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|setting = Alt-Earth | |setting = Alt-Earth | ||
|script = | |script = Lifashian alphabet | ||
|nation = Dár Lífasyám | |nation = Dár Lífasyám | ||
|agency = National Lifashian Language Board<br/>''so Majalis Lommehi Dáré Lífasyám'' | |agency = National Lifashian Language Board<br/>''so Majalis Lommehi Dáré Lífasyám'' | ||
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Lifashian developed on its own, distinctly from other Indo-European languages, despite sharing some traits with the [[w:Anatolian languages|Anatolian languages]], [[w:Armenian language|Armenian]], and [[w:Greek language|Greek]]. Its vocabulary has a substantial number of inherited roots, but through millennia the language absorbed many loanwords, especially from [[w:Persian language|Persian]] and [[w:Arabic language|Arabic]] (through the former), and to smaller extents from its neighbours Armenian, the [[w:Kartvelian languages|Kartvelian languages]] and [[w:Turkish language|Turkish]], as well as from Greek and [[w:Russian language|Russian]]. | Lifashian developed on its own, distinctly from other Indo-European languages, despite sharing some traits with the [[w:Anatolian languages|Anatolian languages]], [[w:Armenian language|Armenian]], and [[w:Greek language|Greek]]. Its vocabulary has a substantial number of inherited roots, but through millennia the language absorbed many loanwords, especially from [[w:Persian language|Persian]] and [[w:Arabic language|Arabic]] (through the former), and to smaller extents from its neighbours Armenian, the [[w:Kartvelian languages|Kartvelian languages]] and [[w:Turkish language|Turkish]], as well as from Greek and [[w:Russian language|Russian]]. | ||
It is written in the Lifashian alphabet, a bicameral script ultimately related to other ancient scripts of Asia Minor like the [[w:Lydian alphabet|Lydian alphabet]]. | |||
In external history and setting, Lifashian is meant to be a more serious reboot of [[Wendlandish]], though belonging to a different IE branch and being located in another area of Eurasia. | In external history and setting, Lifashian is meant to be a more serious reboot of [[Wendlandish]], though belonging to a different IE branch and being located in another area of Eurasia. | ||
==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||
Lifashian has been written since ancient times in its own alphabet; initially a derivative of other ancient scripts of Asia Minor (possibly from the [[w:Lydian alphabet|Lydian alphabet]], which it shares most of the alphabetical order with), it later further modified the ancient letters, which became the modern majuscules, and developed its own set of minuscule letters, which are today most often very different from the majuscules. Cursive minuscules (not in the table below) are furthermore often quite different from both sets. | |||
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! '''''a''''' !! '''''á''''' !! '''''b''''' !! '''''c''''' !! '''''d''''' !! '''''e''''' !! '''''é''''' !! '''''f''''' !! '''''g''''' !! '''''h''''' !! '''''i''''' !! '''''í''''' | ! '''''a''''' !! '''''á''''' !! '''''b''''' !! '''''c''''' !! '''''d''''' !! '''''e''''' !! '''''é''''' !! '''''f''''' !! '''''g''''' !! '''''h''''' !! '''''i''''' !! '''''í''''' | ||
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| {{IPA|/ʃ/}} || {{IPA|/t/}} || {{IPA|/u/}} || {{IPA|/uː/}} || {{IPA|/w/}} || {{IPA|/j/}} || {{IPA|/z/}} || {{IPA|/ʒ/}} || colspan=4 | | | {{IPA|/ʃ/}} || {{IPA|/t/}} || {{IPA|/u/}} || {{IPA|/uː/}} || {{IPA|/w/}} || {{IPA|/j/}} || {{IPA|/z/}} || {{IPA|/ʒ/}} || colspan=4 | | ||
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The common sequence {{IPA|/ŋn/}} is written as '''mm'''. | The common sequence {{IPA|/ŋn/}} is written as '''mm'''. | ||