Aeolian [YOL]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Aeolian
Cyborg Jerks with Wings: The Language
- OSV sentence structure a.k.a. Yoda-speak
- Possessed case; possessor takes the case that the possessee would otherwise be in
- 3 linguistic genders for nouns and pronouns; for personal pronouns, they correspond to social rank
- Head-final everything
- Verbs agree in gender with subject and object
- Passive, causative, inchoative, prohibitive, and cessative voices
- Fusional as f*ck
- 10 noun/pronoun cases
- What the heck is a labial consonant
- No adjectives, we only have gerundive verbs 'round these parts
- OSV sentence structure a.k.a. Yoda-speak
- Possessed case; possessor takes the case that the possessee would otherwise be in
- 3 linguistic genders for nouns and pronouns; for personal pronouns, they correspond to social rank
- Head-final everything
- Verbs agree in gender with subject and object
- Passive, causative, inchoative, prohibitive, and cessative voices
- Fusional as f*ck
- 10 noun/pronoun cases
- What the heck is a labial consonant
- No adjectives, we only have gerundive verbs 'round these parts
Sample of Aeolian[view] Wyrilytacy lydrularlytjoorydarsot qy yquqysesö lelaa, taa her qy yquqysesö rahotjee, tija taa ywese lelaa reijei.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. [view all texts]
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. [view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||
| Plosive | t | [d]1 | c | [ɟ]2 | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | θ | [ð]3 | s | [z]4 | ɕ | [ʑ]5 | x | [ɣ]6 | h | [ɦ]7 | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ɫ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ʍ | [w]8 | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /c/
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ɕ/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /ʍ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: [ĩ:]1 | |||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ ʊ: [ʊ̃:]2 | ||||||||
| Close-mid | ø ø: [ø̃:]3 | |||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: [ɛ̃:]4 | ɔ ɔ: [ɔ̃:]5 | ||||||||
| Open | a a: [ã:]6 | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | øɪ | ɛɪ | aɔ | aɪ | ɛʊ | ɔɪ | ʊɪ |
- allophone of /ĩ:/
- allophone of /ʊ:/
- allophone of /ø:/
- allophone of /ɛ:/
- allophone of /ɔ:/
- allophone of /a:/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Aeolian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AeolianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| a Aa a /a/ | aa AA aa a jusejy /a:/ | ai AI ai ai /aɪ/ | ao AO ao ao /aɔ/ | c Cc ycy /c/ | d Dd ydy /θ/ | e Ee e /ɛ/ | ee EE ee e jusejy /ɛ:/ | ei EI ei ei /ɛɪ/ | eu EU eu eu /ɛʊ/ | h Hh yhy /h/ |
| i Ii i /ɪ/ | ii II ii i jusejy /i:/ | j Jj yjy /j/ | l Ll yly /l/ | ö Öö ö /ø/ | o Oo o /ɔ/ | öi ÖI öi öi /øɪ/ | oi OI oi oi /ɔɪ/ | oo OO oo o jusejy /ɔ:/ | öö ÖÖ öö ö jusejy /ø:/ | q Qq yqy /ɕ/ |
| r Rr yry /r/ | s Ss ysy /s/ | t Tt yty /t/ | u Uu u /ʊ/ | ui UI ui ui /ʊɪ/ | uu UU uu u jusejy /ʊ:/ | w Ww ywy /ʍ/ | x Xx yxy /x/ | y Yy y /ə/ | l Ɫɫ ylwy /ɫ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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