Nother/Naryan
| Naryan | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | /ˈnæriən/ |
| Timeline and Universe: | Nother |
| Species: | demihumans |
| Spoken: | Iisera possibly 29th century AD |
| Total speakers: | [No data] |
| Writing system: | [No data] |
| Genealogy: | Unknown/Isolate |
| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | [No data] |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | [No data] |
| Basic word order: | [No data] |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Muke Tever | ✎ |
| Created: | 2002–2003 |
Naryan is the name given to the language of Iisera, a central island of a planet distant from Earth . Only a few vocabulary terms outside of the numbers 1-10 are attested.
Glossary
- ai, an exclamation.
- Iisera, a place name.
- Kaido, a male's name.
- kino, a rough sort of beige cloth.
- Maro, a male's name.
- Nyaiya, a female's nickname.
- rak'aisa, a pungent red vegetable stew.
- sera, ritual integrity.
- serai, place of sera.
Numbers
| one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | nine | ten |
| k'isi | mina | tainyoa | poagii | tap'u | k'oanea | neap'e | nyairii | p'inea | tudairii |
|---|
Pronunciation
In the recovered description, the apostrophes are said to represent glottalization. Ai, ii, ea, oa are falling diphthongs, where -i and -a are pronounced /ɨ̯/ and /ə̯/, respectively. In some pronunciations these diphthongs are unbroken long vowels (thus ā for ai).
Based on Naryan interpretations of foreign words, Naryan speakers are known to lack /l/ and tend to hear it as their /r/. Foreign consonant clusters are broken up with an epenthetic /o/ or /u/, and the same vowels may be used to keep a consonant from ending a syllable—or the consonant may be deleted. (But the sequence k'h and final n appear to be licit.) The only fricatives appear to be /s/ and possibly /f/; /v/ is heard as /b/, and /θ/ as /s/ or a dental stop. Wu is a licit syllable; it's uncertain if yi is likewise.
