Dravindian

Dravindian is a Universal Language for Dravidian languages of southeast India.

𑀩𑁆𑀭𑀸𑀳𑁆𑀫𑀻 [bra.mi]
Timeline/Universe	Universal Language
Period	Future Utopia
Spoken in	South India
Total speakers	230 million
Writing system	Brahmi
Classification	Proto-Dravidian
Typology
Basic word order	SOV
Morphology	Fusional
Alignment	N-A
Credits
Created by	User:Aquatiki

Anthropology

Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu, Gondi, and Proto-Dravidian.

• 8 cases
• 3 genders
• clusivity
• agglutinative
• 5 vowels ... nasal?
• gemination
• n-a
• tu-vous
• negative on verbs
• polar q on verb
• SOV
• voiced and unvoiced, no aspirated or creaky

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	/m/ 𑀫	/n/ 𑀦	/ɳ/ 𑀡	/ɲ/ 𑀜	/ŋ/ 𑀗
Unvoiced	/p/ 𑀧	/t/ 𑀢	/ʈ/ 𑀝	/t͡ɕ~t͡ʃ~c/ 𑀘	/k/ 𑀓
Voiced	/b/ 𑀩	/d/ 𑀤	/ɖ/ 𑀟	/d͡ʒ~ɟ/ 𑀚	/g/ 𑀕
Fricative	/f~v~ʋ/ 𑀯	/s~z/ 𑀲	/ʂ/ 𑀱	/ɕ/ 𑀰	/h/ 𑀳
Lateral		/l/ 𑀮	/ɭ/ 𑀴
Approximant		/r/ 𑀭	/ɻ/ 𑀶	/j/ 𑀬

There are two more series for Indian/Hindi/Sanskrit loanwords, but they are not "native"

Aspirated	/pʰ/ 𑀨	/tʰ/ 𑀣	/ʈʰ/ 𑀞	/cʰ/ 𑀙	/kʰ/ 𑀔
Breathy	/bʰ/ 𑀪	/dʰ/ 𑀥	/ɖʰ/ 𑀠	/ɟʰ/ 𑀛	/gʰ/ 𑀖

Vowels

	Front Short	Front Long	Back Short	Back Long
High	/i/ 𑀇	/iː// 𑀈	/u/ 𑀉	/uː/ 𑀊
Mid	/e/ 𑀏	/eː// 𑀏𑁳	/o/ 𑀑	/oː/ 𑀑𑁰
Low			/a/ 𑀅	/aː/ 𑀆

CVN is the maximum syllable. Any consonant can geminate, which does not add to the previous coda.

Morphology

Universal Languages
AFRICA	SEDES (Horn of Africa), Middle Semitic (Semitic languages), Kintu (Bantu languages), Guosa (West Africa)
CENTRAL ASIA	Jalpi (Turkic languages), Zens (Iranian languages), Dravindian (Dravidian languages), Neo-Sanskrit (Indo-Aryan languages)
EUROPE	Interlingua (Romance languages), Folksprak (Germanic languages), Interslavic Slavic languages, Balkan (Balkans)
FAR EAST	Dan'a'yo (CJKV), MSEAL (Mainland Southeast Asia), Indo-Malay (Maritime Southeast Asia)