Zlivnyk [ZLY]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Zlivnyk
Zlivnyk is an artificial language built not for any practical purpose, but merely as an artistic exercise in linguistics.
Its goal is to be a theoretically and practically fully usable language built from unique or rare features seldomly or never seen in natural language. Furthermore, it is designed as a thought experiment: as Marxist philosophy asserts that language, as all social and conceptual phenomena, are results of material circumstances, Zlivnyk seeks to explore what a language developed within a socialist society might look like.
To that extent, it is notable that Zlivnyk has:
The language is still in its early drafting stages and will develop over time.
Its goal is to be a theoretically and practically fully usable language built from unique or rare features seldomly or never seen in natural language. Furthermore, it is designed as a thought experiment: as Marxist philosophy asserts that language, as all social and conceptual phenomena, are results of material circumstances, Zlivnyk seeks to explore what a language developed within a socialist society might look like.
To that extent, it is notable that Zlivnyk has:
- Obligatory classifiers for countable and quantifiable nouns
- A unique but consistent phonology
- Extensive pronoun system distinguishing clusivity, formality, solidarity, a 0th person and much more
- A tripartite morphosyntactic alignment
- Dependent clauses featuring mandatory opening and closing particles
- Numerous derivational morphemes
- An original nonlinear writing system
- A generalized OSV word order with legal arbitrary variation for emphasis
The language is still in its early drafting stages and will develop over time.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | |||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ | |||||||||||||
| Trill | ʙ | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | y | ɯ | u | ||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʏ]2 | [ʊ]3 | |||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɔ | |||||||||
| Near-open | [ɐ]4 | |||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /y/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Zlivnyk. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ZlivnykOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Ee/ə/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Iı/ɯ/ | Ii/i/ | Ĵĵ/ʃ/ | Jj/ʒ/ |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/ɮ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɻ/ | RR rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ |
| Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/y/ | Zz/z/ | Łł/ɬ/ | Бб/ʙ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
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