Kingspeech
| Kingspeech (La E) | |
|---|---|
| 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
The phonology of Kingspeech is fairly simple, consisting of six consonants and five vowels. The vowels may be low tone (unmarked) or high tone (acute accent).
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | ||||||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | s | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | l | |||||||||||||||
| Long Vowels | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Mid | Back | ||||||||||||||
| High | i | u | ||||||||||||||
| Mid | e | o | ||||||||||||||
| Low | a | |||||||||||||||
| Long Vowels | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Mid | Back | ||||||||||||||
| High | i˥ | u˥ | ||||||||||||||
| Mid | e˥ | o˥ | ||||||||||||||
| Low | a˥ | |||||||||||||||
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
