Solgan [SLG]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Solgan
A little experiment playing with Han characters and a modified hangeul. This is an agglutinative language. It's supposed to be spoken by an ethnic group around the North Korean-Chinese border. The language is related to neither.
It is an ergative-absolutive language that favors suffixes, usually written in the aforementioned modified hangeul (called drolcheyda/音文, meaning "sound-script"). Drolcheyda corresponded to Hangeul a lot more for Old Solgan than it does now, due to sound changes. Any Solgan word can be written in drolcheyda. As a whole, the writing system is usually written up-to-down, right-to-left. This is even the case in print and most electronic media.
I've been wanting to do an E-B language, but never really knew how. I think I have it now, but I may still get something wrong with this system. With that little disclaimer out of the way, the word order is Agent-Patient-Verb in transitive sentences, and Argument-Verb in intransitive sentences. The verb ending changes in relation to the argument/patient, tense, and mood.
Below is a sample of Solgan writing, using the translation for the Lord's Prayer.
I'm considering giving the adjectival/genitive marker "은" its own ideograph, given how common it is. Other than that, I'm quite happy with how the writing system has turned out thus far.
It is an ergative-absolutive language that favors suffixes, usually written in the aforementioned modified hangeul (called drolcheyda/音文, meaning "sound-script"). Drolcheyda corresponded to Hangeul a lot more for Old Solgan than it does now, due to sound changes. Any Solgan word can be written in drolcheyda. As a whole, the writing system is usually written up-to-down, right-to-left. This is even the case in print and most electronic media.
I've been wanting to do an E-B language, but never really knew how. I think I have it now, but I may still get something wrong with this system. With that little disclaimer out of the way, the word order is Agent-Patient-Verb in transitive sentences, and Argument-Verb in intransitive sentences. The verb ending changes in relation to the argument/patient, tense, and mood.
Below is a sample of Solgan writing, using the translation for the Lord's Prayer.
I'm considering giving the adjectival/genitive marker "은" its own ideograph, given how common it is. Other than that, I'm quite happy with how the writing system has turned out thus far.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
Fricative | v | s | z | ʃ | x | h | ||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ̝ | ||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Blends | rɑ | rʌ | re̞ | ro̞ | ri | ru |
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
Close | i | u | ||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||
Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||||||
Open-mid | ʌ | |||||||
Near-open | [æ]3 | |||||||
Open | ɑ |
Polyphthongs | o̞ʊ̯ | æʊ̯ | ʌʊ̯ | ɪʊ̯ | e̞ʊ̯ |
- Realization of /i/ in closed syllables, allophone of /i/
- Realization of /u/ in closed syllables, allophone of /u/
- Realization of /ɑ/ in closed syllables, allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Solgan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
SolganOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/x/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e̞/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | N̈ n̈/ŋ/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ |
SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/ɬ/ | Uu/u/ | Ùù/ʌ/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |