Terce/Notie
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| [?] Notie Periont's language | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | [?] /ˈnoti/ /ˈpɛriənts ˈlæŋɡwədʒ/ |
| Timeline and Universe: | Terce 4th century BCE |
| Species: | Almators |
| Spoken: | Southern Land |
| Total speakers: | ~150-200 |
| Writing system: | none (Periont's script used) |
| Genealogy: | Language isolate |
| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | Isolating |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Ergative |
| Basic word order: | [?] |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Muke Tever |
| Created: | 2010 |
Periont's language (Elladic: Notie "Southern") was a language spoken in the Southern Land in the 4th century BCE. It was primarily an unwritten language, and the only surviving native record of the language was a book by a traveler named Periont. It has not been shown to be related to any surviving language.
Phonology
Distinctive phonological features include stops at eight places of articulation, multiple rhotics and an absence of fricatives. There is also an absence of voicing contrasts; the oral-nasal contrast is more salient.
| Consonants | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Dental Laminal |
Alveolar Apical |
Post-alveolar Laminal |
Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
| Nasal | m | n̪ | n | n̠ | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | p | t̪ | t | t̠ | ʈ | c | k | ʔ | |
| Approximants | w | ||||||||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||||||
| Trill | r | ʀ | |||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l̪ | ɭ | |||||||
The vowel system, by comparison, is relatively simple, consisting of the basic five vowels; three of them have length contrasts.
| Vowels | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Near-front | Central | Back | |
| High | i(ː) | u(ː) | ||
| High-mid | e | o | ||
| Low | a(ː) | |||
The syllable structure is C(:)VN.
