Íscégon
| Íscégon | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | [[Help:IPA|ˈkeːreʃuː iːsˈkeːguneːʋu]] |
| Created by | Lili21 |
| Date | Mar 2017 |
| Setting | Calémere |
| Ethnicity | Iscegons |
| Extinct | ca. 700 |
Evandorian languages
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The Íscégon language, natively céresiú íscégunévu [ˈkeːreʃuː iːsˈkeːguneːʋu], is an Evandorian language, the main Classical language in the Western civilizations of Calémere.
First spoken in central Évandor, in present-day Northern Ceria, where it developed from Proto-Common Evandorian, it was the language spread across most of the continent by the ancient Íscégon Empire; for a long time after imperial times it still was the main language of culture of the whole continent and nowadays it still has - along with ancient Nivarese, the language of ancient Nivaren - an important role in learned terminology in all Evandorian civilizations and, through influence of Cerian, a descendant of Íscégon which has become through colonization the lingua franca in most of Calémere, in most languages of the planet.
As a Central Evandorian language, Íscégon shares many features with Ancient Quanarian (like definiteness of nouns expressed in verbs, only found in Central Evandorian and in Auralic (Southern)) as well as with most other languages of the family (except for the most divergent ones like Holenagic and to a lesser extent the Northern Evandorian languages), like the two-gender system, the lack of verbs declining for person, and SVO word order. However, uniquely among Central Evandorian languages - but like most other languages in the family - it has lost the vowel harmony characteristic of Proto-Evandorian, in the Íscégon case for a large number of vowel changes, mergers, and insertions that disrupted the original vowel harmony (c.f. PEv *ofektem "tree" > Ísc. útin; PEv *ŋɨpɨrz "foot" > Ísc. núbres).
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
| → PoA ↓ Manner |
Labial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | m | n | |||||
| Plosives | p b | t d | k g | q | |||
| Fricatives | f | s | h | ||||
| Approximants | ʋ | j | |||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Lateral | l |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Low | a aː |