Vardin (Language)
From Series Bible
Vardin is my consonantal root language. Highly experimental with a possibility I'm doing it all wrong.
Additionally, it's the language of the Vardin people and has four grammatical genders: rogue, hunter, householder, and plain. There are three grammatical numbers: singular, plural, collective, and a category of nouns where the number is considered "null", as the form is not identical to the singular.
Phonology
Vowels
| front / unrounded | near front / unrounded | central / unrounded | back / oral | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| oral | nasal | oral | nasal | oral | nasal | unrounded | rounded | |
| close | i | u | ||||||
| close mid | e | ẽ | ɪ | |||||
| mid | (ə) | o̞ | ||||||
| open mid | ɛ | ɛ̃ | (ɜr) | (ʌ) | ||||
| open | ä | ä̃ | ɑ | |||||
| Diphthongs | ae, aẽ, aj, ãj, ej, ja, je, jɪ, wɪ, wɛ | |||||||
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post-Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nasal | m | n | (ɲ) | ||||||
| plosive | voiced | b | |||||||
| voiceless | p | t | k | q (c) | ʔ ( ' ) | ||||
| affricate | sibilant | voiced | dʒ (j) | ||||||
| voiceless | ts | tʃ (ch) | |||||||
| fricative | sibilant | voiced | ʒ (jh) | ||||||
| voiceless | s | ʃ (sh) | ɕ - ç (sch) | ||||||
| non-sibilant | voiceless | f | θ (th) | x (kh) | h - ɦ (h) | ||||
| voiced | v | ||||||||
| approximant | central | ɹ (r) | w | ||||||
| lateral | ʎ - j (ll / y) | ||||||||
| flap | non-rhotic | ɺ (d / l) | |||||||
Consonants in parentheses are allophones.
