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|colspan="2" bgcolor="# | |colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFFFEE" align="center" |'''''Vilani''''' | ||
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|valign="top"|Spoken in: | |valign="top"|Spoken in: | ||
||( | ||The Imperium (Vilani settlements) | ||
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|valign="top"|Timeline/Universe: | |valign="top"|Timeline/Universe: | ||
||( | ||Traveller RPG (non-canon) | ||
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|valign="top"|Total speakers: | |valign="top"|Total speakers: | ||
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|valign="top"|Genealogical classification: | |valign="top"|Genealogical classification: | ||
|| | || Dirmani | ||
: | : Kalaan | ||
:: | :: '''Vilani''' | ||
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|valign="top"|[[Basic word order]]: | |valign="top"|[[Basic word order]]: | ||
|| | || VSO | ||
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|valign="top"|[[Morphological type]]: | |valign="top"|[[Morphological type]]: | ||
|| | || agglutinating | ||
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|valign="top"|[[Morphosyntactic alignment]]: | |valign="top"|[[Morphosyntactic alignment]]: | ||
|| | || ergative | ||
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|colspan="2" bgcolor="# | |colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFFFEE" align="center" |'''Created by:''' | ||
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|| | ||Kenji Schwarz ||1998 | ||
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===Vowels=== | |||
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! | |||
! Front | |||
! Central | |||
! Back | |||
|- | |||
! Close | |||
| i, i: <i, ii> | |||
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| u, u: <u, uu> | |||
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! Mid | |||
| e | |||
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|- | |||
! Open | |||
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| a, a: <a, aa> | |||
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Revision as of 13:53, 8 November 2011
| Vilani | |
| Spoken in: | The Imperium (Vilani settlements) |
| Timeline/Universe: | Traveller RPG (non-canon) |
| Total speakers: | |
| Genealogical classification: | Dirmani
|
| Basic word order: | VSO |
| Morphological type: | agglutinating |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | ergative |
| Created by: | |
| Kenji Schwarz | 1998 |
The Vilani language is the language of the Vilani, one of the major spacefaring civilizations of the Traveller RPG universe. The Vilani are humans; they descend from human beings who were transported to another planet by aliens in prehistoric times.
The Traveller RPG handbooks contain some material (mostly vocabulary) on the language on which Kenji Schwarz built the language described here.
Phonology
Consonants
The Vilani consonant inventory is quite small with only 13 phonemes; its most unusual trait is certainly the lack of the otherwise very common phoneme /t/.
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | Voiceless | p | k | ||
| Voiced | b | d | g | ||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | s | ʂ <sh> | x <kh> | |
| Voiced | z | ||||
| Nasals | m | n | |||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i, i: <i, ii> | u, u: <u, uu> | |
| Mid | e | ||
| Open | a, a: <a, aa> |
