Caistor [XIC]
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[Deactivated User] on 25 November 2014
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Caistor
Isolating language with no conjugations or agreement. Vowel quality depends on the presence or absence of stress in conjunction with the place of the articulation of the preceding consonant, if any. Contains many homographs, but because of vowel quality shifts and phonemic stress, homographs are not homophones. Word order is OSV.
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Language family relationships
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
Plosive | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | θ | ð | s | z | ɕ | ʑ | h | |||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | ɹ |
Blends | [jɐ]2 | [jo]3 |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /ä/
- allophone of /o/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | u | |||||||
Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
Close-mid | o | |||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||
Near-open | [æ̠]1 | |||||||
Open | ä |
Polyphthongs | [eɪ]2 | [aɪ]3 | [eɯ]4 | [aɯ]5 | [aʊ]6 |
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ɪ/
- allophone of /ɪ/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /o/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Caistor. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
CaistorOrthography | |||||||||||
+/g/ | Aa/ä/, [jɐ] | Cc/s/ | Ee/ɛ/, [æ̠] | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/, [eɪ], [aɪ] | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ] | Oo/o/, [aʊ], [jo] | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/ɕ/ |
Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡ʃ/ | TY ty/θ/ | Ww/u/, [eɯ], [aɯ] | Xx/k/ | Yy/ʎ/ | Zz/ʑ/ | Ɔɔ/z/ | Ɉɉ/d/ | ɈY ɉy/ð/ | ɈZ ɉz/d͡ʒ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |