Zjettan [ZJT]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersZjettan is spoken by a population of around 3,780,000 in The Zjett.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Zjettan
It is the official language of the Republic of the Zjett. It is a mix of English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian etc. It initially rose as a pidgin for the protestant settlers in The Zjett, however later it evolved to be a fully fledged language. 90% of the Zjett’s population can speak zjettan fluently, and of those 67% speak in natively.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ⱱ | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | y | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ | |||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ɒ | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Zjettan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ZjettanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/, /ɒ/, /a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/, /e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/ | Oo/ʌ/, /ɔ/, /o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/, /ʊ/ | Üü/y/ | Vv/ⱱ/, /v/ | Ww/w/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||||
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