Kvian [CTR]
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Kvian
Kvíaros [kʰʋíərɔs]*
Kvíaros [kʰʋíərɔs]*
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kvian
Fun facts about Kvian:
- Ergative-absolutive alignment/nominative-accusative in future tense
- VOS word order: Āvreí kota hélsen "Loves dog woman"
- There is only an indefinite determiner "ve" that agrees with case and number
- No gender
- Verbs don't agree to number, or person
- Relative clauses can only be applied to an ergative or absolutive, and in some cases (imperatives) vocative nouns. In all other places where English uses relative clauses make, Kvian uses participles or adpositional phrases.
Sample of Kvian[view] Ikén tenglís meslia yé.
She jumped off the cliff onto the grass[view all texts]
She jumped off the cliff onto the grass[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ɕ | h | ||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||
Open | a a: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kvian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
KvianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa/a/ | Āā/a:/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ɕ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ēē/e:/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ |
Īī/i:/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʑ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Ōō/o:/ | Pp/p/ |
Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ɕ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ūū/u:/ | Vv/ʋ/ | Yy/j/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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