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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken by a population of around 100,000,000 in:
VosanOfficial
ManeaMinority
FukotaMinority
AwatingMinority
KhezanMinority
LugidaMinority
VosanOfficial ManeaMinority FukotaMinority AwatingMinority KhezanMinority LugidaMinoritySpecies
Human/humanoid
About Vosan
Vosan is an a priori language part of the Vaniuan language family, specifically part of the Jiuzemic branch, and it is spoken as one of three official languages of the country of Vosan alongside 
Hitagi and 
Zimal. Between the three, this language is the most widely spoken of them and serves as a lingua franca in the federation and beyond, within its sphere of influence in western Vaniu.
This is my most-developed language by far, having continuously worked on it since 2020, with a detailed grammar document (which you can read here) and a dictionary of over six thousand listed words.
Hitagi and Zimal. Between the three, this language is the most widely spoken of them and serves as a lingua franca in the federation and beyond, within its sphere of influence in western Vaniu.This is my most-developed language by far, having continuously worked on it since 2020, with a detailed grammar document (which you can read here) and a dictionary of over six thousand listed words.
Sample of Vosan[view] Koye avistûm. Gajostis u bes amestês as, Sepispeto, vicem ôs reḍe ånepis zur fedanêm, vis u res â â, ṣasêdele as. Tûs ca tvem â abeyna bedem, ṣivê as ca a tvem rû ger colaḍec ere ôyus arem, vilara ṣivê reḍe as. Ṣivê vi va a tvem, mesa ṣijuvåm cu tåtizo vi ênzo, ṣaskålazo vi ôze. A ṣijuvåm ca ampinâza, ca ṣilâdeza. Mezolis ca ere tûs ṣininâ. Â subve...[view all texts]
Sound samples in Vosan
Some sound samples of Vosan. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Amå uvuri bule bvitenenna zur dôm cu bafatem
One person was able to survive the execution of electrocution.
One person was able to survive the execution of electrocution.
Language family relationships
Language treeVaniuan
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Proto-Vaniu
⤷ Proto-Western Vaniuan
⤷ Jiuzemic
⤷ Old Vosan
⤷ Middle Vosan
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Vosan
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Proto-Vaniu⤷ Proto-Western Vaniuan
⤷ Jiuzemic
⤷ Old Vosan
⤷ Middle Vosan
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Vosan[view] About VaniuanThe Vaniuan language is a family of languages originating from a disputed urheimat of either Western Parshita or around Lake Melkanchuta. Its descendant languages consist of around an estimated 400-700 Million speakers with varying phonologies, vocab...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ç | x | [h]2 | |||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [j]3 | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r̥ | r | ||||||||||||||
| Blends | je | jo | ji | ja | ju |
- before velars, allophone of /n/
- word-finally, allophone of /k/
- coda positions, allophone of [g] and [ç]
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | ɒ | ||
Syllable StructureMaximum possible syllable structure in Vosan words is CCjVCC
Stress informationStress in Vosan is based on a hierarchy, with longer syllables getting stress over shorter ones in a word, and syllables with j-vowels getting stress over ones that don't.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Vosan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| VosanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Ll Ll la /l/ | Bb Bb ba /b/ | Pp Pp pa /p/ | Vv Vv va /v/ | Ff Ff fa /f/ | Ss Ss sa /s/ | Zz Zz za /z/ | Dd Dd da /d/ | Tt Tt ta /t/ |
| Rr Rr ra /r/, [r̥]1 | Kk Kk ka /k/, [x]2, [h]3 | Gg Gg ga /g/ | Mm Mm ma /m/ | Jj Jj ja /ʒ/ | Cc Cc ca /ʃ/ | Ðð Ḍḍ da lêni /ð/ | Þþ Ṣṣ ṣa /θ/ | Qq Qq qa /x/ |
| Nn Nn na /n/, [ŋ]4 | Yy Yy ya /ç/, [j]5 | Hh Hh haqa // | Aa Aa a /a/ | Åå Åå a ṣina /ɒ/ | Ii Ii i /i/ | Ee Ee e /e/ | Oo Oo o /o/ | Uu Uu u /u/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
- before voiceless consonants
- before obstruents
- word-finally
- before velars
- coda positions, allophone of [g] and [ç]
Additional NotesH is silent and only comes from loan words
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