Zekharian [ZKH]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Zekharian
Zekharian (Zekhólsa) is a Zechric language spoken by the Zer people in Zekharia (Zekhaar), the central province of the Zekharian Empire. As the de jure official language of the empire and a lingua franca in much of the known world, Zekharian is a language that is for some the most prestigious, but for others the most supercilious and oppressive.
Language family relationships
Language treeZechric
⤷ Proto-Zechric
⤷ Old Zekherian
⤷ Zekharian
⤷ Proto-Zechric
⤷ Old Zekherian
⤷ Zekharian
[view] About ZechricThe Zechric family comprises three of the major languages of the Zekharian Empire.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | ||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | b | t̪ t̪ʰ | d̪ | k kʰ | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | s̪ | ʁ̞ | h | ||||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s̪ | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l̪ | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | [j] | [w] |
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | [ɨ]1 | [ʉ]2 | u | ||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]3 | [ʊ]4 | ||||||||
Mid | e̞ | [ə]5 | o̞ | |||||||
Near-open | [ɐ]6 | |||||||||
Open | a | ɑ |
Polyphthongs | aʊ | aɪ | ɛə | e̞ʊ |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e̞/
- allophone of /o̞/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Zekharian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
ZekharianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa a /ɑ/, [ɐ], [ə] | AA aa aa /a/ | Bb ba /b/ | Dd da /d̪/ | Ee e /e̞/, [ɪ] | Ff fa /f/ | Gg ga /g/ | Hh ha /h/ | Ii i /i/, [j], [ɨ] |
Kk ka /k/ | KH kh kha /kʰ/ | Ll la /l̪/ | Mm ma /m/ | Nn na /n̪/ | Oo o /o̞/, [ʊ] | Pp pa /p/ | PH ph pha /pʰ/ | Rr ra /ʁ̞/ |
Ss sa /s̪/ | Tt ta /t̪/ | TH th tha /t̪ʰ/ | Uu u /u/, [w], [ʉ] | Vv va /w/ | Yy ya /j/ | Zz za /t͡s̪/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |