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| name = Danterian | | name = Danterian | ||
| altname = Dãterške, Danterske | | altname = Dãterške, Danterske | ||
| nativename = Даңтэршкэ<br>Даңтэрскэ | | nativename = Даңтэршкэ<br>Даңтэрскэ атӕҗӀұец | ||
| pronunciation = {{IPA|t̬ãtʰɛrʃkʰɛ}}<br>{{IPA|t̬ãtʰɛrskʰɛ atʰəʒd͡ʒyjet͡n̥}} | | pronunciation = {{IPA|t̬ãtʰɛrʃkʰɛ}}<br>{{IPA|t̬ãtʰɛrskʰɛ atʰəʒd͡ʒyjet͡n̥}} | ||
| familycolor = altaic | | familycolor = altaic | ||
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| imagecaption = The official flag of the Scientific Nation of Danterlokhan. | | imagecaption = The official flag of the Scientific Nation of Danterlokhan. | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Dãterške''' (Даңтэршкэ, Даңтэрскэ | '''Dãterške''' (Даңтэршкэ, Даңтэрскэ атӕҗӀұец), also known as '''Danterian''' (English calque) and '''Danterske''', is an [[auxiliary language]] created by [[User:Учхљёная|Elliott Wheeler]] originally designed to suit the needs of the scientific community, as it varies by field. As such, the grammar was loosely modeled after the concepts behind several well-known processes in physical sciences. | ||
A significant portion of its morphology | A significant portion of its morphology and its original purpose, is to be comprised of native terms and according interactions for scientific terms, technical jargon, and computer-language-derivatives. It's also designed to lack multiple synonyms for definitions and has an inherent goal of disambiguation, which together makes it relatively difficult to have a colloquial version of the language completely suited for daily life on Earth. | ||
Due to several drastic changes during the course of its development, along with being | Due to several drastic changes during the course of its development, along with being the first language I created, the language is loosely based off of [[:w:Altaic languages|Proto-Altaic]], various [[:w:Slavic languages|Slavic languages]], [[:w:Proto-Northwest Caucasian language|Proto-Northwest-Caucasian]], a tad bit of German, and my native idiolect of English, but is ultimately [[A priori|a priori]]. | ||
==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
The orthography of Dãterške is a monocase [[:w:Russian orthography|Russian]]-inspired Cyrillic alphabet, and is mostly to entirely phonemic | The orthography of Dãterške is a monocase [[:w:Russian orthography|Russian]]-inspired Cyrillic alphabet, and is mostly to entirely phonemic, in that each letter corresponds directly to a single sound or modification on a sound (such as [◌ʼ], [◌ˤ], [◌̃], etC). It's important to note that, unlike many languages, the characters for these modifications, excluding nasalization (ң) and pʼ'aločka (Ӏ), represent phonemes to themselves and not merely modifiers for a grapheme or phoneme. However, an exception to both prior exceptions stated here is the usage of the digraphs «щӀ» & «җӀ» to represent the consonantal sequences /ʃt͡ʃ/ & /ʒd͡ʒ/, respectfully. | ||
Because of its relatively large phonemic inventory, the language had to use relatively unconventional uses and extensions for the letters in modern Cyrillic. This, combined with its monocase typography & usage of circum-sentence punctuation in a manner standardized from Spanish, makes a uniquely recognizable written language. Listed below are all of the characters in the alphabet and associated values in other systems, in no particular order due to the lack of any non-arbitrary glyph-order for the language, where the Latin letters in parentheses represent the Danterian transliteration specifically, in contrast to the ISO 9 equivalent(s). | Because of its relatively large phonemic inventory, the language had to use relatively unconventional uses and extensions for the letters in modern Cyrillic. This, combined with its monocase typography & usage of circum-sentence punctuation in a manner standardized from Spanish, makes a uniquely recognizable written language. Listed below are all of the characters in the alphabet and associated values in other systems, in no particular order due to the lack of any non-arbitrary glyph-order for the language, where the Latin letters in parentheses represent the Danterian transliteration specifically, in contrast to the ISO 9 equivalent(s). | ||
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! Letter Name | ! Letter Name | ||
! IPA Letter Name | ! IPA Letter Name | ||
! [[:w:ISO 9| | ! [[:w:ISO 9|ISO-9 (and language-specific) Latin transliteration]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Ӏ | | Ӏ | ||
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! {{small|[[:w:voicelessness|voiceless]]}} | ! {{small|[[:w:voicelessness|voiceless]]}} | ||
| {{IPA|f}} (ф) | | {{IPA|f}} (ф) | ||
| {{IPA|s}}<small><ref name=a group=note> | | {{IPA|s}}<small><ref name=a group=note>No [[:w:Sibilant|sibilants]] proper naturally occur in this language's phonology.</ref></small> (с) | ||
| {{IPA|sˤ~z̥}}<small><ref name=a group=note /></small> (ԇ) | | {{IPA|sˤ~z̥}}<small><ref name=a group=note /></small> (ԇ) | ||
| {{IPA|ʃ}} (ш) | | {{IPA|ʃ}} (ш) | ||
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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
Another relatively unique feature of the language is that it has no phonemic stress, intonation, or even syllable-boundaries, thus forcing both the speaker & listener | Another relatively unique feature of the language is that it has no consistent phonemic stress, intonation, or even syllable-boundaries, thus forcing both the speaker & listener to analyze the spoken word as a sequence of sounds. However, in casual speech, primary stress and/or high-tone usually occurs in a somewhat similar manner to English, and is often placed on the initial syllable of a word, and secondary stress and/or mid-tone is often [[:w:trochee|trochaic]] (placed in repeating patterns of stressed-unstressed) from the beginning of the word. An exception to the rule of casual stress would be a syllable containing a lengthened or ава (rough) vowel, which is stressed by default. | ||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
'''Syllable Structure:''' (W/N)(C)<sup>6</sup>(W)<sup>2</sup>V/-P<sup>2</sup>(W)<sup>2</sup>(C)<sup>4</sup>(W/N)<br> | '''Syllable Structure:''' (W/N)(C)<sup>6</sup>(W)<sup>2</sup>V/-P<sup>2</sup>(W)<sup>2</sup>(C)<sup>4</sup>(W/N)<br> | ||
Where: | Where: | ||
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#Complex consonant clusters with non-plosives >C<sup>6</sup> become syllabic. | #Complex consonant clusters with non-plosives >C<sup>6</sup> become syllabic. | ||
#/j/, /w/, /ʕ/, /r/, /rʲ/, /r̃/, /l/, /ʎ/, /l̃/, /ʎ̃/, /ʡ/ become devoiced after Aspirated Stops and assimilate with the plosive. | #/j/, /w/, /ʕ/, /r/, /rʲ/, /r̃/, /l/, /ʎ/, /l̃/, /ʎ̃/, /ʡ/ become devoiced after Aspirated Stops and assimilate with the plosive. | ||
# | #Fortis and lenis equivalents of a given consonant cannot be adjacent unless at a syllable boundary. | ||
#/t͡n̥l/ cannot occur. | #/t͡n̥l/ cannot occur. | ||
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===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
Due to the language being a semi-[[:w:Agglutinative languages|agglutinative]] language, little | Due to the language being a semi-[[:w:Agglutinative languages|agglutinative]] language, little purely morphophonological processes take place other than the aforementioned vowel mutation. Because of this process alone, one could either analyze the language’s morphological typology as an agglutinative language with ablauting morphemes, or as a minor fusional language without sandhi. Interestingly, one could argue that there is a complex system of vowel harmony underlying every word (I myself have seen some convincing evidence), but if existing, such was unintentional and has yet to be fully decoded. | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
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==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||
The constituent order of the language is relatively straightforward, being almost exclusively SOV in almost all instances. Other | The constituent order of the language is relatively straightforward, being almost exclusively SOV in almost all instances. Other word-orders (commonly SVO) may be used occasionally for poetic effect, but such must be clearly marked with affices denoting their grammatical role, often merely to avoid ambiguity. | ||
===Noun phrase=== | ===Noun phrase=== | ||