Bayran [BAIR]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersBayran is spoken by a population of around 22,000,000 in Gaodunach.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Bayran
Bayran, or in natively “baírann”, is a language spoken in Gaodunac which is located 2800km north of Quralzag. The language is classified as a Celtic language, under the family branch of Bair Languages. The proto langauge was spoken by the group of Baír people, which had inhabited the nation 2200 years ago. Accordiong to the old manuscript found in the cave of Henad, the Baír had a common vernacular communication using Bayran and was set as the official language for documents and politics. After a thousand years, the language evolved into Middle Late Bayran during the 17th Century. Many literatures were produced by writers in Gaodunach that advocated and spread the language into mainstream. Nowadays, there are 22 million people speaking Modern Bayran, including 130K who speak as their second language.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ | n nʲ | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ | b bʲ | t tʲ | d dʲ | c | k | g gʲ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f fʲ | v vʲ | ð | s | z zʲ | ʃ | ç1 | χ2 | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s3 | t͡ʃ4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l lʲ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | ʀ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ŋk |
- only appeared in mutation
- only appeared in mutation
- only appeared in lenition
- only appeared in lenition
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Close-mid | [e]1 e: | [o]2 o: | ||||
| Mid | ə ə: | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ: | ||||
| Open | [a]3 a: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | uai | io io: | ai ai: | ou | ui ui: | eu eu: | əu | ei ei: | ɛi | ia |
| iu | əi əi: | uə | ua: | oi: | ue: |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /ə/
- allophone of /ə/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Bayran. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 BayranOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa[a] | Áá/a:/ | Bb/b/, /bʲ/ | Cc/k/, /c/ | Dd/dʲ/, /d/ | DD dd/ð/ | Ee[e] | Éé/e:/ | Ff/vʲ/, /v/ | FF ff/fʲ/, /f/ | Gg/gʲ/, /g/ |
| Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Íí/i:/ | Jj/j/ | Ll/l/, /lʲ/ | LL ll/ɬ/ | Mm/mʲ/, /m/ | Nn/n/, /nʲ/ | NN nn/ŋ/ | NGH ngh/ŋk/ | Oo[o] |
| Óó/o:/ | Pp/pʲ/, /p/ | Rr/r/ | RR rr/ʀ/ | Ss/s/, /ʃ/ | Tt/t/, /tʲ/ | Uu[u] | Úú/u:/ | Vv/w/ | Yy/ə/ | Ýý/ə:/ |
| Zz/zʲ/, /z/ | AI ai/ai/ | AÍ aí/ai:/ | AO ao/i:/ | AOI aoi/i:/ | EA ea/ɛ/ | EAI eai/ɛi/ | EI ei/ei/ | ÉI éi/ei:/ | EO eo/io/ | ÉO éo/ɔ:/ |
| EOI eoi/io:/ | EU eu/eu/ | ÉU éu/eu:/ | IA ia/ia/ | IO io/u/ | ÍO ío/u:/ | IU iu/iu/ | IUI iui/u:/ | OI oi/əi/ | OÍ oí/əi:/ | UA ua/uə/ |
| UÁ uá/ua:/ | UAI uai/uai/ | UÁI uái/ua:/ | UI ui/ui/ | UÍ uí/ui:/ | ÚI úi/ue:/ | YÓ yó/ou/ | YÓI yói/oi:/ | YÚ yú/əu/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
