Scanvaru [ZXL]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Scanvaru
There is a military caste dialect, but also accents from the various parts of the country. Many of them are non-rhotic.
Sample of Scanvaru[view] Clamoro miro me ģwaruhe bo / / Newahe novoģrelu tu he neehwal / / / / / he pomi / Toko, toko / / / / / / / / / / / / Novoģrele / / / Pamu novoģrele mitkonttaru bo / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Novoģrele / / / / / / / / / / Novoģrele / La la la la la, la la la la la / Mistkan bulugre (novoģrele) / La la...[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeEngol-Scanvaru
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ScanvaruPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||||
| Nasal | mˠ | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | k | g | q | ɢʱ | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]1 | β | f | (v) | θ2 | s | [z]3 | ʑ | x | ɣ | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | [p͡ɸ]4 | b͡β | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ȴ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ʋ]5 | ɻ | ʍ | w | ɰ | |||||||||||||||||
- In front of u, allophone of /f/
- Only survived in monosyllables
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /b͡β/
- allophone of /v/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɯᵝ | ||||
| Close-mid | e | |||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]1 | ɞ | ||||
| Open | a | [ɑ]2 | ɒ | |||
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Scanvaru. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| ScanvaruOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/, /a/, [ɑ] | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Ee/e/, [ɛ] | Ff/f/, [ɸ]1 | Ģģ/ɣ/ | Gg/g/ | GG gg/x/ | ĢW ģw/ɰ/ | Hh/h/ | HL hl/ȴ/ |
| HW hw/ʍ/ | Ii/i/ | Ķķ/ɢʱ/ | Kk/q/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/mˠ/ | Nn/n/ | NE ne/ɲ/ | NN nn/ŋ/ | Oo/ɒ/ | OE oe/ɞ/ |
| Pp/p/ | Rr/ɻ/ | Ss/s/, [z] | Tt/t̪/ | TH th/θ/2 | Uu/ɯᵝ/ | Vv/β/, /v/3, [ʋ] | Ww/w/ | ZH zh/ʑ/ | Ỽỽ/b͡β/, [p͡ɸ] | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- In front of u.
- Only survived in monosyllables
- loan words only
