Altean [TEA]
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Altean
Altean [ælɛæn]*
AlteanAltean [ælɛæn]*
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Language type
Other
Species
Human/humanoid
About Altean
An attempt to flesh out the Altean language referenced in Voltron: Legendary Defender.
Sample of AlteanCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | d | [k]1 | g | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | h | |||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | [ɫ]2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ɹ]3 | j | w | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Click | ǁ | |||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /l/
- only in the coda of syllables, allophone of /ɾ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | ʉ | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||
- only found in unstressed syllables, allophone of /ʉ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Altean. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AlteanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/æ/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Kk[k] | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/, [ɹ]1 | Ss/s/ | Üü/ʉ/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/ǁ/, /w/ | Xx[k] | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- only in the coda of syllables
