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[mvtj-yan]

Consonants

Plosives

p p̀ ṕ p̌ b b̗ b̖ b̭ t t̗ t̖ ṱ d d̗ d̖ ḓ c c̀ ć č g g̀ ǵ ǧ k k̗ k̖ k̭

Fricatives

f f̗ f̖ f̭ v v̀ v́ v̌ s s̀ ś š z z̀ ź ž ṣ ṣ̀ ṣ́ ṣ̌ ẓ ẓ̀ ẓ́ ẓ̌ h h̤ ẖ

nasals

m m̀ ḿ m̌ n ǹ ń ň ṇ ṇ̀ ṇ́ ṇ̌ n̤ ǹ̤ ń̤ ň̤

Liquids

w ẁ ẃ w̌ l l̗ l̖ ḽ r r̀ ŕ ř y ỳ ý y̌

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Technically there are only twenty consonants in this list. but the aspirated ones bulk up those numbers.

the way it works is that the diacritic indicates whether to aspirate before, after, or on both sides of the consonant.

Graves: Pre-aspirated.

Acutes: plain-aspirated.

Carons: circum-aspirated.

easy really.

/c/ is the palatal stop while /g/ is the voiced variant.

/ṣ/ is the palato-alveolar fricative while /ẓ/ is the voiced equivalent. (I promise, the dot went right under the Z in my word doc. I don't know what to say.)

/ṇ/ is the palatal nasal.

/n̤/ is the velar nasal.

/h h̤/ and /ẖ/ are glottal fricatives and are considered special cases. in which they are marked as short, long, and overlong.

the rest can more-or-less be read and pronounced as in english.

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Consonants Idea 1

consonants in Yan can be aspirated before, after, or on both sides. this is marked with a diacritic above or below said consonant. this is in conjunction with consonants being voiced or unvoiced.

for example:

plain: p b

pre-aspirated: p̀ b̗

post-aspirated: ṕ b̖

circum-aspirated: p̌ b̭

personally, it feels right for this language.

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1 Personal thoughts

Some clarification. I am nervous about this side-project because, up to this point, the previous conlangs I did from Arknights were for countries with, as far as I can tell, no obvious real world connections to existing countries. Yan is obviously based on China, so I felt like making a conlang for it and the rest of the countries would be me saying something about them.

I'm not. yet the idea came to me wondering about what it would be like for Chinese in all its variants to be more synthetic and have an actual morphology. So now, I decided to throw caution to the wind and have fun like I should.

The main thing I want to play around with is the idea of each grammatical feature having a synthetic and analytic governance. like having the plural be either a suffix on the noun or a particle at the end of a noun phrase.

That's all I really got so far, the goals in my other post are tentative at best. but they should make for good starting points.

again I hope to have fun with this conlang. and ideally, I hope to not step on anyones toes with what I come up with. but I will not let my anxiety cripple my creativity. if any trouble does come up, I can just deal with it. hopefully.

Thanks for reading. till next time... ;).

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Consonants Ideas 1

Introduction

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Phonology

Consonants

Morphology

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Derivational Morphology

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Syntax

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Semantic Fields and Pragmatics

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Sample Texts

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Lexicon

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[mvtj-yan]

Yan Goals

End Goal

An artistic fictional language for fun, to play around with linguistic ideas, and for potential use in fiction.

Vague Descriptors

agglutinating and isolating.

Not China.

Blocky text.

family is everything.

class hierarchy.

Naturalism

6/10

Complexity

above medium complexity.

linguistic features have both agglutinative affixes and isolating particles for the same feature.

Derivation

fairly regular.

some irregularities.

Features

Phonology

Palatal-alveolar consonants.

aspiration.

tones.

Grammar

Formal register with only particles.

informal register with only affixes.

classifier particles/classifier agreement.

noun incorporation.

grammatical number marking.

pronoun agreement.

Culture

Different types of horns

martial arts terms

Orthography

Featural

syllabic

squares

90-degree angles

horizontal lines

vertical lines

perpendicular lines