Proto-Retgia-Dohaverang [RQR]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Proto-Retgia-Dohaverang
A fantastic protolang, that I have put on hold indefinitely.
In case you were wondering, the flag was supposed to be three strands combined into a circle of rope, with some kind of stripe pattern in the background.
Plural word in pre noun, it is different word when pluraling a noun with singular class
black pain == extreme pain
Plurality: Plurality is marked with a separate word that means "many", it takes different forms depending on a few types of noun classes
Sentence order: Subject-Object-Verb, verb-subject-object
definiteness:
pronouns: 1st, 2nd, 3rd and fourth
inclusivity
Imperative mood: Has a morphologically dedicated second person imperative that does not distinguish between singular and plural. Intensifier is used elsewhere
Negation: negative word before verbs followed by negative suffix as double marking
Nominal and locational predication: The language encodes the copula verb in "That man is a student" (nominal) and "That man is by the ocean" (locational) differently.
base 20, with a sub-base of 200
Evidentiality:
Diminutives and augmentatives: Has diminutive and augmentative derivational morphology, which can be expressed on nouns.
OV language
In case you were wondering, the flag was supposed to be three strands combined into a circle of rope, with some kind of stripe pattern in the background.
Plural word in pre noun, it is different word when pluraling a noun with singular class
black pain == extreme pain
Plurality: Plurality is marked with a separate word that means "many", it takes different forms depending on a few types of noun classes
Sentence order: Subject-Object-Verb, verb-subject-object
definiteness:
pronouns: 1st, 2nd, 3rd and fourth
inclusivity
Imperative mood: Has a morphologically dedicated second person imperative that does not distinguish between singular and plural. Intensifier is used elsewhere
Negation: negative word before verbs followed by negative suffix as double marking
Nominal and locational predication: The language encodes the copula verb in "That man is a student" (nominal) and "That man is by the ocean" (locational) differently.
base 20, with a sub-base of 200
Evidentiality:
Diminutives and augmentatives: Has diminutive and augmentative derivational morphology, which can be expressed on nouns.
OV language
Sample of Proto-Retgia-Dohaverang[view] 'um apetagawde
We (begin) burn(ing) (I don't know how long for).[view all texts]
We (begin) burn(ing) (I don't know how long for).[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeRretgia - Dohaven - Ngangreet
⤷ Proto-Retgia-Dohaverang
⤷ Proto-Retgia-Dohaverang
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t tʼ | d | k kʼ | g | ʔ1 | |||||||
Fricative | s | ʕ̞2 | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l3 | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j4 | w | ||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Blends | k͡p k͡pʼ | g͡b |
- There are rules against the glottal stop being used with ejectives at the suffix/root level.
- Actually a Voiced pharyngeal approximant,
- Does not appear word initially
- Never in a syllable/word final position. Never consonant-clustered inside a root or suffix.
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i1 | ɨ | [ɯ]2 | u | ||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɜ | ||||
Open | a3 |
- Does not appear word initially
- In free variation:, allophone of /u/
- /a/ is actually central, "[ä]".
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Proto-Retgia-Dohaverang. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Proto-Retgia-DohaverangOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
'/ʔ/1 | Aa/a/2 | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ëë/ɜ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/3 | Jj/j/4 | Kk/k/ | K̉ k̉/kʼ/ | Ll/l/5 |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | T̉ t̉/tʼ/ | Uu/u/, [ɯ]6 | Ww/w/ | Xx/ʕ̞/7 | Yy/ɨ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- There are rules against the glottal stop being used with ejectives at the suffix/root level.
- /a/ is actually central, "[ä]".
- Does not appear word initially
- Never in a syllable/word final position. Never consonant-clustered inside a root or suffix.
- Does not appear word initially
- In free variation:
- Actually a Voiced pharyngeal approximant,