Riftspace Languages

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The primary language encountered in Riftspace is for names of the main civilization I'm working with (which itself needs a name).

Canonical Words

Character Names

  1. Bhäzäf • [ 'bʱæ.zæf ]
  2. Benoc • [ 'bɛ.nɔk ]
  3. Cor • [ 'kɔɹ ]
  4. Dhävur • [ 'dʱæ.vuɹ ]
  5. Haruset • [ 'hä.ɹu.sɛt ]
  6. Hasu • [ 'hä.su ], [ 'aʱ.sʊ ]
  7. Ide'a • [ 'i.dɛʔ.ə ]
  8. Ihera • [ 'i.hə.ɹə ], [ 'i.hɛ.ɹə ]
  9. Käsuru • [ 'kʰæɛ.su.ɹu ]
  10. Konot • [ 'kʰɔ.nɔt ]
  11. Mihzät • [ 'mi.zʱæt ]
  12. Nänere • [ 'nʌ.nɛ.ɹə ], [ 'næɛ.nɛ.ɹə ]
  13. Rhezerë • [ 'ɹʱɛ.zɛ.ɹɛ ]
  14. Säserhë • [ 'sæɛ.sɛ.ɹʱɛ ]
  15. Sumë • [ 'su.mɛ ]
  16. Nohe • [ 'nɔ.hə ]
  17. Tätemë • [ 'tʰæ.tʰɛ.mɛ ]
  18. Täseta • [ 'tʰæ.sɛ.tʰə ]
  19. Väna • [ 'væ.nə ]
  20. Zana • [ 'zä.nə ]

Spaceship Names

  1. A'tevh • [ 'äʔ.tʰɛvʱ ], [ 'äʔ.tʰɛf ]
  2. Bhäzäf • [ 'bʰæ.zəf ], [ 'bʰæɛ.zæf ]
  3. Maru • [ 'mä.ɹu ]
  4. Sävanes • [ 'sæɛ.və.nɛs ]
  5. Veset • [ 'vɛ.sɛt ] • blade

Location Names

  1. Äbhäräs • solar system
  2. Aves • [ 'ä.vəs ]
  3. Cänäf • [ 'kæ.nəf ], [ 'kæɛ.næf ]
  4. Ijeve • [ 'i.dʒɛ.və ]
  5. Kotanuf • [ 'kʰɔʔ.tə.nuf ]
  6. Misarha • kingdom

Spare Names

  1. 'ota
  2. surahtë
  3. ahzetu
  4. mäzë

Titles

  1. Säfahe • [ 'sæ.fə.hɛ ] • big sister

Vocabulary

  1. bhesë
  2. hamahe • [ ha.'ma.ə ] • integrated spaceship
  3. häzän
  4. hesocem • [ 'hɛ.sɔ.kɛm ] • earrings
  5. ivarem • [ 'i.və.ɹɛm ] • a person's hair
  6. isosem • The Esodesë ethnic group wear braided bracelets to signify personal loyalties toward family or a team or group one belongs to at a similar level of loyalty. A gift of an addition to an isosem bracelet is considered intimate, but in a friendly or familial way.
  7. marhë • [ 'ma.ɹʱɛ ] • ethnic or people group
  8. mäze • a kind of fish
  9. mäza • a dish made from fish
  10. neze • The Cänävesë equivalent of isosem is neze, which is braided into the hair instead of around the wrist. Anything woven into a braid represents one’s personal loyalty, family, or significant other.
  11. säfa • [ 'sæ.fə ] • sister

Phonology

Vowels

glyph phoneme examples
ä /æɛ/ or /æ/ bhazaf, nanere, kasuru, canaf, saserhi, dhavur
a /ä/ or /ə/ zana, maru, haruset, a'tevh, kotanuf, aves
e /ɛ/ or /ə/ nanere, tatemi, haruset, rhezeri, aves, avezesi
i or ë /i/ or /ɛ/ ijeve, rhezeri, tatemi, saserhi, canavesi
o /ɔ/ kotanuf, nohe, cor, benok
u /u/ kotanuf, kasuru, maru
  1. a₁ does not occur word-initially or word-finally in open syllables.
  2. /æɛ/ occurs only on stressed syllables, even in the dialects that prefer it. /æ/ occurs in all other conditions.
  3. /ä/ occurs only on stressed syllables. /ə/ occurs in all other positions.
  4. /ɛ/ and /i/ occur in all positions, except unstressed word-final open syllables, where their allophones /ə/ and /ɛ/ occur instead, respectively.
Front Central Back
Close i u
Open-Mid ɛ ɔ
Open æ ä

Consonants

Phonemic Consonants
Labial Coronal Post-alveolar Velar Glottal
nasal m n
obstruent aspirated t /tʰ/ k /kʰ/
voiceless t /t/ c /k/ ' /ʔ/
voiced b /b/ d j /dʒ/
murmured bh /bʱ/ dh /dʱ/
fricative voiceless f /f/ s /s/ h /h/
voiced v /v/ z /z/
murmured vh /vʱ/ hz /zʱ/
approximant voiced r /ɾ-ɹ/
murmured rh /ɹʱ/
  1. Voiced consonants cannot be word final.
  2. /f/ cannot be word initial.

Grammar

2/7/18

Updated 5/30/18

  1. Aves, n.
    1. Avezesë, adj.
  2. Cänäf, n. place name
    1. Cänävesë, adj. of or related to Cänäf, e.g. The woman was Cänävesë and wore Cänävesë clothing.
  3. Ijeve, n.
    1. Ijevesë / Ijevenë, adj.
  4. Kotanuf, n.
    1. Kotanuves / Kotanuven, adj.

4/16/18

So the other day, I figured out Veset meant blade, so since there's a blade class spaceship, it's been noodling in the back of my brain how to call that. Today, I settled on hamahe vezesot, with the first word meaning "integrated spaceship" vs. a ship that has no human avatar, and -esot meaning "class" essentially, though I can tell it's not that simple were I to unpack it. Hamahe is also my first riftspace word with stress on the second syllable rather than the first and the medial <h> is silent, particularly interesting to me because it is not silent in the name Nohe.