Urthkothian [FQZ]
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Urthkothian
Eþkă̠ð [ɛa̯θkʰäɔ̯:ð]*
UrthkothianEþkă̠ð [ɛa̯θkʰäɔ̯:ð]*
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of UrthkothianCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Velar | Other | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n1 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | [b]2 | t tʰ | [d]3 | k4 kʰ | [g]5 | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | θ6 | ð7 [ð̞]8 | s | (z) | ɕ | (ʑ) | x | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡ɕ [t͡ɕʰ]9 | [d͡ʑ]10 | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l11 | [ɫ]12 | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r13 r̥ | |||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]14 | |||||||||||||
| Blends | ssʷs15 | ɕɕʷɕ | (ʑʑʷʑ) | xxʷx | (zzʷz) |
- syllabic between consonants
- intervocally and by voiced fricatives, allophone of /p/
- intervocally and by voiced fricatives, allophone of /t/
- velars naturally are fronted [k̟] before light vowels and retracted [k̠] before dark vowels
- intervocally and by voiced fricatives, allophone of /k/
- usually bidental
- usually bidental
- intervocally, allophone of /ð/
- mostly migrated to /t͡ɕ/; often hypercorrected, allophone of /t͡ɕ/
- allophonoically /t͡ɕ/ intervocally and by voiced fricatives; may be in loan words, allophone of /t͡ɕ/
- in front-vowel harmony words; consonant harmony with /ɫ/. Syllabic between consonants
- in open-vowel harmony words; consonant harmony with /l/, allophone of /l/
- syllabic between consonants
- allophone of /r/
- swish consonants are long fricatives that begin and end normal but are rounded midway through.
| Vowels | Central | |
| Mid | ə1 ə: [ə̥]2 | |
| Polyphthongs | ɛa̯: ɛa̯ | äɔ̯: äɔ̯ | ɔe̯: ɔe̯ | aɛ̯: aɛ̯ | ɪə̯: ɪə̯ | ɪʊ̯: ɪʊ̯ | əʊ̯: əʊ̯ | ʊɪ̯: ʊɪ̯ | ɔä̯: ɔä̯ | əɪ̯: əɪ̯ |
| eɔ̯: eɔ̯ | ʊə̯: ʊə̯ |
- transparent neutral vowel. Note: Vowels may be long or short (denoted by <g>).
- frequent realization of aspirated consonants not followed by a vowel; spelled in Romanization
Syllable StructureCCCVCC. Yes, it's fun to say ðdraeoaþtsčroeğt.
More specifically it's (F/T)(P)(F/L/T/N)V(F)(P)
More specifically it's (F/T)(P)(F/L/T/N)V(F)(P)
Stress informationdifferent words have different stress in different circumstances, but has a system reminiscent of Swedish or Japanese with a distinct dropping tone for lexical distinctions (but not spelled in Romanization)
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Urthkothian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 UrthkothianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa A Niudfa /ə/1 | Á á Á /aɛ̯/ | Ă ă Ă /äɔ̯/ | Bb Ba /p/, [b]2 | Cc Ca, Cha /t͡ɕ/, [t͡ɕʰ]3, [d͡ʑ]4 | Dd Da /t/, [d]5 | Ee E /ɛa̯/ | É é É /əɪ̯/ | Ĕ ĕ Ĕ /eɔ̯/ | Ff Fa /f/ |
| ∅g Ga /k/6, [g]7 | Hh[ə̥]8 | Ii I /ɪə̯/ | Ĭ ĭ Ú /ɪʊ̯/ | Kk Ka /kʰ/ | Ll La /l/9, [ɫ]10 | Mm Ma /m/ | Nn Na /n/11 | Oo O /ɔä̯/ | Ó ó Ó /ɔe̯/ |
| Ŏ ŏ Ŏ /əʊ̯/ | Rr Ra /r/12, [ɾ] | R̥ r̥ R̥a /r̥/ | Ss Sa /s/ | Sᶲ sᶲ Sa Sᶲéig /ssʷs/13 | Tt Ta /tʰ/ | Uu U /ʊə̯/ | Ú ú Ĭ /ʊɪ̯/ | Xx Xa /x/ | Xᶲ xᶲ Xa Sᶲéig /xxʷx/ |
| Zz Za /z/14 | Zᶲ zᶲ Za Sᶲéig /zzʷz/15 | Ðð Ða /ð/16, [ð̞]17 | Þþ Þa /θ/18 | Ʃʃ Ʃa /ɕ/ | Ʃᶲ ʃᶲ Ʃa Sᶲéig /ɕɕʷɕ/ | Ʒʒ Ʒa /ʑ/19 | Ʒᶲ ʒᶲ Ʒa Sᶲéig /ʑʑʷʑ/20 | ̠ Tĭléfa // | |
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- transparent neutral vowel. Note: Vowels may be long or short (denoted by <g>).
- intervocally and by voiced fricatives
- mostly migrated to /t͡ɕ/; often hypercorrected.
- allophonoically /t͡ɕ/ intervocally and by voiced fricatives; may be in loan words
- intervocally and by voiced fricatives
- velars naturally are fronted [k̟] before light vowels and retracted [k̠] before dark vowels
- intervocally and by voiced fricatives
- frequent realization of aspirated consonants not followed by a vowel; spelled in Romanization
- in front-vowel harmony words; consonant harmony with /ɫ/. Syllabic between consonants
- in open-vowel harmony words; consonant harmony with /l/
- syllabic between consonants
- syllabic between consonants
- swish consonants are long fricatives that begin and end normal but are rounded midway through.
- loan words only
- loan words only
- usually bidental
- intervocally
- usually bidental
- loan words only
- loan words only
