Telnic [ZDR]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Telnic
Telnic is the language spoken on Telna, an archipelago of the northeastern coast of Europe.
It is an isolate language, though it has been suggested to be a part of the hypothetical Proto-Nostratic languages.
Telnic primarily uses object-subject-verb word order, but due to its class system, free word order is commonly used in poetry and music. It is a tripartite language. Gender is either masculine or feminine, with even first and second person pronouns have gendered forms. Words in Telnic can have formidable consonant clusters (though, arguably, the syllabic consonants can count as vowels of sorts), in words such as sprvkali and cbṙkstvana, but are uncommon.
It is an isolate language, though it has been suggested to be a part of the hypothetical Proto-Nostratic languages.
Telnic primarily uses object-subject-verb word order, but due to its class system, free word order is commonly used in poetry and music. It is a tripartite language. Gender is either masculine or feminine, with even first and second person pronouns have gendered forms. Words in Telnic can have formidable consonant clusters (though, arguably, the syllabic consonants can count as vowels of sorts), in words such as sprvkali and cbṙkstvana, but are uncommon.
Sound samples in Telnic
Some sound samples of Telnic. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Ċidak men ċom ez!
We eat food!
We eat food!
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ȵ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | ȶ | ȡ | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | s | z | ɕ | ʑ | χ | ʁ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | p̪͡f | b̪͡v | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʟ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | ɨˤ | u | |||||
| Near-close | ɪˤ | ʏ | ||||||
| Close-mid | ɵˤ | ɤˤ | ||||||
| Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||||||
| Near-open | æˤ | ɐ | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | ou | ɐʏ | œʏ | ɛu | ɐu | ɐi | ɛi | ɨiˤ | ɪuˤ | ɤiˤ |
| ɪiˤ | ɨuˤ | æiˤ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Telnic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TelnicOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Ąą Ąṡ /æˤ/ | Aa Alfa /ɐ/ | Bb Bravo /b/ | Ḃḃ Ḃanċi /b̪͡v/ | Ċċ Ċarli /t͡ɕ/ | Cc Car /t͡s/ | Dd Delta /d/ | Ḋḋ Ḋelhi /ȡ/ | Ęę Ętęk /ɨˤ/ | Ee Eḣo /e̞/ | Ff Foctrot /ɸ/ |
| Gg Golf /g/ | Ġġ Ġuż /ʁ/ | Ḣḣ Ḣaim /χ/ | Hh Hotel /h/ | Ii India /i/ | Įį Įxċel /ɪˤ/ | Jj Juliett /j/ | Kk Kilo /k/ | Ll Lima /l/ | Mm Maik /m/ | Nn Novembr /n/ |
| Ňň Ňame /ȵ/ | Ṅṅ Ṅujen /ŋ/ | Ǫǫ Ǫql /ɵˤ/ | Oo Oskr /o̞/ | Pp Papa /p/ | Ṗṗ Ṗeffr /p̪͡f/ | Qq Qebekk /ɬ/ | Ṙṙ Ṙovr /ʟ/ | Rr Romeo /ɾ/ | Ss Siera /s/ | Ṡṡ Ṡariar /ɕ/ |
| Ṫṫ Ṫaana /ȶ/ | Tt Taṅgo /t/ | Ųų Ųlstr /ɤˤ/ | Uu Unįform /u/ | Vv Vįktor /β/ | Ww Wįski /ɮ/ | Ẋẋ Ẋakarta /d͡ʑ/ | Xx Xrey /d͡z/ | Yy Yṅki /ʏ/ | Żż Żak /ʑ/ | Zz Zulu /z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
