The Old Tongue [TDL]
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The Old Tongue
i'os spik [iʔos spik]
The Old Tonguei'os spik [iʔos spik]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About The Old Tongue
This is the language of the ancients, as old as... well... thought, this language was derived from how the 'True' gods of The Exodium communicated, originally a purely verbal language, it rapidly gained a written form used by the natives of the Realm of Dreams
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | [v]1 | θ | [ð]2 | s | [ʃ]3 | [ʒ]4 | ç | χ | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t̪͡θ | [d̪͡ð]5 | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ç/
- allophone of /t̪͡θ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | o | |||||
| Mid | e̞ | ə | ||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||
| Polyphthongs | io | e̞u | e̞o | oi | e̞ɑ | ɑi | e̞i | iu | au | iɑ |
| ui |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for The Old Tongue. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 The Old TongueOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Ää/ɑ/ | Aa/a/ | AI ai/ɑi/ | AU au/au/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e̞/ | Ëë/ə/ |
| EA ea/e̞ɑ/ | EI ei/e̞i/ | EO eo/e̞o/ | EU eu/e̞u/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | IA ia/iɑ/ | IO io/io/ |
| IU iu/iu/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ | OI oi/oi/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ |
| RR rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | UI ui/ui/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/χ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/ç/ | Θθ/θ/, /t̪͡θ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
