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The setting is a Venus with a thinner crust which enables convection of heat within the planet's core and, despite Venus' slower rotation, the subsequent generation of a magnetic field sufficient to prevent the loss of the planet's oceans. | The setting is a Venus with a thinner crust which enables convection of heat within the planet's core and, despite Venus' slower rotation, the subsequent generation of a magnetic field sufficient to prevent the loss of the planet's oceans. | ||
Common Venerian (ComVen: | Common Venerian (ComVen: Lanakwa) is the predominant lingua franca spoken on Venus (ComVen: Lhinla). It originated from the environs of the mercantile city of Suliriyal on the continent of Yehadramit. | ||
===Inspirations=== | ===Inspirations=== |
Revision as of 06:15, 6 February 2022
Introduction
Goals
To create an aesthetically pleasing, yet easily pronounceable, language for the setting of a habitable alternative Venus.
Setting
The setting is a Venus with a thinner crust which enables convection of heat within the planet's core and, despite Venus' slower rotation, the subsequent generation of a magnetic field sufficient to prevent the loss of the planet's oceans.
Common Venerian (ComVen: Lanakwa) is the predominant lingua franca spoken on Venus (ComVen: Lhinla). It originated from the environs of the mercantile city of Suliriyal on the continent of Yehadramit.
Inspirations
The phonology takes inspiration from that of Suzette Haden Elgin's conlang, Láadan, in that the primary opposition in obstruents is voiced plosives vs voiceless fricatives.
Phonology
Orthography
Native Script | Practical Orthography | IPA |
⟨o⟩ | ⟨p⟩ | /p/ |
⟨ɵ⟩ | ⟨ph⟩ | /f/ |
⟨c⟩ | ⟨b⟩ | /b/ |
⟨ɔ⟩ | ⟨m⟩ | /m/ |
⟨s⟩ | ⟨w⟩ | /w/ |
⟨v⟩ | ⟨t⟩ | /t/ |
⟨ʌ⟩ | ⟨th⟩ | /θ/ |
⟨w⟩ | ⟨d⟩ | /d/ |
⟨ʍ⟩ | ⟨n⟩ | /n/ |
⟨x⟩ | ⟨s⟩ | /s/ |
⟨ɴ⟩ | ⟨r⟩ | /ɹ/ |
⟨ɛ⟩ | ⟨x⟩ | /ɬ/ |
⟨ɜ⟩ | ⟨l⟩ | /l/ |
⟨n⟩ | ⟨k⟩ | /k/ |
⟨u⟩ | ⟨kh⟩ | /x/ |
⟨m⟩ | ⟨ɡ⟩ | /ɡ/ |
⟨ɯ⟩ | ⟨q⟩ | /ŋ/ |
⟨ʜ⟩ | ⟨y⟩ | /j/ |
⟨z⟩ | ⟨h⟩ | /h/ |
Consonants
Labial | Central Coronal | Lateral Coronal | Dorsal | Glottal | |
Plosive | |||||
-voiceless | /p/ | /t/ | /k/ | ||
-voiced | /b/ | /d/ | /ɡ/ | ||
Fricative | |||||
-sibilant | /s/ | /ɬ/ | |||
-spirant | /f/ | /θ/ | /x/ | ||
-aspirate | /h/ | ||||
Sonorant | |||||
-nasal | /m/ | /n/ | /ŋ/ | ||
-lateral | /l/ | ||||
Approximant | |||||
-rhotic | /ɹ/ | ||||
-semivowel | /w/ | /j/ |