Anzali [ANH]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Anzali
Anzali belongs to the Talitic languages and is spoken in Ankurnak in southern Scaba. The people speaking it call themselves Šĕnanzai, which roughly translates as "People of the Sun".
Some grammar notes:
- agglutinative language
- Ergative/Absolutive alignment
- no grammatical gender
- 7 cases (and one base form - I'm not sure of the proper linguistic term...)
- the word order is SOV
The writing system is a syllabary and consists of 210 different glyphs. The example shows the sentence Nimrĕšempotak ukaštārak anufeha, "Nimrĕšempo sees the Emperor".
Some grammar notes:
- agglutinative language
- Ergative/Absolutive alignment
- no grammatical gender
- 7 cases (and one base form - I'm not sure of the proper linguistic term...)
- the word order is SOV
The writing system is a syllabary and consists of 210 different glyphs. The example shows the sentence Nimrĕšempotak ukaštārak anufeha, "Nimrĕšempo sees the Emperor".
Sample of Anzali[view] Ňehetitak hitānrak midafēha. Hitāntak ňehetarak midafēha.
The bird saw the fish. / / The fish saw the bird.[view all texts]
The bird saw the fish. / / The fish saw the bird.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k kʷ | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʐ | χ | |||||||||
Affricate | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i: | u: | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ʊ | |||||||
Close-mid | e: | o: | ||||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
Near-open | æ | |||||||||
Open | a a: |
Polyphthongs | aʊ | aɪ | əʊ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Anzali. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
AnzaliOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Ăă/æ/ | Aa/a/ | Āā/a:/ | AI ai/aɪ/ | AU au/aʊ/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ēē/e:/ | Ĕĕ/ɛ/ |
Ee/ʏ/ | EU eu/əʊ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/χ/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Īī/i:/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ |
KW kw/kʷ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ňň/ɲ/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Ōō/o:/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ |
Šš/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Ūū/u:/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/z/ | Žž/ʐ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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