Telfthanic [TELF]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Telfthanic
This is a language I'm creating that is spoken in a fictional island nation in the Northern Pacific
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Other | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | c | k | ||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]2 | f | θ | s | ʃ | [ʂ]3 | ç | [ʝ]4 | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | p̪͡f | t̪͡θ | t͡s | t͡ʃ | c͡ç | t͡ɬ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l [lʲ]5 | ʎ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ ɬʲ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ | j | w | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | [xj]6 | [kj]7 | [nj]8 |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /j/
- allophone of /ʎ/
- allophone of /ç/
- allophone of /c/
- allophone of /ɲ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | [i]1 | [y]2 | [u]3 | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ ɪ: | ʏ ʏ: | ʊ ʊ: | |||||||
| Close-mid | [e]4 | [ø]5 | [o]6 | |||||||
| Mid | ə ə: | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | œ œ: | ɔ ɔ: | |||||||
| Near-open | æ æ: | |||||||||
| Open | [a]7 | [ä]8 | ||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɛɪ | [ʊu]9 | ɔɪ | ɪə | [ɪi]10 | ɪɛ | æɪ | ɪa |
- allophone of /ɪ/
- allophone of /ʏ/
- allophone of /ʊ/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /œ/
- allophone of /ɔ/
- allophone of /æ/
- allophone of /æ/
- allophone of /ʊ/
- allophone of /ɪ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Telfthanic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TelfthanicOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa Aa an /æ/ | AI ai AI ai /æɪ/ | Ā ã Ā ā ān /æ:/ | Cc Cc aca /c/ | CYH ch CYH cyh /c͡ç/ | Ee Ee en /ɛ/ | EI ei EI ei /ɛɪ/ | Ē ç Ē ē ēn /ɛ:/ | Ff Ff afa /f/ | Ii Ii in /ɪ/ |
| IA ia IA ia /ɪa/ | IE ie IE ie /ɪɛ/ | IV iv IV iv /ɪə/ | Ī å Ī ī īn /ɪ:/ | Jj Jj aja /j/ | Kk Kk aka /k/ | Ll Ll ala /l/ | LH q LH lh alha /ɬ/ | LJ x LJ lj alja /ʎ/ | LJH à LJH ljh aljha /ɬʲ/ |
| Mm Mm ama /m/ | Nn Nn ana /n/ | NJ b NJ nj anja /ɲ/ | Oo Oo on /ɔ/ | OI oi OI oi /ɔɪ/ | Ō æ Ō ō ōn /ɔ:/ | Pp Pp apa /p/ | PF pf PF pf /p̪͡f/ | Rr Rr ara /ɻ/ | Ss Ss asa /s/ |
| SH g SH sh asha /ʃ/ | Tt Tt ata /t/ | TLH tq TLH tlh /t͡ɬ/ | TS ts TS ts /t͡s/ | TSH tg TSH tsh /t͡ʃ/ | TÞ td TÞ tþ /t̪͡θ/ | Uu Uu un /ʊ/ | Ū ê Ū ū ūn /ʊ:/ | Vv Vv vn /ə/ | V̄ ë V̄ v̄ v̄n /ə:/ |
| Ww Ww awa /w/ | Yy Yy yn /ʏ/ | YH h YH yh ayha /ç/ | Ȳ ä Ȳ ȳ ȳn /ʏ:/ | Øz Øø øn /œ/ | Ø̄ è Ø̄ ø̄ ø̄n /œ:/ | Þd Þþ aþa /θ/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
