Standard Zucchini Bear [ZUB]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Standard Zucchini Bear
Standard Zucchini Bear (SZB) is the human name given to the primary dialect of the language spoken by the Zucchini Bear People: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/single/?p=1044848&t=5325797 of Aenvarna although other dialects exist too, many of which deviate quite considerably from this one. Zucchini Bears have more acute hearing than humans so sounds that sound identical to us, such as the laterally released trills, are easily distinguishable to them. SZB is also spoken very quickly, with hardly any pauses in between words. To humans, SZB often sounds more like bird song than language and it's very hard for humans to speak SZB at the same speed as a zucchini bear.
Grammar Notes:
1. SZB is primarily suffixing with tense, aspect, mood, class and state (Dan/Not-Dan) being suffixed onto a noun's respective adjectives/verbs.
E.g: ź'k'neźuh=people-clever-PL.SENT-INNOCUOUS
2. Adjectives/adverbs suffix the nouns/verbs that they modify and are stacked onto the noun/verb when there's many of them (no use of "and".)
E.g: Tall, green plant=q̓'Ȟi'q̓'Ḳe'i'e=plant-tall-(')-green-SING.PLANT
Leaf= q̓'Ḳezi=green-flat=Flat and Green (green is treated as a noun here but as it's an adjective, it doesn't use a marker)
3. There are 17 cases: Nominative (no marker), Oblique, Genitive, Vocative, Instrumental, Comitative, Lative, Allative, Ablative, Superlative, Sublative, Illative, Elative, Perlative, Superessive, Subessive and Comparative.
4. The genitive case is expressed by marking the object of the (pro)noun with the respective (pro)noun's suffix marker.
E.g: My plant=q̓'Q'=Plant-1.SING
The animal's leaf=q̓'Ḳezi'e=Leaf-SING.ANML
5. There are 7 classes: Sentient, Animal, Plant, Tree, Implement, Liquid and Other and 5 states: Neutral, Safe (won't harm), Innocuous (potentially harmful, usually safe), Hazardous (potentially safe, usually harmful) and Dangerous (harmful). All nouns have a state but pronouns are usually neutral.
Grammar Notes:
1. SZB is primarily suffixing with tense, aspect, mood, class and state (Dan/Not-Dan) being suffixed onto a noun's respective adjectives/verbs.
E.g: ź'k'neźuh=people-clever-PL.SENT-INNOCUOUS
2. Adjectives/adverbs suffix the nouns/verbs that they modify and are stacked onto the noun/verb when there's many of them (no use of "and".)
E.g: Tall, green plant=q̓'Ȟi'q̓'Ḳe'i'e=plant-tall-(')-green-SING.PLANT
Leaf= q̓'Ḳezi=green-flat=Flat and Green (green is treated as a noun here but as it's an adjective, it doesn't use a marker)
3. There are 17 cases: Nominative (no marker), Oblique, Genitive, Vocative, Instrumental, Comitative, Lative, Allative, Ablative, Superlative, Sublative, Illative, Elative, Perlative, Superessive, Subessive and Comparative.
4. The genitive case is expressed by marking the object of the (pro)noun with the respective (pro)noun's suffix marker.
E.g: My plant=q̓'Q'=Plant-1.SING
The animal's leaf=q̓'Ḳezi'e=Leaf-SING.ANML
5. There are 7 classes: Sentient, Animal, Plant, Tree, Implement, Liquid and Other and 5 states: Neutral, Safe (won't harm), Innocuous (potentially harmful, usually safe), Hazardous (potentially safe, usually harmful) and Dangerous (harmful). All nouns have a state but pronouns are usually neutral.
Sample of Standard Zucchini BearCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||||||
| Nasal | m̥͋ | n̪̥ | n̼̥͋ | ɳ̥͋ | ŋ̥͋ | ɴ̥͋ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ pʰ | b | k kʼ kʰ | q̆ | [ʔ]1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ̞ | β | θ̪͆ θ̪ θ̼ | s̪͆ ↓s s2 | z̪͆ z3 | ɕ ɕʼ | χ̞ | ħ̞ | ||||||||||||||||
| Affricate | p͡ɸ | b͡β | t͡s̪͆ t͡sʼ t͡s4 | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | ʈ͡ʂ ʈ͡ʂʼ | t͡ɕ t͡ɕʼ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l̪͆ l̼̥ | ɭ̥̆ | ʎ | ʟ̥̆ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ̪͆ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral flap | ɺ̥ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʍ ʍ5 | w | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | ʙ ʙ̥ | r̪̥͆ r̪ˡ r̥ʼ r̼ rˡ r̼ˡ rˡˠ | ʀ ʀˡ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ̼̥ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click | ʘ ʘʼ ʘ̬ ʘʰ | ǀ ǀ̬ ǀʰ | ǃ ǃʼ ǃ̬ ǃʰ | ǁ ǁ̬ ǁʰ | ǂ ǂʼ ǂ̬ ǂʰ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Implosive | ɗ̼̥ | ᶑ̥ | ʄ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ɽ͡r ɽ͡rˡ6 | t̪͡ʙ̥7 |
- Only occurs before or in between vowels, allophone of /ə/
- Whistled (IPA = [ȿ])
- Whistled (IPA = [ɀ])
- Whistled (IPA = [tȿ])
- Whistled (IPA = [ϻ])
- Laterally released retroflex trill
- Voiceless alveolar bilabially trilled affricate
| Vowels | Front | Central | ||
| Close | í í̌1 i᷉́2 i᷉̋3 ī ī̌4 i̋ | |||
| Close-mid | é é̌ e᷉́ e᷉̋ ē ē̌ e̋ | |||
| Mid | ə | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ̄ | |||
| Near-open | ǣ | ɐ̄ | ||
- Column 2 = High-Very high rising
- Column 3 = High-Mid-High dipping
- Column 4 =Very high-High-Very high dipping
- Column 6 = Mid-High rising
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Standard Zucchini Bear. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Standard Zucchini BearOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| '/ə/, [ʔ]1 | Aa/ǣ/ | Bb/ʙ/ | Bb/b/ | B́ b́/ʙ̥/ | B́ b́/t̪͡ʙ̥/2 | Cc/ǀ/ | Ćć/t͡ʃ/ | C̀ c̀/ǀ̬/ | C̄ c̄/ǀʰ/ | Ć̣ ć̣/t͡ʃʼ/ |
| Ee/ē/ | Ee/ɛ̄/ | Ff/ɸ̞/ | Gg/ǂ/ | Ḡḡ/ǂʰ/ | G̀ g̀/ǂ̬/ | G̣ g̣/ǂʼ/ | Ȟȟ/ʍ/3 | Hh/ʍ/ | Ii/ī/ | Kk/ʈ͡ʂ/ |
| Ḳḳ/ʈ͡ʂʼ/ | Ḳḳ/kʼ/ | Kk/k/ | K̄ k̄/kʰ/ | Ll/l̪͆/ | Mm/m̥͋/ | Nn/n̪̥/ | Pp/p/ | P̄ p̄/pʰ/ | P̣ p̣/pʼ/ | Qq/ʘ/ |
| Qq/ǃ/ | Q̄ q̄/ǃʰ/ | Q̄ q̄/ʘʰ/ | Q̓ q̓/ʘ̬/ | Q̓ q̓/ǃ̬/ | Q̣ q̣/ʘʼ/ | Q̣ q̣/ǃʼ/ | Rr/ʀ/ | Rr/r̪̥͆/ | Ṛṛ/r̥ʼ/ | Řř/ɽ͡r/ |
| Ŕ̥ ŕ̥/r̪ˡ/ | Ř̥ ř̥/ɽ͡rˡ/4 | R̥ r̥/ʀˡ/ | R̥̀ r̥̀/r̼ˡ/ | R̥̂ r̥̂/rˡˠ/ | R̥̃ r̥̃/rˡ/ | Śś/ɕ/ | Šš/s/5 | Ss/s̪͆/ | S̀ s̀/↓s/ | Ṣ́ ṣ́/ɕʼ/ |
| Tt/θ̪/ | T́ t́/θ̪͆/ | Uu/ɐ̄/ | Vv/β/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ǁ/ | X̀ x̀/ǁ̬/ | X́ x́/t͡ɕ/ | X̄ x̄/ǁʰ/ | X̣̓ x̣̓/t͡ɕʼ/ | Yy/ʎ/ |
| Žž/z/6 | Zz/z̪͆/ | Źź/t͡s̪͆/ | Ž́ ž́/t͡s/7 | Ẓ́ ẓ́/t͡sʼ/ | Ŧŧ/θ̼/ | Ƚƚ/l̼̥/ | Ɍɍ/r̼/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- Only occurs before or in between vowels
- Voiceless alveolar bilabially trilled affricate
- Whistled (IPA = [ϻ])
- Laterally released retroflex trill
- Whistled (IPA = [ȿ])
- Whistled (IPA = [ɀ])
- Whistled (IPA = [tȿ])
