Sevari [ZVA]
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[Deactivated User] on 23 December 2018
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sevari
Sevari (Zvara) is another of my languages. I tend to design complex phonologies and grammars that I ponder over for ages and never actually finalise or develop a lexicon for, and Sevari is designed with this in mind. The inventory is on the small side and the phonology relatively straightforward. The grammar is 'simplified' (for lack of a better word) in that it is analytical and predominantly non-marking. I'm hoping this encourages me to focus on developing the lexicon a little more!
Sevari has a look that brings to mind the Balto-Slavic or Indo-Iranian languages, due to the presence of complex initial consonant clusters such as <vr>, <vl>, <dv>, etc, and the North Germanic languages, due to the <ð> grapheme and the use of <j> for /j/. However, grammatically, the language function more like a Sinitic language as a result of its fusional features being long since eroded.
Sevari is spoken in a hitherto unnamed region of the Zekharian Empire, the dominant language of which,
Zekharian, is closely related to Sevari. The capital of the Sevari-speaking region is Vjasa.
Sevari has a look that brings to mind the Balto-Slavic or Indo-Iranian languages, due to the presence of complex initial consonant clusters such as <vr>, <vl>, <dv>, etc, and the North Germanic languages, due to the <ð> grapheme and the use of <j> for /j/. However, grammatically, the language function more like a Sinitic language as a result of its fusional features being long since eroded.
Sevari is spoken in a hitherto unnamed region of the Zekharian Empire, the dominant language of which,
Zekharian, is closely related to Sevari. The capital of the Sevari-speaking region is Vjasa.
Sample of SevariCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeZechric
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Proto-Zechric
⤷ Sevaric
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Sevari
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Proto-Zechric⤷ Sevaric
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Sevari[view] About ZechricThe Zechric family comprises three of the major languages of the Zekharian Empire.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Other | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | [v]1 | ð̞ | s | z | x | ɧ | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /ʋ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Mid | e̞ | ə | o̞ | |||
| Open | ä | |||||
| Polyphthongs | e̞ɪ | äɪ | äʊ | e̞ʊ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sevari. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| SevariOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ä/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ee/e̞/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t̪/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/ʋ/, [v] | Zz/z/ | Ðð/ð̞/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
