User:Juhhmi/Lordlang

Lordlang is a polysynthetic language used by the six Ancient Elemental Lords. They lack(ed) all ways for biological messaging (no mouth, nose, ears or eyes) and use(d) telepathic communication instead. The emotional part of their communicational transmissions as well as their use of elemental magic affect their skin color (different shades of gray from white to black), and it has been described as their way of raising voice or shouting intensively. Lords rarely use the native language of a listener as it requires a greater degree of mind-penetration and mental manipulation, which is impossible in common, non-magical environments, and they resort to simpler distortions in the auditory areas of a brain.

Parameters

The actual language was used telepathically so speaking of phonology is in vain. Originally, a hexagon script system was constructed to help humans focus on what they are receiving and to create a way of documenting and sharing messages. According to the archives on the Isle of Fire, if one is not familiar with the system, their brain will construct a personal experience, which is hard to grasp and remember. The following romanization was developed later.

The syllabary parameters are classified in six classes with inspiration from Godlang:

• "Places": dental, alveolar, retroflex, palatal, velar, uvular
• "Manners": nasal, stop, fricative
• "Voices": lenis (voiced), tenuis (voiceless), fortis (aspirated voiceless)
• "Frontness": front, central, back
• "Openness": close, mid, open
• "Tones": low, medium, high

1458 base syllables with different meanings

Consonants

		Dental	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Nasal	Lenis	⟨ņ⟩ /n̪/	⟨n⟩ /n/	⟨ṇ⟩ /ɳ/	⟨ṅ⟩ /ɲ/	⟨ṋ⟩ /ŋ/	⟨ṉ⟩ /ɴ/
	Tenuis	n̪̊	n̥	ɳ̊	ɲ̥	ŋ̊	ɴ̥
	Fortis	n̪̊ʰ	n̥ʰ	ɳ̊ʰ	ɲ̥ʰ	ŋ̊ʰ	ɴ̥ʰ
Stop	Lenis	⟨ț⟩ /d̪/	⟨t⟩ /d/	⟨ṭ⟩ /ɖ/	⟨ṫ⟩ /ɟ/	⟨ṱ⟩ /ɡ/	⟨ṯ⟩ /ɢ/
	Tenuis	t̪	t	ʈ	c	k	q
	Fortis	t̪ʰ	tʰ	ʈʰ	cʰ	kʰ	qʰ
Fricative	Lenis	⟨ș⟩ /ð/	⟨s⟩ /z/	⟨ṣ⟩ /ʐ/	⟨ṡ⟩ /ʝ/	⟨s̭⟩ /ɣ/	⟨s̱⟩ /ʁ/
	Tenuis	θ	s	ʂ	ç	x	χ
	Fortis	θʰ	sʰ	ʂʰ	çʰ	xʰ	χʰ

Tenuis is shown with a preceding h and fortis with a succeeding one: t /d/, ht /t/ and th /tʰ/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	⟨i⟩ /i/	⟨ï⟩ /ɨ/	⟨u⟩ /ɯ/
Mid	⟨e⟩ /e̞/	⟨ë⟩ /ə/	⟨o⟩ /ɤ̞/
Open	⟨a⟩ /a/	⟨ä⟩ /ä/	⟨ö⟩ /ɑ/

Tones

Three tones:

• low ⟨a,⟩ /à/
• medium ⟨a⟩ /a/
• high ⟨a’⟩ /á/

Phonotactics

Every syllable has to have an onset, but never contains a coda.

Orthography

In academic world, Lordlang is written in hexagons, where each side indicates one of the parameters.

Orthography

Lords are able to imprint magical hexagon glyphs which encode entire sentences in fractal packages. Humans only use a featural abugida where each side of a hexagon indicates one of the six parameters.

Morphophonology

combinations of morphemes, consonant gradation

Morphology

logical language which serves as a source of inspiration for Akekatans

polysynthetic verbs form sentences by agglutinating morphemes