Vedalken [VDLK]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Vedalken
Endonym meaning River People. The Vedalken live in the Kingdom of Trida, on the eastern coast of the Central Sea. The language is strongly dependent-marking, with four cases in modern speech and a fifth appearing in archaisms and old speech.
Sample of Vedalken[view] ássar vítan púlynyi puálo omíhaly búturnyi kástukaly mityéekaly diáropkaly: bétiknyi sérkany sanbósaris, kuánatynyi kisút agapéstos, liáganynyi kástukos atyélytekos
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.[view all texts]
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About South SeaThe South Sea languages (VDLK , the Styryn languages, and the Hoskan languages) are spoken on the south and east coasts of the Central Sea. They share some features (particularly, a large number of noun classes and full agreement on adjec...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ | t tʼ | k kʼ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | v | s | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | u͡a | i͡a |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Vedalken. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 VedalkenOrthography | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/pʼ/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/tʼ/ | DY dy/t͡ʃʼ/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/kʼ/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
| IA ia/i͡a/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | LY ly/ʎ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ |
| Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TY ty/t͡ʃ/ | Uu/u/ | UA ua/u͡a/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/t͡sʼ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||
