Skadian [v2] [XSK]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Skadian [v2]
a lang with baltic-finnic aesthetics and improbable etymologies
Sample of Skadian [v2][view] Nu soit vuikyu eivti zyipkuip jun ja suovti!
I just want to go home and sleep![view all texts]
I just want to go home and sleep![view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ɲ]1 | [ŋ]2 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | [c]3 | [ɟ]4 | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | [β]5 | (f)6 | v | [ð]7 | s | [z]8 | [ɕ]9 | [ʑ]10 | x | [ɣ]11 | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | [l]12 | [ʎ]13 | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ʋ]14 | j | w | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- palatalised, allophone of /n/
- before velar consonants, allophone of /n/
- palatalised, allophone of /k/
- palatalised, allophone of /g/
- intervocalically, allophone of /b/
- ⟨f⟩ only used in loan words; before unvoiced consonants, allophone of /v/
- intervocalically, allophone of /d̪/
- adjacent to another voiced consonant, allophone of /s/
- palatalised, allophone of /s/
- adjacent to another voiced consonant and palatalised, allophone of /s/
- intervocalically, allophone of /g/
- word-finally or when adjacent to another consonant, allophone of /ɾ/
- word-finally or when adjacent to another consonant and palatalised, allophone of /ɾ/
- word-finally, allophone of /v/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | [ɨ]1 | ɯ | [u]2 | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ3 | ʌ | [ɔ]4 | |||
| Near-open | [ɐ]5 | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ɔɪ | ɐʊ | ɯɪ | iʊ | aɪ | ɛɪ |
- after labialised consonants, allophone of /i/
- after labialised consonants or adjacent to another back vowel, allophone of /ɯ/
- in stressed syllable only
- in stressed syllable only; after labialised consonants or adjacent to another back vowel, allophone of /ʌ/
- after labialised consonants, allophone of /a/
Syllable Structure(C)V(C)
Stress informationInitial except where denoted with a macron
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Skadian [v2]. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Skadian [v2]Orthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ee/ɛ/1 | Ff[f]2 | Gg/g/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll[l]3 |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ʌ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t̪/ | Uu/ɯ/ | Ŭŭ/w/ | Vv/v/ | Zz[z]4 |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- in stressed syllable only
- ⟨f⟩ only used in loan words; before unvoiced consonants, loan words only
- word-finally or when adjacent to another consonant
- adjacent to another voiced consonant
