Ukantel [UKL]
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Ukantel
Ükäntel [ygæn̪d̪el̪]
Ükäntel [ygæn̪d̪el̪]
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[Deactivated User] on 7 June 2017
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ukantel
My main conlang which is largely inspired by Turkish. It has been at a weird state of completion for months as I revise small things.
Primarily left-branching suffixing agglutinating language, featuring no labial sounds and a simple front-back vowel harmony.
Primarily left-branching suffixing agglutinating language, featuring no labial sounds and a simple front-back vowel harmony.
Phonology
Consonants | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | n | ŋ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | t̪ | k | ||||||||||||
Fricative | θ | s | ʃ | [ç]1 | [x]2 | h | [ɦ]3 | |||||||
Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l̪4 | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
Trill | [r]5 | |||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /h/
- dental
- when geminate, allophone of /ɾ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
Close | i i: | y y: | u u: | |||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʏ]2 | [ʊ]3 | |||||
Close-mid | e e: | ø ø: | ɤ ɤ: | o o: | ||||
Near-open | æ æ: | |||||||
Open | ɑ ɑ: |
- before sonorant consonants, allophone of /i/
- before sonorant consonants, allophone of /y/
- before sonorant consonants, allophone of /u/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ukantel. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
UkantelOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Ää ä /æ/ | Aa a /ɑ/ | Cc ce /t͡s/ | Dd de /θ/ | Ee e /e/ | Ëë ë /ɤ/ | Gg ge /ŋ/ | Hh ha /h/ | Ii i /i/ | Kk ke /k/ | Ll le /l̪/1 |
Nn ne /n/ | Öö ö /ø/ | Oo o /o/ | Rr re /ɾ/ | Ss se /s/ | Şş şe /ʃ/ | Tt te /t̪/ | Üü ü /y/ | Uu u /u/ | Ww we /w/ | Yy ye /j/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- dental