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
VosanOfficial ManeaMinority KhezanMinority AwatingMinoritySpecies
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.
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.
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-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 | |||||||
| 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.
| 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/ | 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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