Calcoradish
Calcoradish is a constructed language created in Japan, and the conlanger is a native speaker of Japanese. This language is called "Calcoradetâr[kalkoradeta:r]" in Calcoradish.
Phonology
Consonants
Calcoradish has about twenty consonants.
- p [p]
- b [b]
- c [k](This sound is always spelled "c". "k" is never used.)
- g [g]
- t [t]
- d [d]
- s [s]
- z [z]
- f [f]
- v [v]
- ch [x]
- gh [ɣ]
- th [θ]
- dh [ð]
- h [h]
- n [n]
- m [m]
- r [r]
- l [l]
- ts [ts]
Vowel
Calcoradish has nine vowels. The vowel length is distinctive. But /ɔ/ always appear as a long vowel. And the distinction between the long vowel /i:/ and /e:/ is not clear in many dialect.
There is /i/, /e/, /ε/, /y/, /œ/, /u/, /o/, /ɔ/, /a/.
Each vowel is spelled as i, e, ai, y, oe, u, o, au, a. Long vowel is spelled with circumflex(For example, the spell "â" is pronounced [a:]).
Some combination of two or three vowel are pronounced as diphthong. Diphthongs are spelled with diaeresis(trema), like French spelling(For example "oï", "oë" etc.).
There is /εi/(eï, aï, aiï), /œi/(oeï), /yi/(yï),/ɔi/(oï), /ui/(uï), /iεi/(ieï, iaï, iaiï), /iœi/(ioeï), /aε/(aë), /ɔε/(oë), /uε/(uë).