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Revision as of 14:27, 15 March 2006
| X-3 | |
| Spoken in: | n.a. |
| Timeline/Universe: | n.a. |
| Total speakers: | n.a. |
| Genealogical classification: | a priori experimental language |
| Basic word order: | VSO, free |
| Morphological type: | fusional |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | split-S |
| Created by: | |
| Jörg Rhiemeier | 2006 |
X-3 is an experimental language by Jörg Rhiemeier. It is a speedtalk-style language with a huge phoneme inventory allowing for very short words.
Phonology
The phoneme inventory of X-3 is very large: it contains 250 consonants, 40 vowels and four tones, which means that there are as many as 40,000 CV syllables.
Vowels
There are 10 basic vowel qualities:
| Front unrounded |
Front rounded |
Back unrounded |
Back rounded | |
| High | i | ü | ï | u |
| Mid | e | ö | ë | o |
| Low | ä | a |
Each of these ten vowels can be short or long and plain or nasalized, making a total of 40 vowels.
Tones
There are four tones in X-3: high, low, rising and falling.
Morphology
Roots
A root consists of a consonant followed by a vowel that is unspecified for length, nasaliazation and tone. There are 2500 possible roots.
