Speak Cant [CPK]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersSpeak Cant is spoken by a population of 1 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Speak Cant
"When I can't speak, I Speak Cant."
Speak Cant originally began as an art project to create an annoying language (specifically one that was fun to speak, but annoying to listen to). It still is that, but it's a little more serious now. Speak Cant spelling is based on special categories of consonants and consonant clusters (called 'ngok'), and its grammar is mostly fusional with some agglutination, but I'm really dumb so it's not very natural.
# ok just a quick messy section for notes
# evidentiality is marked via prefix, 6 forms ::
# first-hand, inferential, assumed, dubitative,
# second-hand (reported by subject "quotative"), second-hand (reported by third-party "hearsay")
# nouns have five cases ::
# nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, and locative
# verbs have three tenses ::
# non-future, future, and remote past
# and three aspects ::
# progressive, perfective, and habitual
# as well as 4 moods ::
# indicative, conditional, imperative, and optative
# please don't click the "Marking Nouns" article below,
# the link is broken and it will time out the site
Speak Cant originally began as an art project to create an annoying language (specifically one that was fun to speak, but annoying to listen to). It still is that, but it's a little more serious now. Speak Cant spelling is based on special categories of consonants and consonant clusters (called 'ngok'), and its grammar is mostly fusional with some agglutination, but I'm really dumb so it's not very natural.
# ok just a quick messy section for notes
# evidentiality is marked via prefix, 6 forms ::
# first-hand, inferential, assumed, dubitative,
# second-hand (reported by subject "quotative"), second-hand (reported by third-party "hearsay")
# nouns have five cases ::
# nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, and locative
# verbs have three tenses ::
# non-future, future, and remote past
# and three aspects ::
# progressive, perfective, and habitual
# as well as 4 moods ::
# indicative, conditional, imperative, and optative
# please don't click the "Marking Nouns" article below,
# the link is broken and it will time out the site
Sample of Speak Cant[view] c'ecódsh ngé zné ishp c'unylk ngú c'unétaks / x'umédzh ngú x'unongú x'ulés fjaks
Hail is the whitest of grain; it is whirled from the vault of heaven.[view all texts]
Hail is the whitest of grain; it is whirled from the vault of heaven.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Speak Cant
Some sound samples of Speak Cant. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
g'esnóshk ngé g'uzhúngú g'ushémkaks
ll'a shingok ll'o yzhú ll'ufés dr...
I talk to the wind, and my words are all carried away.
I talk to the wind, and my words are all carried away.
g'emof ngé g'uzhungú g'icén fwacú
I like to eat fruit.
I like to eat fruit.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ʔ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | β | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ɣ | ʁ | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Click | ǃ | ǂ | ʞ | |||||||||||||
| Implosive | ʛ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ||||
| Open | a | ɒ | ||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Speak Cant. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Speak CantOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| y y /i/ | m im /m/ | n in /n/ | ng ing /ŋ/ | ú ú /u/ | b ib /b/ | d id /d/ | c ic /t͡s/ | c' c'u /ǃ/ |
| i i /ɪ/ | p ip /p/ | t it /t/ | k ik /k/ | g' g'u /ʛ/ | q' q'u /ʞ/ | é é /e/ | s is /s/ | sh ish /ʃ/ |
| z iz /z/ | zh izh /ʒ/ | o o /o/ | f fu /β/ | h hu /ɣ/ | e e /ɛ/ | j ju /j/ | l l /l/ | ll' ll' /ɬ/ |
| u u /ʌ/ | r ru /r/ | r' r'u /ʁ/ | w wu /w/ | a a /a/ | x' x'u /ǂ/ | ó ó /ɒ/ | – uh /ʔ/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
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