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!Close | !Close | ||
|i y || || || || u | |i* y* || || || || u* | ||
|- | |- | ||
! | ! | ||
| || i* y* || || u* | | || i** y** || || u** | ||
|- | |- | ||
!Close-Mid | !Close-Mid | ||
|e ø || || || || o | |e* ø* || || || || o* | ||
|- | |- | ||
! | ! | ||
| || || e** | | || || e*** | ||
|- | |- | ||
!Open-Mid | !Open-Mid | ||
|e* ø* || || || || o* | |e** ø** || || || || o** | ||
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! | ! | ||
|a* | |a** | ||
|- | |- | ||
!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 = | ||
fh | fh | ||
Revision as of 15:40, 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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