Wessian [WES]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Wessian
This language is spoken by a coastal community of humans on the eastern edge of one of the continents. Recent (in the past three hundred years) settlers to the region, their culture is in flux as they adapt to the coastal environment and developing practices based on a newfound dependency on fishing and the sea. They are notable for having recently encountered/discovered the Mare (cousins of the Maari), though it is a neighboring, more influential group, the Vurthians, that has carried out most of the intensive study on their newly discovered neighbors.
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Language family relationships
[view] About WarelianWarelian can refer to both the ancestral language from which originate languages such as Wessian and Vurthian and the language family as a whole. The origins and ancestry of the proto-language itself are up for debate, but records of it do exist as t...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | ||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p̪ | b̪ | t̪ | d̪ | [t]1 | [d]2 | [ʈ]3 | [ɖ]4 | k | g | ʔ | |||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | x | ɣ | ||||||||||
Affricate | p̪͡f | b̪͡v | t͡s | d͡z | ʈ͡ʂ | ɖ͡ʐ | k͡x | g͡ɣ | ||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Blends | hr |
- allophone of /t̪/
- allophone of /d̪/
- allophone of /t̪/
- allophone of /d̪/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
Mid | [ə]3 | |||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
Open | ɑ |
Polyphthongs | ɛi | ɑʊ | ɔʊ | ɛo | ɑi | ɑɛ |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /ɔ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Wessian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
WessianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
' a'a /ʔ/ | Aa a /ɑ/ | Bb ba /b̪/ | Dd da /d̪/ | Ee e /ɛ/ | Ff fa /f/ | Gg ga /g/ | Ii i /i/ | Jj ja /j/ |
Kk ka /k/ | Ll la /l/ | Mm ma /m/ | Nn na /n̪/ | Oo o /ɔ/ | Pp pa /p̪/ | Qq qa /ɣ/ | Rr ra /r/ | Ss sa /s/ |
Šš ša /ʂ/ | Tt ta /t̪/ | Uu u /u/ | Vv va /v/ | Ww wa /w/ | Xx xa /x/ | Zz za /z/ | Žž ža /ʐ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |