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Zveahe (original)
Zveahe
[zvɛɑxɛ]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 4 May 2015
Language type Not specified
Species Human/humanoid
About Zveahe (original)
Update: This version of Zveahe is currently no longer under active development. Work is instead being directed on a remake of the language, which can be found here. It's a lot saner in my opinion, while still keeping some of the important distinctive qualities of the original. If you want to loan a word, look there first, then ask me if you don't see anything that matches.


Zveahe is a fictional natlang originating from a non-human culture. Created for a personal project originally, not for Astalva (originating later).

(sometimes in the past this language has been referred to as Xnalaian or XNA. indeed, the code for this language is XNA.)

Among other things, Zveahe:
  • Uses a base 14 number system
  • Has contrasting linguolabials and bilabials
  • Has a nasally fricated phoneme
  • Has constrasting voiceless velar and palatal fricatives
  • Distinguishes blue, violet/purple, and green, but has no basic word for yellow or orange
  • Has a considerable number of relatively simple words dedicated to atypical concepts relating to telepathy
  • Developed voiced fricative clusters from its affricates, leaving only <t͡ɬ> remaininɡ
Sample of Zveahe (original)[view] Skv'ḓaví ví!

Don't kill me!
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Latest vocabulary
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Sound samples in Zveahe (original)
Some sound samples of Zveahe (original). Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Ís ja qos enḓe yk ís tem vžiasek.
My cat is wearing your trousers.
Mo zage, vží zage, f̃aḓa zage, zvezdna zage.
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
DentalAlveolarPost-
Alveolar
PalatalVelarUvularEpiglottalGlottalOther
Nasal m [m̼]1 [ɱ]2   n3 n͌4     [ŋ]5 [ɴ]6      
Plosive p b     t t̼ d d̼     k g q ʡ    
Fricative   f v θ̪͆ ð̪͆ s s̼ z z̼ ʃ ʒ ç x     [h]7  
Affricate                     t͡ɬ
Lateral approximant       l [l̪̃]8              
Approximant       ɹ   [j]9          
Trill               ʀ      
  1. allophone of /m/
  2. allophone of /v/
  3. Assimilates in POA to adjacent [k, g, q].
  4. Assimilates in POA to adjacent nasal or stop. (after that one assimilates)
  5. allophone of /n/
  6. allophone of /n/
  7. allophone of /x/
  8. allophone of /t/
  9. allophone of /i/
VowelsFrontNear-
front
CentralBack
Close i     u
Near-close   ɪ    
Close-mid ø   ɵ  
Open-mid ɛ     ɔ
Open       ɑ
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Zveahe (original). This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Zveahe (original)Orthography [edit]
Aa/ɑ/Bb/b/B̃ b̃/d̼/Cc/t͡ɬ/Ḓḓ/ð̪͆/Dd/d/Ee/ɛ/Ff/f/F̃ f̃/s̼/Gg/g/
Hh/x/Íí/i/Ii/ɪ/Jj/ç/Kk/k/Ll/l/Mm/m/Nn/n/1Oo/ɔ/Pp/p/
P̃ p̃/t̼/Qq/q/QK qk/ʡ/Rr/ɹ/RJ rj/ʀ/Ss/s/Šš/ʃ/Ṱṱ/θ̪͆/Tt/t/Uu/u/
Ṽṽ/z̼/Vv/v/Ww/ɵ/Xx/n͌/2Yy/i/Zz/z/Žž/ʒ/Øø/ø/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
  1. Assimilates in POA to adjacent [k, g, q].
  2. Assimilates in POA to adjacent nasal or stop. (after that one assimilates)
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