Parthavan language

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Parthavun erciğ
Pronounced: /parθaβ ɛrtʃɪɣ
Timeline and Universe: Alamanti
Species: Human
Spoken: Parthava, Parizhia, Seleyizhe, Dorcindi
Total speakers: 40 million
Writing system: Parthavan script
Genealogy: Ayartaic
Central Aghantian
 Parthavan
Parthavan
Typology
Morphological type: Agglutinative
Morphosyntactic alignment: Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order: SOV
Credits
Creator: Nadeem Ahmad
Created: September 2006

Parthavan is a language that is spoken throughout much of central Aghantia. It is very closely related to Armavi

Distribution

Parthavan is spoken mainly in the central Aghantian countries. There is also an area in Parizhia where it is spoken.

Its largest concentration of speakers is in Parthava.

Phonology

Vowels

Parthavan has 7 vowels, which are arranged into three classes for vowel harmony:


Front e (IPA: ɛ) ö (IPA: œ) ü (IPA: ʏ)
Back a (IPA: a) o (IPA: o) u (IPA: u)
Neutral i (IPA: ɪ)

A word can only contain either front vowels or back vowels (and the neutral vowel i). For words with only i, the word is regarded as front.

If a word contains both back and front vowels (in some foreign words), vowel harmony acts on with the last vowel, that is to say that when adding suffixes, if the word is mixed, look at the last vowel as an indicator.

Consonants

Parthavan also has the following consonants:


Consonants
Bilabial Labiod. Dental Alveolar Post-alv. Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m (m) n (n) ŋ (n)
Plosive p (p) b (b) t (t) d (d) k (k) g (g) q (q)
Fricative ɸ (f) β (v) θ (ť) ð (ď) s (s) z (z) ʃ (ş) ʒ (ž) x (x) ɣ (ğ) h (h)
Affricate ts (ts)
Approximants j (y)
Trill r (r)
Lateral Fricative ɬ (l)