Zondulen [ZDN]
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Ahtilak on 11 December 2015
+ shared with: rivalmoonlight
+ shared with: rivalmoonlight
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Zondulen
Zondulen, a daughter language of the Jizhar, spoken across most of Sintren, and in some parts of Mez and southern Konalapi.
Thousands of years in the making, the Zondulen language is as diverse as the people who speak it, ripe with idiosyncrasies and flavor across the Sintren cluster. Most dialects and accents have diverged far from the original Jizhar,. For many who speak Zondulen, especially in the eastern and southern parts of Sintren, the Jizhar is scarcely recognizable as an ancient form of their native tongue.
But there is one place the language has stayed frozen in time, preserved by the hostile environment of a two-thousand-year war.
With little influence from the rest of Auntcarroo, Suhar's dialect of Zondulen is believed to be the purest form of the Element's Language, still alive and well, with the Jizhar seeming little more than an exotic accent. Learning it is said to open a world of spirituality and understanding.
Thousands of years in the making, the Zondulen language is as diverse as the people who speak it, ripe with idiosyncrasies and flavor across the Sintren cluster. Most dialects and accents have diverged far from the original Jizhar,. For many who speak Zondulen, especially in the eastern and southern parts of Sintren, the Jizhar is scarcely recognizable as an ancient form of their native tongue.
But there is one place the language has stayed frozen in time, preserved by the hostile environment of a two-thousand-year war.
With little influence from the rest of Auntcarroo, Suhar's dialect of Zondulen is believed to be the purest form of the Element's Language, still alive and well, with the Jizhar seeming little more than an exotic accent. Learning it is said to open a world of spirituality and understanding.
Sample of ZondulenCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
[view] About ElementalA language family derived from the Language of the Elements. These languages include the Jizhar, Zondulen, Tambien, and several others.
[view] zawrawraw (Suhar)No summary available for this dialect.
[view] tawhawhi (Tahahee)Tahahee Zondulen is spoken in Tahahee, Sintren. In Tahahee Zondulen, the word order has switched from OSV to SOV, they've lost passive vs active voice, and there has been a range of sound changes.
Most notably, final vowels and aspirated sounds have been lost.
Most notably, final vowels and aspirated sounds have been lost.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | pʼ | b | tʼ | k kʼ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | [f]1 | v | [s]2 | z | ʃ | ʒ | ʝ | |||||||
| Affricate | d͡ʑ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Blends | ʃl |
- allophone of /v/
- allophone of /z/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | |||||
| Close-mid | e | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | [ʌ]2 | ||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ɑɹ | ɜɹ |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Zondulen. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ZondulenOrthography | |||||||||||
| b/b/ | m/m/ | k/k/ | v/v/ | z/z/ | sh/ʃ/ | rr/r/ | zh/ʒ/ | y/ʝ/ | shl/ʃl/ | l/l/ | r/ɾ/ |
| j/d͡ʑ/ | p'/pʼ/ | t'/tʼ/ | k'/kʼ/ | i/i/ | ei/e/ | aw/ɑ/ | a/æ/ | e/ɛ/ | u/u/ | ar/ɑɹ/ | er/ɜɹ/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||||
