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This language was originally called Benocian and was Romance- and Ashkenazi Hebrew-inspired, and it had a strong Portuguese flavor. Recently I decided to rework it, basing the aesthetic more on Breton. | This language was originally called Benocian and was Romance- and Ashkenazi Hebrew-inspired, and it had a strong Portuguese flavor. Recently I decided to rework it, basing the aesthetic more on Breton. | ||
==Ideas== | |||
*Breton-ish but no grammatical mutations | |||
*/q/ lenites intervocallically to /ʟ/ | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
Revision as of 05:05, 5 February 2018
Qazhrian (/kɑːʒriən/ (K)AHZH-ree-uhn; natively: brits Qazhrem /brits ˈqaʒrem/) is a Talmic language spoken in Qazhra (from Thensarian Ȝactragē), a Talman country. It is descended from Thensarian.
External history
This language was originally called Benocian and was Romance- and Ashkenazi Hebrew-inspired, and it had a strong Portuguese flavor. Recently I decided to rework it, basing the aesthetic more on Breton.
Ideas
- Breton-ish but no grammatical mutations
- /q/ lenites intervocallically to /ʟ/
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | gn /ɲ/ | ng /ŋ/ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | k /k/ | kw /kʷ/ | q /q/ | ||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | gw /gʷ/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f /f/ | s /s/ | ch /ʃ/ | c'h /x/ | ħ /χ/ | h /h/ | |
| voiced | v /v/ | z /z/ | zh /ʒ/ | gh /g'h/ | ||||
| Liquid | r /r/ | l /ʟ/ | ||||||
| Approximant | y, lh /j/ | w /w/ | ||||||
p, f are found in loanwords from Clofabic and Windermere.
Vowels
No nasal vowels