Vosan [VOSAN]
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Registered by
astrangemann on 15 July 2020
+ shared with: Leiden, anonymous123, Lme15, Xristianós
+ shared with: Leiden, anonymous123, Lme15, Xristianós
Language type
Mixed
Place & SpeakersSpoken by a population of around 100,000,000 in:
VosanOfficial
ManeaMinority
KhezanMinority
AwatingMinority




Species
Human/humanoid
About Vosan
A member of the Jiuzemic branch of Western Vaniuan, along with
Hitagi, spoken by the residents of Vosan. Also related to
Khezian, and more distantly
Balak.
Oops, I added the words to CWS. Here's the spreadsheet dictionary though, just so you can have more information.



Oops, I added the words to CWS. Here's the spreadsheet dictionary though, just so you can have more information.
Sample of Vosan[view] ¿Gere aguna bezas?. U, ¡zus bes aguêm!.
"ROAD WORK AHEAD"? Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does![view all texts]
"ROAD WORK AHEAD"? Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does![view all texts]
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-Western Vaniuan
⤷ Jiuzemic
⤷ Old Vosan
⤷ Middle Vosan
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[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 | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ç | x | ɣ | |||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Blends | ji | ju | je | jo | ja |
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.
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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/ | Ww Ww lênim va /ʋ/ | Dd Dd da /d/ | Tt Tt ta /t/ | Rr Rr ra /r/ |
Kk Kk ka /k/ | Gg Gg ga /g/ | Mm Mm ma /m/ | Jj Jj ja /ʒ/ | Cc Cc ca /ʃ/ | Ðð Ḍḍ lênim da /ð/ | Þþ Ṣṣ ṣa /θ/ | Qq Qq qa /x/ | Ğğ Ğğ ğa /ɣ/ | Nn Nn na /n/ | Yy Yy ya /ç/ |
Aa Aa a /a/ | Ââ Ââ a cu bî /ja/ | Åå Åå ṣin a /ɒ/ | Ii Ii i /i/ | Îî Îî i cu bî /ji/ | Ee Ee e /e/ | Êê Êê e cu bî /je/ | Oo Oo o /o/ | Ôô Ôô o cu bî /jo/ | Uu Uu u /u/ | Ûû Ûû u cu bî /ju/ |
✔ Shown in correct order [change] |
Additional NotesW is actually written as Vb in the romanization, it's only W here because of the dang space that gets in the way and makes everything ugly if I try to have Vb in there
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