Early Modern Erával [MDERV]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersEarly Modern Erával is spoken by a population of around 500,000 in Erával.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Early Modern Erával
Agasté lá úomva, ási'hárcaús hú sí hiéveús 'ú sia váras márgoleas ve: ocpéin lá hathacioráth vas c' dhalgaorvosiovás Erávahalail.
Greetings, o respectable gentlemen, respectable ladies, and unimportant people: I welcome you to the page for the Erávilim language.
Erávahal is my current primary project and a literary language among the Erávilim. It is a synthetic a priori language, featuring such elements as:
Greetings, o respectable gentlemen, respectable ladies, and unimportant people: I welcome you to the page for the Erávilim language.
Erávahal is my current primary project and a literary language among the Erávilim. It is a synthetic a priori language, featuring such elements as:
- VSO word order
- Nominative-accusative alignment, except for this weirdo
- A vigesimal numeral system
- The paucal number
- A lack of egocentric direction
- Extremely head-initial grammar
- Highly synthetic vocabulary
Sample of Early Modern Erával[view] Lóeth vas Erávaras tua Erávahaluidh. Óniueth ú váró voior siénin ó vár Untol.
English is spoken in England. its capital is London.[view all texts]
English is spoken in England. its capital is London.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeErával
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Proto-Erával
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Early Modern ErávalPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | c | k | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | x | ɣ | [ħ]1 | [h]2 | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | çp | mb | pf | ɕy | çt | ɕi | çk | ɕə | ɕɛ |
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /x/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | y: | ʉ | u: | ||||||
| Near-close | ʏ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | ø | o o: | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ɔ | ||||||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||||
| Open | a | ɑ: | ||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɛɪ | oʊ | aɪ | aʊ |
Syllable StructureCVVVCC
Stress informationStress falls on the second syllable of a word.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Early Modern Erával. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Early Modern ErávalOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| s s sín /s/ | x th thaem /θ/ | t t tia /t/ | d dh adhoan /ð/ | e e em /ɛ/ | k é enia /ɛ:/ | m m mí /m/ | n n né /n/ | o o onahar /o/ | q ó ougár /o:/ | l l lon /l/ | r r rea /ɾ/ |
| u u une /ʉ/ | w ú uomna /u:/ | a a an /a/ | b á aona /ɑ:/ | c c cun /k/ | h h cúmna /x/, [h], [ħ] | g g gán /ɣ/ | i i in /i/ | j í iem /y:/ | f f afan /f/ | p p pei /p/ | v v vuim /v/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||||
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