Tschintierst [TSCH]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tschintierst
tczh-as-cho-shnz-e-shi-shi-to
Tåchzåss tschö schans eschischitö!
Spoken throughout the Gintem Confederation on Jotunnheim, this language is considered one of the strangest of the Yasgan family. It's features include: Vowel harmony throughout entire words (with no exception for loanwords), a three-way animacy distinction, directional verb affixes, and initial consonant mutation. Shares the same script as its behated cousin,
Dhimze (which I created the pretty font for :))
Spoken throughout the Gintem Confederation on Jotunnheim, this language is considered one of the strangest of the Yasgan family. It's features include: Vowel harmony throughout entire words (with no exception for loanwords), a three-way animacy distinction, directional verb affixes, and initial consonant mutation. Shares the same script as its behated cousin,
Dhimze (which I created the pretty font for :))Language family relationships
Language treeYasgan
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Proto-Yasgan
⤷ Proto-Tschintieric
⤷ Old Tschintiesteirst
⤷ Old High Tschintierst
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Tschintierst
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Proto-Yasgan⤷ Proto-Tschintieric
⤷ Old Tschintiesteirst
⤷ Old High Tschintierst
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Tschintierst[view] About YasganOne of the primary language families in the world of Jotunnheim.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ɕ | x | ʁ | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ɕ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]1 | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /ʁ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | y y: | ɯ ɯ: | u u: | ||
| Close-mid | e e: | ø ø: | o o: | |||
| Near-open | [ɐ̯]1 | |||||
| Open | a a: | ɑ ɑ: | ||||
- allophone of /ʁ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tschintierst. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| TschintierstOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Åå/ɑ/ | AA aa/a:/ | ÅÅ åå/ɑ:/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/x/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | EE ee/e:/ | Gg/g/ |
| Hh/x/1 | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Öö/ø/ | Oo/o/ | ÖÖ öö/ø:/ |
| OO oo/o:/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ʁ/ | Ss/z/ | SCH sch/ɕ/ | SS ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TSCH tsch/t͡ɕ/ | Uu/u/ | Üü/y/ |
| UU uu/u:/ | ÜÜ üü/y:/ | Vv/f/ | Ww/v/ | Yy/ɯ/ | YY yy/ɯ:/ | Zz/t͡s/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- only used at the beginning of words
