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Evansk has 23 consonant phonemes. The consonant inventory is roughly equivalent to that of modern German. | |||
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The language lacks any real digraphs. Doubled consonants are used to make the preceding vowel short, where it can be (''sprikku'' "to speak" {{IPA|'sprɪ.ku}}); otherwise, a vowel followed by more than one consonant is always short (''sprikst'' "you speak" {{IPA|sprɪkst}}). | |||
Revision as of 01:22, 9 November 2012
Evansk (also known as Evvaansk or Evvaanskozsprakk) is a posteriori conlang. It is based primarily off of Old English and Proto-Germanic, with four cases and extensive verb conjugation. Evansk can be written using the Latin alphabet, or using quikscript. It contains the additional letters: Š/š, Ž/ž, and Č/č.
Pronunciation
Evansk has 23 consonant phonemes. The consonant inventory is roughly equivalent to that of modern German.
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
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| Plosive | p b | t d | k ɡ | |||||
| Affricate | pf | ʦ | ʧ | |||||
| Fricative | f v | s z | ʃ ʒ | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Approximant | l | j | ||||||
| Rhotic | r |
The language lacks any real digraphs. Doubled consonants are used to make the preceding vowel short, where it can be (sprikku "to speak" 'sprɪ.ku); otherwise, a vowel followed by more than one consonant is always short (sprikst "you speak" sprɪkst).
