm /m/ | Jj Žž /ʒ/ | Cc Šš /ʃ/ | Þþ Cc /t͡s/ | Nn Nn /n/ | Ññ Ňň /ɲ/ |
| Yy Yy /ç/ | Hh Hh /:/ | Aa Aa /ɐ/, [a:] | Ãã Ąą /ɐ̃/ | Ii Ii /ɪ/, [i:] | Ee Ee /ɛ/, [e:] | Ẽẽ Ęę /ɛ̃/ | Oo Oo /ɔ/, [o:] | Uu Uu /ʊ/, [u:] | Õõ Ųų /ɔ̃/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
