PT language [XAX]
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PT language
p'vk ptux [pɔk˧˧ t̪iu˧˧]
p'vk ptux [pɔk˧˧ t̪iu˧˧]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About PT language
PTs are aliens whose technological level is far behind to that of humans, their technological level is equal to that of the 3rd century of our world.
Linguistic features:
- basic word order: SOV
- adpositions are postpositions
- postverbal conjunctions
- strictly left-branching
- relative clauses precede the noun or internally-headed
- the mandatory use of classifiers with numerals
- morphologically isolating, without inflections
- typology: nominative-accusative, with case distinctions only in personal pronouns.
Linguistic features:
- basic word order: SOV
- adpositions are postpositions
- postverbal conjunctions
- strictly left-branching
- relative clauses precede the noun or internally-headed
- the mandatory use of classifiers with numerals
- morphologically isolating, without inflections
- typology: nominative-accusative, with case distinctions only in personal pronouns.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | b | t̪ t̪ʰ | d̪ | k kʰ | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | ɕ | h | ɦ | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s t͡sʰ | d͡z | ʈ͡ʂ ʈ͡ʂʰ | ɖ͡ʐ | t͡ɕ t͡ɕʰ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | [ɨ]1 | u | |||
Mid | e̞ | ə | o̞ | |||
Open-mid | [ɛ]2 | |||||
Near-open | [æ]3 | |||||
Open | ɑ |
- allophone of /ə/
- allophone of /e̞/
- allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for PT language. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
PT languageOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡ɕ/ | CH ch/t͡ɕʰ/ | Dd/d̪/ | DR dr/ɖ͡ʐ/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | Ee/e̞/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɦ/ |
Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʑ/ | Kk/k/ | KH kh/kʰ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NR nr/ɳ/ |
NY ny/ɲ/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ | PH ph/pʰ/ | Rr[ɨ] | Ss/s/ | SR sr/ʂ/ | Tt/t̪/ | TH th/t̪ʰ/ | TR tr/ʈ͡ʂ/ |
TRH trh/ʈ͡ʂʰ/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | TSH tsh/t͡sʰ/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/ə/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ɕ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZR zr/ʐ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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