Rinap

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Background

Rinap (Kni Nape Rinhikhyr) was created for the fantasy world of Grundet in the beginning of 2013, and it was intended to be the main language of the seventh era Eastern Empire with over 10 million native speakers. The language belongs to Herookian language family, but at the moment, it is the only one completed. The language itself suffered a decline during fifth and sixth era, but was soon revived and partly reconstructed based on ancient texts. The old Doslox writing system was also returned into use. Since the new language is a bit clumsy and spoken over a wide region, many different dialects appeared.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m			n		ɲ
Plosive	p b			t d			k g
Fricative		f v	θ ð	z s	ʃ ʒ		x	χ	h
Affricate				ts			kx
Approximant						j
Trill				r
Lateral app.				l

Phoneme /ɲɑ/ appears in the beginning of past participles such as 'nabeat' meaning 'gone'. 'Z' is often /ʒ/ in the beginning of words, but also if preceeded by /ɲɑ/. 'S' preceeding a consonant is often pronounced as /ʃ/. 'J' used at the end of a word is pronounced as /i/.

'H' is most often pronounced as /χ/, but also appears /x/ at the end of words, and sometimes /h/ before vowels in the beginning of words. 'H' is also pronounced as /f/ when preceeded by a non-sibilant frigative (such as /χ/ and /θ/) plus vowel: 'dohuho' becomes /doχu:fo/ (meaning 'many sheep').

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i y	u
Open-mid	ɛ œ	ɔ
Near-open	æ
Open		ɑ

In the beginning of words, /y/ and /i/ become /jʷ/ and /j/.

Orthography

The Doslox has a grapheme order based on an old story: [1]

• A - /ɑ/
• K - /k/
• P - /p/
• D - /d/
• E - /ɛ/
• B - /b/
• H - /χ/, /x/ or /h/
• NI - /ni/ 'called'-symbol in names, e.g. 'Hithul ni-Xathen' means 'Hithul called-bear'
• KH - /kχ/
• NA - /ɲa/ Past participle prefix
• V - /v/
• F - /f/
• D - /d/
• M - /m/
• Ö - /œ/
• O - /ɔ/
• HO - /χɔ/
• L - /l/
• I - /i/
• W - /w/
• Y - /y/
• ZO - /ʒɔ/ Question-prefix
• R - /r/
• T - /t/
• TH - /θ/
• X - /ks/
• G - /g/
• Z - /z/ or /ʒ/
• S - /s/ or /ʃ/
• PH - /ph/
• Ä - /æ/
• J - /j/
• N - /n/
• HI - /hi/ Rarely used, most often for 'as'
• U - /u/