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|valign="top"|Spoken in:
|valign="top"|Spoken in:
||(country) {{ #if:  | () | {{ #if:  | () }} }}
||The Imperium (Vilani settlements)
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|-
|valign="top"|Timeline/Universe:
|valign="top"|Timeline/Universe:
||(universe)
||Traveller RPG (non-canon)
|-
|-
|valign="top"|Total speakers:
|valign="top"|Total speakers:
||(number of speakers)
||
|-
|-
|valign="top"|Genealogical classification:
|valign="top"|Genealogical classification:
||(Family)
|| Dirmani
:(Branch)
: Kalaan
::(Subbranch)
:: '''Vilani'''
:::{{#if:  ||{{#if: dialect english ||{{#if: dialect English ||'''}}}} }}(Language){{#if:  ||{{#if: dialect english ||{{#if: dialect English ||'''}}}} }}
{{#if:  |::::'''  ('''')''' | {{#if:  | '''''' | {{#if:  | '''''' | }} }} }}
|-
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|valign="top"|[[Basic word order]]:
|valign="top"|[[Basic word order]]:
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|| 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="#CCCCCC" align="center" |'''Created by:'''
|colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFFFEE" align="center" |'''Created by:'''
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||author ||date
||Kenji Schwarz ||1998
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===Vowels===
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! &nbsp;
! Front
! Central
! Back
|-
! Close
| i, i: <i, ii>
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| u, u: <u, uu>
|-
! Mid
| e
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
|-
! Open
| &nbsp;
| a, a: <a, aa>
| &nbsp;
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Revision as of 12:53, 8 November 2011

Vilani
Spoken in: The Imperium (Vilani settlements)
Timeline/Universe: Traveller RPG (non-canon)
Total speakers:
Genealogical classification: Dirmani
Kalaan
Vilani
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>