Kingspeech
Kingspeech (La E) | |
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Pronounced: | [la e] |
Timeline and Universe: | Semiramis Universe, Post-Catastrophe |
Species: | Post-Catastrophe Hominid |
Spoken: | Phazum (planet) |
Total speakers: | c. 500 in Phazum |
Writing system: | Unknown |
Genealogy: | Isolate |
Typology: | |
Morphology: | Isolating |
Morphosyntax: | Accusative |
Word order: | SVO |
Credits | |
Creator: | Linguarum Magister |
Created: | 2012 |
Kingspeech (La E) is the proto-language (in the sense of early, rather than ancestral) of the re-uplifted humans of the planet Phazum. As of this date, the language skills are small but increasing.
Phonology
Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
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Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | ||||||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | t | k | |||||||||||||
Plosive | s | |||||||||||||||
Fricative | l |
Vowels | ||||||||||
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Front | Central | Back | ||||||||
High | i | u | ||||||||
Low | a |
Long Vowels | ||||||||||||||||
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A | I | U | ||||||||||||||
A | a: | ja | wa | |||||||||||||
I | aj | i: | wi | |||||||||||||
U | aw | ju | u: |
Vocabulary
Kingsmen/Phazum Speech Substantives (Class 1) I/me – a You – i Someone/Person – u People – e Relational Substantives (Class 2) Something/Thing – ú Body – á Kind – é Part - í Determiners (Class 3) This – sá Same – sí Other – sú Quantifiers (Class 4) One – ma Two – mi Some – mu All – me Many/Much – mo Evaluators (Class 5) Good - tá Bad – tí Descriptors (Class 6) Big – pá Small – pí Mental/Experiential Predicates (Class 7) Think – pa Know – pi Want – pu Feel – pe See – po Hear – pá Speech (Class 8) Say – la Word – li True – lu Actions and Events (Class 9) Do – sa Happen – si Move – su Existence and Possession (Class 10) There Is/Exist – má Have – mí Life and Death (Class 11) Live – lá Die – lí Time (Class 12) Time – ta Now – ta ni Before – ta nu After – ta ne A long time – ta no A short time – ta ná For some time – ta nú Moment – ta né Space (Class 13) Where/Place – na Here – (na) ni Above – (na) nu Below – (na) ne Far – (na) no Near – (na) ná Side – (na) ní Inside – (na) nú Touch (Contact) – né Logical Concepts (Class 14) Not – ka Maybe – ki Can – ku Because – ke If – ki Intensifier, Augmentor (Class 15) Very – tú More – tó Similarity (Class 16) Like/Way - pú áéíóú