Arianish [ZKQ]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Arianish
-Inspired by Abkhaz, Hopi, Apache, and Arapaho
-Uses a lot of non-concatenating morphology, suppletion, and metathesis
-Spoken by a tribe of warrior people called the Zekeqı
-Uses consonant mutations to a moderate extent
-Vowel harmony
-Uses a purely pictographic writing system
- Dual modal: the male register uses signs in tandem with speaking
My goal with Arianish was to create a language that contained a lot of variance. Just how different can different registers or modes [speaking/writing] be while still maintaining intelligibility?
Arianish has 2 "dialects" or registers - men's speech and women's speech. There are very deep differences between them. When the 2 sexes are together, the common register is used; however, when they are separated, then the appropriate register is used.
About Arianish
-Inspired by Abkhaz, Hopi, Apache, and Arapaho
-Uses a lot of non-concatenating morphology, suppletion, and metathesis
-Spoken by a tribe of warrior people called the Zekeqı
-Uses consonant mutations to a moderate extent
-Vowel harmony
-Uses a purely pictographic writing system
- Dual modal: the male register uses signs in tandem with speaking
My goal with Arianish was to create a language that contained a lot of variance. Just how different can different registers or modes [speaking/writing] be while still maintaining intelligibility?
Arianish has 2 "dialects" or registers - men's speech and women's speech. There are very deep differences between them. When the 2 sexes are together, the common register is used; however, when they are separated, then the appropriate register is used.
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | n | ɲ | ŋ ŋʷ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | ↓t1 | k ʰk kʷ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | v | x | h̪͆2 ↓h3 | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z̠ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ɭ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||||||||||
- breathe in while sucking the tongue to the dental ridge
- voiceless bidental fricative
- breathe in as if to gasp
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | ɯ ɯ́ ɯ̥ | u ú u̥ | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ ɪ̂ ɪ̥ | ʏ ʏ́ ʏ̥ | ||||
| Close-mid | ɤ ɤ́ ɤ̥ | o ó o̥ | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̂ ɛ̥ | œ œ̂ œ̥ | ||||
| Open | a â ḁ | |||||
Stress informationThe letter ɤ indicates a stressed /o/. This sound is "neutral" [unaffected by vowel harmony] when in a stressed syllable.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Arianish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ArianishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ȧ̇ ȧ̇/â/ | Ạ ạ/ḁ/ | Bb/ɓ/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/ɗ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ė̇ ė̇/ɛ̂/ | Ẹ ẹ/ɛ̥/ | Hh/↓h/1 |
| Iı/ɪ/ | İ̇ i̇̇/ɪ̂/ | Ị ı̣/ɪ̥/ | Kk/k/ | K̇ k̇/kʷ/ | Ḳ̇ ḳ̇/ʰk/ | Ll/ɭ/ | Nn/n/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Ṇ̇ ṇ̇/ŋʷ/ |
| Ṇ ṇ/ŋ/ | Oo/ɤ/ | Ȯ̇ ȯ̇/ɤ́/ | Ọ ọ/ɤ̥/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/h̪͆/2 | Rr/ɾ/ | Tt/↓t/3 | Uu/ɯ/ | U̇̇ u̇̇/ɯ́/ |
| Ụ ụ/ɯ̥/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/d͡z̠/ | ɤ/o/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- breathe in as if to gasp
- voiceless bidental fricative
- breathe in while sucking the tongue to the dental ridge
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