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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Name=== | ===Name=== | ||
Various different names have existed at some point or another for the language. A reference from 1544 in a mercantile letter from the Ottoman empire mentioning a most difficult and strange tongue only known as '' | Various different names have existed at some point or another for the language. A reference from 1544 in a mercantile letter from the Ottoman empire mentioning a most difficult and strange tongue only known as ''kecice'' being spoken among the sandalwood-bearing islands of the far seas probably constitutes the first reference to Caeryn. In the 18th century, noted adventurer-linguist-archæologist-spiritualist Taavi Marsfeld wrote a short description of the language and famously introduced it to the Fartravellers' Society in London with the following passage: | ||
:{{cardo|This illustrious Qaerysh tungue, more befuddling than the Caucasic, more sweet than Finnish morphology, and yet more rewarding than a cat's love, is truly a miracle to behold! A purity greater than Greek, a vigour outdoing the Germanic, a spiciness beyond the Zend, yet as wildly spiritual as the Semitic idiom.}} | :{{cardo|This illustrious Qaerysh tungue, more befuddling than the Caucasic, more sweet than Finnish morphology, and yet more rewarding than a cat's love, is truly a miracle to behold! A purity greater than Greek, a vigour outdoing the Germanic, a spiciness beyond the Zend, yet as wildly spiritual as the Semitic idiom.}} | ||
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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
The incredibly sparse consonantal system includes a few uvular consonants, one alveolar sibilant, a voiced retroflex and two clicks. | The incredibly sparse consonantal system includes a few uvular consonants, one alveolar sibilant, a voiced retroflex and two clicks. | ||
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! colspan="2" | Click | ! colspan="2" | Click | ||
| | | {{grapheme|v}} /ʘ/ | ||
| | | {{grapheme|n}} /ǀ/ | ||
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| | | {{grapheme|c}}, {{grapheme|q}} /q/ | ||
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! colspan="2" | Fricative | ! colspan="2" | Fricative | ||
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| | | {{grapheme|t}} /θ/, {{grapheme|s}} /s/ | ||
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| | | {{grapheme|r}} /ʐ/ | ||
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| | | {{grapheme|h}} /χ/ | ||
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| | | {{grapheme|nn}} /ɴ/ | ||
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! colspan="2" | Approximant | ! colspan="2" | Approximant | ||
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| | | {{grapheme|y}} /j/ | ||
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| | | {{grapheme|l}} /ʟ/ | ||
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===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
<!-- Explain the consonant clusters and vowel clusters that are permissible for use in the language. For example, "st" is an allowed consonant cluster in English while onset "ng" isn't. --> | <!-- Explain the consonant clusters and vowel clusters that are permissible for use in the language. For example, "st" is an allowed consonant cluster in English while onset "ng" isn't. --> | ||
Vowels either expand or contract wildly depending on their word surroundings | |||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||