Modern Zelconian [ZEDKO]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersModern Zelconian is spoken by a population of around 5,000,000,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Modern Zelconian
Having evolved over 1600 years, and being heavily influenced by Mandor, Modern Zelconian looks and sounds different from the original language that Pante Zed-Kone created to unite the tribes of Grantuos, while still retaining some similarities.
Language family relationships
Language treeVizhik
⤷ Proto Vizhik
⤷ Arbantiir
⤷ Grantuos
⤷ Original Zelconian
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Old Zelconian
⤷ Middle Zelconian
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Modern Zelconian
⤷ Proto Vizhik
⤷ Arbantiir
⤷ Grantuos
⤷ Original Zelconian
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Old Zelconian⤷ Middle Zelconian
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Modern Zelconian[view] About VizhikThe largest spoken language family on Idra, thanks to Zelconian. It was spoken by ancient artic warriors, who left runes carved in rocks. Now there are many, many branches spread out across the planet Idra.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | [ɳ] | [ŋ] | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | ɟ | k | g | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | [ð] | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | x | ɣ | |||||||
| Affricate | [t͡s]1 | [d͡z]2 | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ʷɭ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]3 [ɾ̥]4 | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /z/
- allophone of /t̪/
- allophone of /t̪/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i iˡ | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ̈ | |||||
| Close-mid | e eˡ | ʲɘ | ||||
| Mid | e̞ | o̞ [õ̞] | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛˡ | ɜ | ||||
| Open | ɑ ɑˡ [ɑ̃] | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Modern Zelconian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Modern ZelconianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EH eh/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɣ/ | Ii/ʲɘ/ |
| Jj/ɟ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/ʷɭ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʂ/ |
| SL sl/ɬ/ | Tt/t̪/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/i/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʐ/ | ZL zl/ɮ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
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