Zailoanese [ZAI]
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[Deactivated User] on 10 October 2016
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Zailoanese
A language created for a story I am writing. Heavily inspired upon Mandarin Chinese in terms of phonology and phonotactics.
Sample of Zailoanese[view] Sëubawa fel garrü shü? / -Sëubazu fel garrü. / -Jongsëubazu fel garrü. / Guüng garrü sëubawa shü? / -Sëubazu pe garrü.
Do you see the tree? / >I do see the tree. / >I don't see the tree. / Which tree do you see? / >I see that tree. / [view all texts]
Do you see the tree? / >I do see the tree. / >I don't see the tree. / Which tree do you see? / >I see that tree. / [view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeTaréde-Murang
⤷ Taréde-Murang Languages
⤷ Zailoanese
⤷ Taréde-Murang Languages
⤷ Zailoanese
[view] About Taréde-MurangThe Taréde-Murang language family is a tree based on the two original languages spoken in Kinge Taréde-Murang.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ɕ | x | ||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | y | ɯ | |||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||
Mid | ə | |||||
Open | a |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Zailoanese. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
ZailoaneseOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ëë/ə/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ |
Jj/d͡ʑ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/t͡ɕ/ | Rr/ɾ/ |
RR rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ɕ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ɯ/ | Üü/y/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/d͡z/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |