Parseltongue
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| Parseltongue-inspired | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | n.a. |
| Timeline and Universe: | Harry Potter world |
| Species: | Ophidic (snakes and snake-likes) |
| Spoken: | All over the HP world |
| Total speakers: | unknown |
| Writing system: | n.a. |
| Genealogy: | Isolate |
| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | Inflecting |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Accusative |
| Basic word order: | SOV |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Eugene Oh |
| Created: | July 2005 |
Parseltongue is a fictional language spoken by snakes in the Harry Potter series of novels (author: J. K. Rowling), whose known human speakers include the Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter. This language has, however, not been publicly described by Rowling and has no known form.
The Parseltongue referred to below in this article refers to Parseltongue-inspired, a hypothetical form of the abovementioned snake-speak. Because the tongue has no written form, the text samples appearing hereafter are in romanised form.
Phonology
Being a language spoken by snakes (and the like), Parseltongue is rich in sibilants and other fricatives.
| Consonants | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | h | ||||||
| Affricate | ts | dz | ||||||||
| Approximants | ʍ | w | ||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | |||||||||
