Lucian [XZY]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Lucian
A language spoken in a group of island known as the Lucian Islands.
Cases: 8 - Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Locative, Instrumental, Partitive, Ablative.
Nominal Genders: 3 - Masculine, Feminine, Neuter.
Grammatical Numbers: 2 - Singular and Plural.
Verbal Moods: 5 - Indicative, Imperative, Conditional, Infinitive.
Verbal Aspects: 2 - Imperfect and Perfect.
Marked Tenses: 3 - Imperfect Past, Present, Future (Perfect if a compound structure).
Primary Word Order: SOV
Orthography: Phonetic.
Syllable Structure: V, CV, VC, CVC. Any consonant can be in the onset. Clusters are rare and only three clusters are allowed [pɬ], [t̪ɬ] and [kɬ]. Codas are limited to [p], [t̪], [k], [m], [n̪], [w] and [j].
Cases: 8 - Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Locative, Instrumental, Partitive, Ablative.
Nominal Genders: 3 - Masculine, Feminine, Neuter.
Grammatical Numbers: 2 - Singular and Plural.
Verbal Moods: 5 - Indicative, Imperative, Conditional, Infinitive.
Verbal Aspects: 2 - Imperfect and Perfect.
Marked Tenses: 3 - Imperfect Past, Present, Future (Perfect if a compound structure).
Primary Word Order: SOV
Orthography: Phonetic.
Syllable Structure: V, CV, VC, CVC. Any consonant can be in the onset. Clusters are rare and only three clusters are allowed [pɬ], [t̪ɬ] and [kɬ]. Codas are limited to [p], [t̪], [k], [m], [n̪], [w] and [j].
Sample of Lucian[view] Bejþa þuči þaðerašašun banlatъ.
Her wife is reading a newspaper.[view all texts]
Her wife is reading a newspaper.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeProto-Laichosian
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Proto-Laichosian
⤷ Old East Laichosian
⤷ Old Lucian
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Lucian
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Proto-Laichosian⤷ Old East Laichosian
⤷ Old Lucian
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Lucian[view] About Proto-LaichosianA language family that, whose daughters are spoken throughout the world.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | (f) | θ | ð | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | x | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | ʈ͡ʂ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | lˠ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | [ɬ]1 | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /lˠ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | [y]1 | [ɨ]2 | u | ||
| Close-mid | o | |||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | [œ]3 | ||||
| Near-open | [æ]4 | |||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Lucian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| LucianOrthography | |||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Čč/ʈ͡ʂ/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/1 | Gg/g/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ |
| Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/lˠ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Šš/ʂ/ |
| Tt/t̪/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Zz/z/ | Žž/ʐ/ | Ðð/ð/ | Þþ/θ/ | Ъъ/ə/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
- loan words only
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