Calcoradish

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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).