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clare_dragonfly) wrote2016-01-01 07:24 pm
clare_dragonfly) wrote2016-01-01 07:24 pm
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Languary - Day 1
All the #Lexember posts last month got the conlang wheels churning in my brain--so I couldn't help but join in when I saw that #Languary is going on this month! I've started work on the languages of a broad fantasy world that's been in the back of my mind for a while, and I may work on all of them this month, but I'll be focusing on the main one.
This language, as I'm building it, is actually a dead language--it's the language used for everything official by the empire that rules a large chunk of this world, and it is not used as the vernacular anymore. It's been wrangled pretty severely for regularity and strict structure. I may include some information on what the vernacular forms are like when I get to actual vocabulary (there are at least two other languages spoken widely in the empire, and the primary one does draw heavily on this language).
Anyway, what I have so far is the phonemes. Below the cut are consonants, and then vowels, in rough order of how common they are.
d
g
v
∂ (hard th, as in there)
z
n
s
j
t
k
f
† (soft th, as in thick)
zh
sh
r (trill)
rh (back-of-the-throat French-type r)
glottal stop (')
h
a (ā)
ah (a)
e (ē)
eh (e)
i (ī)
ih (i)
schwa (ę--yes, I know this is fairly nonsensical, but I can't make a schwa with my standard keyboard and I don't want to be copying and pasting every time)
u (this is an unrounded, high, back vowel; u is the best representation in the English alphabet)
The only other thing I've decided is that plurals are formed by a change to the final vowel of a word. Let's see what I come up with tomorrow!
This language, as I'm building it, is actually a dead language--it's the language used for everything official by the empire that rules a large chunk of this world, and it is not used as the vernacular anymore. It's been wrangled pretty severely for regularity and strict structure. I may include some information on what the vernacular forms are like when I get to actual vocabulary (there are at least two other languages spoken widely in the empire, and the primary one does draw heavily on this language).
Anyway, what I have so far is the phonemes. Below the cut are consonants, and then vowels, in rough order of how common they are.
d
g
v
∂ (hard th, as in there)
z
n
s
j
t
k
f
† (soft th, as in thick)
zh
sh
r (trill)
rh (back-of-the-throat French-type r)
glottal stop (')
h
a (ā)
ah (a)
e (ē)
eh (e)
i (ī)
ih (i)
schwa (ę--yes, I know this is fairly nonsensical, but I can't make a schwa with my standard keyboard and I don't want to be copying and pasting every time)
u (this is an unrounded, high, back vowel; u is the best representation in the English alphabet)
The only other thing I've decided is that plurals are formed by a change to the final vowel of a word. Let's see what I come up with tomorrow!
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