Calza [CLZ]
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[Deactivated User] on 17 February 2016
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Calza
A small language, designed to be spoken by black-skinned merchants who established a merchant republic in the desert of Tethri, south of Aiveago. Hopes to be a three-consonants-root lang but I have no idea how to do that, so I'll just give it a go and follow my way; grammar is generally isolating, though verbs decline by person and number in the present tense and there're a couple adjectival infixes.
Also Calza has pitch accent and a good deal of implosives that contrast with voiceless stops!
Also Calza has pitch accent and a good deal of implosives that contrast with voiceless stops!
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m ˀmʷ ˀmʲ | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | q qʷ | ʔ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | θ | [s]1 | z | χ χʷ χʲ | [ʁ]2 | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | [l]3 | ʟ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j ˀj | w ˀw | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]4 | ʀ | ||||||||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ ɓʶ | ɗ ɗʶ | ʄ | |||||||||||||
| Blends | ɗ̪ʁw |
- allophone of /z/
- allophone of /χʷ/
- allophone of /ʟ/
- allophone of /ʀ/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i í: | u ú: | ||
| Close-mid | e é: | o ó: | ||
| Open | a [á:] | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Calza. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 CalzaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/, [á:] | Cc/ʄ/ | Ee/e/, /é:/ | Ii/i/, /í:/ | Ll/ʟ/, [l] | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/, /ó:/ | Pp/p/ | P' p'/ɓ/ | P'Χ p'χ/ɓʶ/ |
| Qq/q/ | Q' q'/ʔ/ | Q'MW q'mw/ˀmʷ/ | Q'MY q'my/ˀmʲ/ | Q'W q'w/ˀw/ | Q'Y q'y/ˀj/ | QW qw/qʷ/ | Rr/ʀ/, [r] | Tt/t/ | T' t'/ɗ/ | T'Χ t'χ/ɗʶ/ |
| T'ΧW t'χw/ɗ̪ʁw/ | Uu/u/, /ú:/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/, [s] | Θθ/θ/ | Χχ/χ/, [ʁ] | ΧW χw/χʷ/ | ΧY χy/χʲ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
