Aitaian [YNKO]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Aitaian
Aitaian, known natively as Yaɲakīrō, is a language spoken by roughly 95 million people on the continent of East Althyria in my conworld. The native name for the language is derived from the words yaɲīke (/jaɲaɪkɛ/, meaning people) and akīrona (/akaɪɹoʊna/, meaning language). The English form is derived from the name of the region, Yåɲītāya (/jɑɲaɪteɪja/, meaning "people's land").
The language uses a conscript (which is still being worked on); a Latinized script was introduced in the 1950s as a form of cultural exchange between humans and Aitaians. Humans had came to the planet (in which the conworld is on) about a hundred and twenty years prior.
Grammatical features [still WIP]:
- OSV word order
- five cases - nominative, accusative, ablative, allative and locative
- regular verb conjugation
The language uses a conscript (which is still being worked on); a Latinized script was introduced in the 1950s as a form of cultural exchange between humans and Aitaians. Humans had came to the planet (in which the conworld is on) about a hundred and twenty years prior.
Grammatical features [still WIP]:
- OSV word order
- five cases - nominative, accusative, ablative, allative and locative
- regular verb conjugation
Sample of Aitaian[view] Tib vīrathonåkīra lī pashia; abīn ēntaīha lī wikal
I have no mouth and I must scream.[view all texts]
I have no mouth and I must scream.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | k | ʔ | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | θ | s | ʃ | ʒ | x | ħ ħʲ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | |||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]1 | ʌ | ||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ | oʊ |
- allophone of /e/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Aitaian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AitaianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Āā/ə/ | Åå/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Ee/e/, [ɛ] | Ēē/i/ | Vv/f/ | Hh/ħ/ | Ħħ/ħʲ/ | Ɥɥ/ʔ/ | Ii/ɪ/ |
| Īī/aɪ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ɲɲ/ɲ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | Oo/oʊ/ | Ōō/u/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɹ/ |
| Ss/s/ | Cc/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ | Zz/ʒ/ | Uu/ʌ/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Xx/x/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
