Difference between revisions of "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).

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

a₁ does not occur word-initially or word-finally in open syllables.
/æɛ/ occurs only on stressed syllables, even in the dialects that prefer it. /æ/ occurs in all other conditions.
/ä/ occurs only on stressed syllables. /ə/ occurs in all other positions.
/ɛ/ and /i/ occur in all positions, except unstressed word-final open syllables, where their allophones /ə/ and /ɛ/ occur instead, respectively.

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/
approximant	murmured		rh /ɹʱ/

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 # Kotanuf • [ 'kʰɔʔ.tə.nuf ]
 # Maru • [ 'mä.ɹu ]
+# Mihzat • [ 'mi.zʰæt ]
 # Nänere • [ 'nʌ.nɛ.ɹə ], [ 'næɛ.nɛ.ɹə ]
-# Rhezeri • [ 'ɹʰɛ.zɛ.ɹɛ ]
+# Rhezerë • [ 'ɹʰɛ.zɛ.ɹɛ ]
-# Säserhi • [ 'sæɛ.sɛ.ɹʰɛ ]
+# Säserhë • [ 'sæɛ.sɛ.ɹʰɛ ]
 # Savanes • [ 'sæɛ.və.nɛs ]
 # Nohe • [ 'nɔ.hə ]
-# Tätemi • [ 'tʰæ.tʰɛ.mɛ ]
+# Tätemë • [ 'tʰæ.tʰɛ.mɛ ]
 # Täseta • [ 'tʰæ.sɛ.tʰə ]
 # Väna • [ 'væ.nə ]