Sunbyaku [SUN]
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19 words
Sunbyaku
Sunbyaku [sunbjaku]*
Sunbyaku [sunbjaku]*
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sunbyaku
Sunbyaku, literally "Sun-speech", is the language of the Sun, who live in the eastern area of the Dorissadma continent on the planet Thōselqat. Approximately 150 million people speak it, almost all in its native land of Sunzaku. This dictionary goes over the main prestige dialect spoken by the capital city of Hyūmaojun, but some slang from other dialects is documented.
Sunbyaku is frequently thought to be an isolate but it is actually the most spoken of the Sunonū language family. It's relatives all have less than 5,000 speakers each but revitalization programs are occurring.
Sunbyaku is frequently thought to be an isolate but it is actually the most spoken of the Sunonū language family. It's relatives all have less than 5,000 speakers each but revitalization programs are occurring.
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | [c] | [ɟ] | k | g | ||||||||
Fricative | s | z | ɕ | ʑ | h | |||||||||||
Affricate | (t͡s) | (d͡z) | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | j | w | |||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||
Open | a a: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sunbyaku. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
SunbyakuOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Āā/a:/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ēē/e:/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
Īī/i:/ | Jj/d͡ʑ/, [ɟ] | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Ōō/o:/ | Pp/p/ |
Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Ūū/u:/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/ʋ/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |