Hiskan [HISK]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersHiskan is spoken by a population of around 245,000,000 in Hiska.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Hiskan
Spoken in the fictional country of Hiska.
Language family relationships
Language treeImeian
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Proto-Imeian
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Hiskan
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Proto-Imeian⤷
Hiskan[view] About ImeianThe languages descended from Old Imeian.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | b | t tʰ | d | k kʰ | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [x]1 | ɣ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||||||||||
| Blends | wa | je | jə | ju | wə | ns | ŋk | wo | jo | ja |
| we | m͡ŋ |
- allophone of /h/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɨ | u | |||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | aw | ej | əj | əw | aj | oj | ow | ew | uj |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Hiskan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| HiskanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a/a/ | ai/aj/ | au/aw/ | b/b/ | bg/ɓ/ | c/t͡s/ | ch/t͡ʃ/ | d/d/ | dg/ɗ/ | dz/d͡z/ |
| e/e/ | ea/ɛ/ | ei/ej/ | eu/ew/ | f/f/ | g/g/ | gh/ɣ/ | h/h/, [x] | i/i/ | ia/ja/ |
| ie/je/ | io/jo/ | j/d͡ʒ/ | k/k/ | kh/kʰ/ | l/l/ | m/m/ | mg/m͡ŋ/ | n/n/ | ng/ŋ/ |
| nh/ɲ/ | nk/ŋk/ | ns/ns/ | o/o/ | oa/ɔ/ | oe/ə/ | oi/oj/ | ou/ow/ | ow/əw/ | oy/əj/ |
| p/p/ | ph/pʰ/ | r/ɾ/ | s/s/ | sh/ʃ/ | t/t/ | th/tʰ/ | u/u/ | ua/wa/ | ue/we/ |
| ui/uj/ | uo/wo/ | v/v/ | w/w/ | wo/wə/ | x/z/ | y/j/, /ɨ/ | yo/jə/ | yu/ju/ | z/ʒ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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Hiskan Calendar
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