Urkobold [UKB]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Urkobold
Urkobold is spoken by the first kobolds of Falranda. As a god-given language it has not yet developed any irregularities. It is notable for it's use of the phone [¡], the sublaminal lower-alveolar percussive (mostly known due to it's participation in clicking the tongue [!¡]) and for the absence of verbs, which are replaced via creative use of cases.
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Sound samples in Urkobold
Some sound samples of Urkobold. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
r'uim nödžuin
Life is difficult
Life is difficult
Language family relationships
Language treeFalranda Kobold
⤷ Urkobold
⤷ Urkobold
[view] About Falranda KoboldThe family of languages on Falranda rooted in the Urkobold language.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Velar | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ɳ]1 | ŋ | ||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||
Fricative | ɸ | β | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ɕ | ʑ | ||||
Lateral approximant | l | [ɭ]2 | ||||||||||
Approximant | ɹ | [ɻ]3 |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /ɹ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i | y | u | |||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | |||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||
Open-mid | [ɛ]2 | ɞ | ||||||
Open | a |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /e/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Urkobold. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
UrkoboldOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/, [ɛ] | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/, [ɪ] | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/, [ɭ] |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ɳ] | Ňň/ŋ/ | Öö/ɞ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɹ/, [ɻ] | Śś/ɕ/ | Šš/ʃ/ |
Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/β/ | Yy/y/ | Žž/ʒ/ | Zz/z/ | Źź/ʑ/ | ·/ə/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |