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Kêrin [TRIL]
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New 16 words Kêrin
Vuẍkêrinâꝁ ⁷Tivkdaꝁtêʞ
[ðɯẍḱəriqɑ! 7tiðḱᶄ́a!təx̌]*
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 13 March 2023
Language type Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species Thri-Kreen
About Kêrin Language spoken by a nomadic culture of Thri-Kreen inhabiting the jungles that border the main elven kingdoms. Thri-Kreen have evolved longer, more flexible maxillae that have migrated to the inside of the mouth, and these are vibrated and tapped against various mouthparts to produce phonemes.

-Spiraculatives function mostly like tone, indicated by adding a number before the 1st letter.

-Analytic, with complicated spatial deixis. Extensive use of noun class, which affects pluralisation and mildly affects word order. Dictionary entries are given in their prefix-less base forms, pretty much never used in actual speech. Generally SVO, evidence that older, less analytic forms of the language might have been SOV, but word order shifted due to pervasive use of zero-marking. Possession is simply done by placing two nouns, or a noun and a pronoun, next to each other, with the first being the possessor and the second being what is possessed.

-Extremely unusual for a Kreen language (In most, vowels are optional and somewhat uncommon since their vocalisation is non-pulmonic, spiraculatives also uncommon, and those languages that have either or both generally have only a very few. CVC structure also very odd, influence from non-Kreen languages.)

-No native writing yet
Sample of Kêrin[view] ⁵Ḡīꝁ ⁷daꝁ Vuẍkêrinâꝁ ⁷Tivkdaꝁtêʞ.

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Language family relationships
[edit] [view] ¹Dunkêrīn Vuẍkêrin ⁷Daꝁtêʞ (Human-Pronounceable Kreen )A Kreen register where sounds are substituted with human-pronounceable ones.
Phonology
[view]Phonological System: Thri-KreenUses the KPA by u/MobiusFlip (https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/6p59py/comment/dkn2elg) with a few slight modifications (dividing Ligular into Glossic and Paraglossic and less vibratives). All credit goes to them.

Glossic - involves the Glossa
Paraglossic - involves Paraglossa
Vibratives - made by rapidly vibrating certain body parts
Spiraculatives - made by forcing air through spiracles, distinguished by degree of spiracle closure, so s5 is 50% closure, etc.
Table #1MandibularLabrumalGlossicParaglossicMentumalSubmentumalHypopharyngeal
Percussive !  ǂ  ǀ  
Plosive k t   ƫ  q
Click ᶄ́   1 
Chirr θ  x r  χ
  1. Mentumal in Northern Pack Dialect
Table #2StrongSoft
Palpitative ʒ z
Maxillary ð þ
Hypopharyngeal ɣ
Table #3A
s10 1
s30 3
s50 5
s70 7
s90 9
Table #4FrontCentralBack
Close i i:  ɯ
Close-mid e e:  
Mid  ə 
Open a  ɑ
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kêrin. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KêrinOrthography [edit]
Ââ/ɑ/Aa/a/Cc/k/Dd/ᶄ́/Êê/ə/Ee/e/Ēē/e:/Ff/þ/Gg/ć/1
Ḡḡ/ƫ/Īī/i:/Ii/i/Kk/ḱ/Nn/q/Rr/r/Ss/z/Ţţ/t́/Tt/t/
Uu/ɯ/Vv/ð/Xx/x/Ẍ ẍ/ẍ/Zz/ʒ/³/3/¹/1/Þþ/θ/Đđ/ǂ/
Ƌƌ/ᶄ/Ɣɣ/χ/Ǥǥ/ǀ/Ʞʞ/x̌//ɣ//5//7//9/Ꝁꝁ/!/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
  1. Mentumal in Northern Pack Dialect
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Noun Class in Kêrin
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11-Feb-24 08:18
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