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== Vowels ==
== Vowels ==
PHONOLOGY:


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ORTHOGRAPHY:


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!Close
!Close
|i y || || || || u
|i* y* || || || || u*
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!
!
| || i* y* || || u*  
| || i** y** || || u**  
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!Close-Mid
!Close-Mid
|e ø || || || || o
|e* ø* || || || || o*
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!
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| || || e**
| || || e***
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!Open-Mid
!Open-Mid
|e* ø* || || || || o*
|e** ø** || || || || o**
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!
!
|a*
|a**
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!Open
!Open
|a
|a*
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> These vowels are called "long vowels" and are pronounced this way when before one consonant, another vowel, or at the end of a word. These vowels are actually elongated when doubled or when there's an acute accent on the letter (which also makes that vowel's syllable stressed).
<nowiki>**</nowiki> These vowels are called "short vowels" and are pronounced this way when before two or more consonants, which included digraphs.
<nowiki>***</nowiki>


= Grammar =
= Grammar =


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Revision as of 14:40, 14 December 2010

Chreientae (chreientae, IPA: [ˈxreɪəntaɪ]) is a constructed language which came under creation during November, 2010. The name of the conlang literally means "created language," or "made-up language." Chreientae is a priori language, despite few loan words from languages such as English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.

Phonology / Orthography

Consonants

PHONOLOGY:

Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Labial-Palatal Velar Labaial-Velar Uvular Glottal
Plosive /p/ /b/ /t/ /d/ /k/ /g/ /q/ /ɢ/ /ʔ/
Nasal /m/ /n/ /ɲ/ /ŋ/
Trill /r/ /ʀ/
Fricative /f/ /v/ /θ/ /ð/ /s/ /z/ /ʃ/ /ʒ/ /x/ /ɣ/
Lateral Fricative /ɬ/ /ɮ/
Approximant /j/ /ɥ/ /w/
Lateral Approximant /l/ /ʎ/

ORTHOGRAPHY:

Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Labial-Palatal Velar Labaial-Velar Uvular Glottal
Plosive p b t d k g q c w
Nasal m n gn** ng**
Trill r r*
Fricative f v th** ð s s* ş z ch** h
Lateral Fricative tl** dl**
Approximant j ȳ ł
Lateral Approximant l gl**

* The times when these consonants take this pronunciation must be memorized

** The times when these consonants are pronounced exactly the way they look must be memorized

Vowels

PHONOLOGY:

Front Central Back
Close /i/ /y/ /u/
/ɪ/ /ʏ/ /ʊ/
Close-Mid /e/ /ø/ /o/
/ə/
Open-Mid /ɛ/ /œ/ /ɔ/
/æ/
Open /a/

ORTHOGRAPHY:

Front Central Back
Close i* y* u*
i** y** u**
Close-Mid e* ø* o*
e***
Open-Mid e** ø** o**
a**
Open a*

* These vowels are called "long vowels" and are pronounced this way when before one consonant, another vowel, or at the end of a word. These vowels are actually elongated when doubled or when there's an acute accent on the letter (which also makes that vowel's syllable stressed).

** These vowels are called "short vowels" and are pronounced this way when before two or more consonants, which included digraphs.

***

Grammar

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