Rashintu [RSHT]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersRashintu is spoken by a population of around 55,000 in Nesyania.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Rashintu
Rashintu (raśiinṭu raśiinṭu), also known as Zaymayan or Zmaimoyani is a Northern Desanian language spoken by a small ethnic minority in western Nesyania. It is not mutually intelligible with any other Desanian language.
(I don't know what I'm doing with my life deriving another conlang from Old Desani)
Anyway, the ✨main features✨
(I don't know what I'm doing with my life deriving another conlang from Old Desani)
Anyway, the ✨main features✨
- agglutinative/fusional, nom-acc, head-final (like other desanlangs)
- two noun classes (human vs. non-human) + nine nominal and eight pronominal cases
- all long vowels are marked with double letters so there's lots of aaaa stuff around (ibaarśaaḍe, raḍuusasiip, təbaarḍiirjhi)
- if this language existed in real life, the speakers of related languages probably would look at its aesths with awe and horror (and I thought Keranian was cursed)
- grammar article: CLICK
Language family relationships
Language treeDesanian
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Proto-Desanian
⤷ Old Desani
⤷ North Desanian
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Rashintu
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Proto-Desanian⤷
Old Desani⤷ North Desanian
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Rashintu[view] About DesanianOne of the language families of the western regions of Dawera, among a few other unrelated groups of languages. It is divided into two branches: Southern and Northern.
Modern Desanian languages, all descending from Old Desani, are spoken by over 40 ...
Modern Desanian languages, all descending from Old Desani, are spoken by over 40 ...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ | n | [ɳ]1 | ɲ | [ŋ]2 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ | b bʲ | t3 tʲ | d4 dʲ | ʈ | ɖ | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | s | z | ɕ | h | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l lʲ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ ɾʲ | |||||||||||||||
- before retroflexes, allophone of /n/
- before velars, allophone of /n/
- actually dental [t̪]
- actually dental [d̪]
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Near-open | æ æ: | |||||
| Open | ɑ ɑ: | |||||
Syllable StructureCVːC max
Stress informationThe last syllable with a long vowel is stressed. If there are no long vowels, the stress falls on the last syllable by default, unless the last vowel of a word is a schwa. Conjugation/declension suffixes generally do not count.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Rashintu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| RashintuOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a a /ɑ/ | b b /b/ | p p /p/ | j j /d͡z/ | jh jh /d͡ʑ/ | c c /t͡s/ | ch ch /t͡ɕ/ | d d /d/1 | ḍ ḍ /ɖ/ | t t /t/2 |
| ṭ ṭ /ʈ/ | ė ə /ə/ | e e /æ/ | i i /i/ | y y /j/ | h h /h/ | g g /g/ | k k /k/ | l l /l/ | r r /ɾ/ |
| m m /m/ | n n /n/, [ɳ]3, [ŋ]4 | ṅ ń /ɲ/ | s s /s/ | ś ś /ɕ/ | u u /u/ | w w /w/ | z z /z/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
- actually dental [d̪]
- actually dental [t̪]
- before retroflexes
- before velars
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