Tarvelian [TVL]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tarvelian
Redux of a language for my NS nation, Tarvelia.
Some Characteristics:
-Phonemic stress
-Lack of true open vowels
-Complex consonant clusters (comparable to those of Slavic languages)
-OSV word order (an evident favorite of mine)
-Nominal and pronominal gender
-Subject-verb agreement pertaining to person, number, and gender
-Four verb tenses (infinitive, past, present, future)
-Unmarked aspect depending on tense (with tenses having an"assumed aspect")
-Three verb voices (passive, middle, and active), with active being unmarked
-Core vocabulary hinting at Nostratic origin, with moderate-to-strong phoneme correspondences
-High lexical density, and would be spoken at a more relaxed pace than English
Some Characteristics:
-Phonemic stress
-Lack of true open vowels
-Complex consonant clusters (comparable to those of Slavic languages)
-OSV word order (an evident favorite of mine)
-Nominal and pronominal gender
-Subject-verb agreement pertaining to person, number, and gender
-Four verb tenses (infinitive, past, present, future)
-Unmarked aspect depending on tense (with tenses having an"assumed aspect")
-Three verb voices (passive, middle, and active), with active being unmarked
-Core vocabulary hinting at Nostratic origin, with moderate-to-strong phoneme correspondences
-High lexical density, and would be spoken at a more relaxed pace than English
Sample of Tarvelian[view] Вуциогеже́ чу́гы думи́ һꝕ́зиһс лыз.
Richly colored bears still sleep through winter.[view all texts]
Richly colored bears still sleep through winter.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ȵ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | [ʈ]1 | ȶ | ȡ | k | g | |||||||||||
| Fricative | (f)2 | v | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | ɕ | ʑ | χ | ʁ3 | ɦ | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | ʈ͡ʂ | t͡ɕ | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j̟4 | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ks | ps | kv | ru |
- allophone of /t/
- In loanwords, colloquially pronounced /v/.
- Maybe realized as an approximate in many situations.
- Alveolo-palatal
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | y | ɯ | u |
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ʌ | ɔ |
Stress informationStress may fall on any of the last three syllables of a morpheme, and is marked in the languages morphology.
OtherThe voiceless stops and affricates can undergo gemination, which are realized as pre-voiced plosives.
а́тта (átta) is pronounced /ˈʌdtʌ/, етче́ (etché) is /ɛˈdtʃɛ/. In my dictionary these geminates will be transcribed with the IPA voicing mark: IE, /p̬/ in stead of /bp/, /t̬/ in stead of /dt/, and so on.
а́тта (átta) is pronounced /ˈʌdtʌ/, етче́ (etché) is /ɛˈdtʃɛ/. In my dictionary these geminates will be transcribed with the IPA voicing mark: IE, /p̬/ in stead of /bp/, /t̬/ in stead of /dt/, and so on.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tarvelian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TarvelianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Аа а /ʌ/ | Бб бе /b/ | Вв ве /v/ | Гг ге /g/ | Ӷӷ ге дунты́ /ȡ/ | Дд де /d/ | Ее е /ɛ/ | Ёё ё /œ/ | Жж же /ʐ/ | Җҗ же дунты́ /ʑ/ | Зз зе /z/ |
| Ҙҙ зе дунты́ /ɮ/ | Ѳѳ ѳе /ɬ/ | Ии и /i/ | Йй и арйопюле́ /j̟/1 | Кк ка /k/ | Лл ел /l/ | Мм ем /m/ | Нн ен /n/ | Ңң ен дунты́ /ȵ/ | Ҥҥ ҥе /ŋ/ | Ӡӡ ӡе /ks/ |
| Оо о /ɔ/ | Пп пе /p/ | ꟼҁ ҁу /kv/ | Рр ер /r/ | Ꝕꝕ ер йопюле́ /ru/ | Сс ес /s/ | Тт те /t/ | Ҭҭ те дунты́ /ȶ/ | Уу у /u/ | Ўў у арйопюле́ /w/ | Фф еф /f/2 |
| Хх ха /χ/ | Ѱѱ ѱе /ps/ | Һһ һа /ɦ/ | Цц це /t͡s/ | Чч че /ʈ͡ʂ/ | Ҷҷ че дунты́ /t͡ɕ/ | Шш ша /ʂ/ | Щщ ща дунты́ /ɕ/ | Ыы ы /ɯ/ | Ы̆ ы̆ ы арйопюле́ /ʁ/3 | Юю ю /y/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
- Alveolo-palatal
- In loanwords, colloquially pronounced /v/, loan words only
- Maybe realized as an approximate in many situations.
