Deserta [TAXR]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersDeserta is spoken by a population of 5,521 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Deserta
Language for the fictional desert people. Foreigners like to claim they have the most beautiful speech.
They call themselves the "Sand and Sky's People"
They call themselves the "Sand and Sky's People"
Language family relationships
[view] About FasilianCovers most of the languages on the west side of the Second Continent, as well as some others
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Other | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | [p̪͡f] | b̪͡v | [t͡s]1 | [d͡z]2 | [t͡ʃ]3 | [d͡ʒ]4 | [k͡x]5 | [t͡ɬ]6 | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /z/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /ʒ/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /ɬ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i ĩ | u ũ | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ ɪ̃ | ʏ ʏ̃ | ||||
| Close-mid | [o]1 [õ]2 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ | ||||
| Open | [a]3 [ã]4 | ɑ ɑ̃ | ||||
- allophone of /ɔ/
- allophone of /ɔ/
- allophone of /ɑ/
- allophone of /ɑ/
Othergrave symbol means nasalized
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Deserta. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 DesertaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa Andèr /ɑ/ | Bb Bï /b/ | Cc Ec /ʃ/ | Cz cz Ecz /ʒ/ | Dd Dï /d/ | Ee E /ɛ/ | Ff Ef /f/ | Gg Czï /g/ | Ɨï Ɨdzï /i/ | Ii Itsa /ɪ/ |
| Jj Jou /j/ | Kk Kej /k/ | Ll El /l/ | Lh lh Lhï /ɬ/ | Mm Em /m/ | Nn En /n/ | Ng ng Eng /ŋ/ | Nj nj Enj /ɳ/ | Oo Oxaj /ɔ/ | Pp Pï /p/ |
| Rr Rï /ɾ/ | Ss Es /s/ | Tt Tï /t/ | Uu Wu /u/ | Vv Vï /b̪͡v/ | Ww Wej /w/ | Xx Ex /x/ | Yy Ypel /ʏ/ | Zz Zï /z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
