Not-Canonical Voont [VOO]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Not-Canonical Voont
BIG DISCLAIMER THIS IS NOT ON SAHAR ANYMORE
THERE IS A NEW VOONTIC BRANCH IN DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS VERY DIFFERENT
The Voont language is spoken in extreme southeast
Old Amaia, an area known as Voont Chint, and adjacent areas of 
Yerlan. It is a Voontic language descended ultimately from 
Proto-Pemme and distantly related to 
Not-Canonical Amaian, 
Thuun, and 
Ezian. Its nearest relatives are the other Voontic languages, which are spoken by relatively small populations, largely in the mountain regions of eastern Amaia and northwestern Yerlan.
Voont is a fusional language that, like the Amaian languages, carries complex syntactic and morphological marking of information structure: topic, focus, etc. Unlike Amaian lects, however, Voont is a mostly monosyllabic language, with roots generally taking up only one syllable. However, through derivation and inflection, words can become much longer. Voont is noteworthy in having an exceptionally large number of syllabic nuclei for the region: vowels can vary in nasality, length, and phonation. Lexically, it borrows much less than Amaian, perhaps explainable by its isolated location in a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides.
Voont lacks phonemic nasals: the voiced stops alternate with nasal stops, conditioned by the presence of lack of nasalization on the syllable nucleus. While there are five or less vowel qualities that contrast in each nasality/phonation/length combination, there are eight total vowel qualities.
THERE IS A NEW VOONTIC BRANCH IN DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS VERY DIFFERENT
The Voont language is spoken in extreme southeast
Old Amaia, an area known as Voont Chint, and adjacent areas of Yerlan. It is a Voontic language descended ultimately from Proto-Pemme and distantly related to Not-Canonical Amaian, Thuun, and Ezian. Its nearest relatives are the other Voontic languages, which are spoken by relatively small populations, largely in the mountain regions of eastern Amaia and northwestern Yerlan.Voont is a fusional language that, like the Amaian languages, carries complex syntactic and morphological marking of information structure: topic, focus, etc. Unlike Amaian lects, however, Voont is a mostly monosyllabic language, with roots generally taking up only one syllable. However, through derivation and inflection, words can become much longer. Voont is noteworthy in having an exceptionally large number of syllabic nuclei for the region: vowels can vary in nasality, length, and phonation. Lexically, it borrows much less than Amaian, perhaps explainable by its isolated location in a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides.
Voont lacks phonemic nasals: the voiced stops alternate with nasal stops, conditioned by the presence of lack of nasalization on the syllable nucleus. While there are five or less vowel qualities that contrast in each nasality/phonation/length combination, there are eight total vowel qualities.
Sample of Not-Canonical VoontCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeAmaian-Voontic
⤷ Proto-Amaian-Voontic
⤷ Proto-Voontic
⤷ Pre-Voontic
⤷ Proto-Voont
⤷ Old Voont
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Not-Canonical Voont
⤷ Proto-Amaian-Voontic
⤷ Proto-Voontic
⤷ Pre-Voontic
⤷ Proto-Voont
⤷ Old Voont
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Not-Canonical Voont[view] About Amaian-VoonticNOT CANON ON SAHAR ANYMORE!
possibly paraphyletic group consisting of Amaian dialects, includingAMA and the 3 to 8 Voontic languages, all spoken in AMA and parts of YER and Naria. Descends from Proto-Easter...
possibly paraphyletic group consisting of Amaian dialects, including
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | [m]1 | [n̪]2 | [ɲ]3 | [ŋ]4 | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p p: | b | t̪ t̪: | d̪ | k k: | g | [ʔ]5 ʔ̃ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | ɕ | x | h | |||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l̪ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | [w]6 | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | gb | [ŋm]7 |
- before nasal vowel, allophone of /b/
- before nasal vowel, allophone of /d̪/
- before nasal vowel, allophone of /d͡ʑ/
- before nasal vowel, allophone of /g/
- before oral vowel, allophone of /ʔ̃/
- word-finally, allophone of /ʋ/
- before nasal vowel, allophone of /gb/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | ɨʱ: ɨʱ̃: ɨ̃: | u u: ũ | |||
| Close-mid | e ẽ | oʱ: oʱ̃: o: õ: | ||||
| Mid | əʱ ə̰ ə̰: ə̰̃: | |||||
| Open-mid | ɔ ɔʱ ɔ̰ ɔ̰: ɔ̰̃: ɔ̃ | |||||
| Open | a aʱ aʱ: aʱ̃: a̰ a̰: ã̰: a: ã: ã | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Not-Canonical Voont. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Not-Canonical VoontOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AA aa/a:/ | AAH aah/aʱ:/ | AAN aan/ã:/ | AANH aanh/aʱ̃:/ | AAR aar/a̰:/ | AARN aarn/ã̰:/ | AH ah/aʱ/ | AN an/ã/ | AR ar/a̰/ | Bb/b/, [m]1 |
| BB bb/p:/ | CH ch/t͡ɕ/ | Dd/d̪/, [n̪]2 | DD dd/t̪:/ | Ee/e/ | EE ee/i:/ | EN en/ẽ/ | Gg/g/, [ŋ]3 | GB gb/gb/, [ŋm]4 | GG gg/k:/ | HH hh/x/ |
| Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʑ/, [ɲ]5 | Kk/k/ | Ll/l̪/ | Oo/ɔ/ | OH oh/ɔʱ/ | ON on/ɔ̃/ | OO oo/o:/ | OOH ooh/oʱ:/ | OON oon/õ:/ | OONH oonh/oʱ̃:/ |
| OOR oor/ɔ̰:/ | OORN oorn/ɔ̰̃:/ | OR or/ɔ̰/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ʔ/ | Tt/t̪/ | Uu/u/ | UEH ueh/əʱ/ | UER uer/ə̰/ | UN un/ũ/ | UU uu/u:/ |
| UUER uuer/ə̰:/ | UUERN uuern/ə̰̃:/ | UUIH uuih/ɨʱ:/ | UUIN uuin/ɨ̃:/ | UUINH uuinh/ɨʱ̃:/ | Vv/ʋ/, [w]6 | Xx/ʔ̃/, [ʔ]7 | XX xx/h/ | Yy/j/ | YY yy/ɕ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- before nasal vowel
- before nasal vowel
- before nasal vowel
- before nasal vowel
- before nasal vowel
- word-finally
- before oral vowel
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