Trace Deeplects

Trace Deeplects are incomplete portions of languages that have been detected in experiments attempting to verify the Deep Dimensional theory. While the strongest evidence for Deep Dimensional is the languages that have inexplicably appeared, MARA experiments have found trace amounts of languages in their investigations, giving it more credibility. However, measurement error is not ruled out. This article will contain all the information on every Trace Deeplect. Trace Deeplects are listed in order of their negative discovery.

Deeplect -5

Consonants

X language has a small consonant inventory with about half of its consonants being clicks. This small size is made up for in extreme allophony.

Consonant		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Glottal
Pulmonic	Stop	p		t		ʔ
	Fricative			s		hʲ
	Glide	w		l	j
Click	Nasal		ᵑǀ	ᵑǃ
	Aspirate		ᵏǀʰ	ᵏǃʰ
	Glottalized		ᵏǀˀ	ᵏǃˀ

Vowels

X language has two levels of stress: primary and secondary. Primary stress is marked with vowel length and can have a high, low, falling, or rising tone. Secondary stress is marked with either a high or low tone. Primary stress is word-initial, but secondary stress is lexical.

Vowels	Oral		Nasal
	Front	Back	Front	Back
Close	i	u	ĩ	ũ
Mid	e	o	ẽ
Open		a

Phonotactics

(C)(G)V(C); C = consonant; G = /t ʔ w j/; Q = click; V = vowel

1. pʔ tʔ > pʼ tʼ
2. p t hʲ > m̥ n̥ ɲ̊ / _Ṽ
3. p t c ʔ s > b d ɟ ʔ̞ z / _{i,e} !{#,C̥}_
4. d ǃ > ɟ ǂ / _i
5. w l j > m n ɲ / {Ṽ_,_Ṽ}
6. n̥ n t > ŋ̊ ŋ k / _u
7. l > ɾ / _{u,o,a}
8. V > Ṽ / ᵑQ_
9. ᵑǀw ᵑǃj > ᵑʘ ᵑǂ
10. hʲ / Ø !_{i,ĩ,e,ẽ}
11. QC / Ø !QC=!w
12. CQ jʔ hʲʔ / Ø

Romanization

Consonant	Romanization												Vowel	Romanization
/p/	[p]	p	[b]	b	[m̥]	mh							/i/		[i]	i	[ĩ]	i
/t/	[t]	t	[d]	d	[ɟ]	dj	[k]	k	[n̥]	nh	[ŋ̊]	ngh	/ĩ/		[ĩ]	iŋ
/ʔ/	[ʔ]	'	[ʔ̞]	'									/u/		[u]	u	[ũ]	u
/s/	[s]	s	[z]	z									/ũ/		[ũ]	uŋ
/hʲ/	[hʲ]	hj	[ɲ̊]	hj									/e/		[e]	e	[ẽ]	e
/w/	[w]	w	[m]	m									/ẽ/		[ẽ]	eŋ
/l/	[l]	l	[ɾ]	r	[n]	n	[ŋ]	ng					/o/		[o]	o	[õ]	o
/j/	[j]	y	[ɲ]	nj									/a/		[a]	a	[ã]	a
/ᵑǀ/	[ᵑǀ]	nc
/ᵑǃ/	[ᵑǃ]	nq	[ᵑǂ]	nqy
/ᵏǀʰ/	[ᵏǀʰ]	ch
/ᵏǃʰ/	[ᵏǃʰ]	qh	[ᵏǂʰ]	qh
/ᵏǀˀ/	[ᵏǀˀ]	c'
/ᵏǃˀ/	[ᵏǃˀ]	q'	[ᵏǂˀ]	q'
/ᵑǀw/	[ᵑʘ]	mc
/ᵑǃj/	[ᵑǂ]	nqy

Deeplect -4

Consonants

All consonants can be lengthened except for /r̥ ɽ͡r ˀɽ/.

Consonants		Labial		Dental				Postalveolar				Palatal				Glottal
				Plain		Glottalized		Plain		Glottalized		Plain		Glottalized
		IPA	Rom	IPA	Rom	IPA	Rom	IPA	Rom	IPA	Rom	IPA	Rom	IPA	Rom	IPA	Rom
Nasal		ɱ	m	n	n	ˀn	’n	ɳ	nr	ˀɳ	’nr	ɲ	nj	ˀɲ	’nj
Plosive	Voiceless			t	t	tʼ	tʼ	ʈ	tr			c	k	cʼ	k’	ʔ	’
	Voiced			d	d	ɗ	d’	ɖ	dr			ɟ	g	ʄ	g’
Affricate				t͡s	c	t͡sʼ	c’	t͡ʃ	x	t͡ʃʼ	x’	c͡ç	cj	c͡çʼ	cj’
Fricative	Voiceless	f	f	s	s			ʃ	sr			ç	sj			h	h
	Voiced	v	v	z	z			ʒ	zr			ʝ	zj
Approximant				ð	ð
Liquid	Voiceless			ɬ	hl			r̥	hr
	Voiced			l	l	ˀl	’l	ɽ͡r	rr	ˀɽ	’r	ʎ	lj	ˀʎ	’lj

Vowels and Tones

All vowels have one of four tones: high, low, falling, and rising. Falling and rising tones are closer to the middle range than high or low. High tone is accompanied by preaspiration. On a word-initial vowel, the preaspiration is breathy. The preaspiration is converted into voiceless aspiration on any preceding voiceless consonant, and breathy voice on any preceding voiced consonant. Low tone is accompanied by creaky voice on the vowel.

Vowels are separated into 2 classes based on their phonotactic behavior and evolutionary history. Class 1 vowels have no phonotactic restrictions other than that they cannot form diphthongs with each other. These vowels originated from the proto-language's 3-vowel system /e a o/.

Class 2 vowels must be preceded or followed by a consonant, or both, and cannot be adjacent to a Class 1 vowel. Class 2 vowels can form diphthongs with each other. These diphthongs use the same tone system as other vowels. Diphthongs with consonants involve sliding articulation. Class 2 diphthongs cannot be adjacent to each other and adhere to the same restrictions as Class 2 monophthongs. They are excluded from the charts because all Class 2 vowels can form diphthongs (or long vowels) with another and it is not specially notated in romanization.

There are three romanizations systems for this language which differ in vowel and tone notation. The Vohnegien notation prioritized representing historical pronunciation such as syllabic consonants and their descendants being written with an vowel-initial diagraph upon which tones would be marked with diacritics. Vohnegien notation is seen as more outdated by some, but still used by a few scattered this language-speaking regions and by linguists.

Vohnegien Notation
Vowels		Non-labial						Labial
		Extra-Front		Front		Back		Front		Back
		IPA	Vohn.	IPA	Vohn.	IPA	Vohn.	IPA	Vohn.	IPA	Vohn.
Class 1	Monophthong			e	e	ɤ	y			o	o
	Diphthong			je	ie	ɰɤ	uy			wo	uo
Class 2	Nasal	n̩	an	ĩ	in			ɱ̍	am	ũ	un
	Close	l̩	al	i	iy			y	iu	ʉ	eu
	Open	r̩	ar	æ	ae	ɑ	ao			ɵ	au
Tones		-H		-L		⟨V⟩ here is used to represent a vowel, not the letter V.
		IPA	Vohn.	IPA	Vohn.
H-		ʰV́	V̄	V̂	V̀
L-		V̌	V́	V̰̀	V

Gritchend approached notation from a modern pronunciation in which diacritics are used on consonants to show syllabicity and on vowels to show vowel quality. Gritchend elected to romanize tones with unused consonant letters. Gritchend notation is broadly considered the modern notation of the language and is used in most formal and informal contexts.

Gritchend Notation
Vowels		Non-labial						Labial
		Extra-Front		Front		Back		Front		Back
		IPA	Vohn.	IPA	Vohn.	IPA	Vohn.	IPA	Vohn.	IPA	Vohn.
Class 1	Monophthong			e	e	ɤ	y			o	o
	Diphthong			je	ie	ɰɤ	uy			wo	uo
Class 2	Nasal	n̩	ń	ĩ	ĩ			ɱ̍	ḿ	ũ	ũ
	Close	l̩	ĺ	i	i			y	u	ʉ	ü
	Open	r̩	ŕ	æ	ä	ɑ	a			ɵ	ö
Tones		-H		-L		⟨S⟩ here is used to represent a syllable, not the letter S.
		IPA	Grit.	IPA	Grit.
H-		ʰV́	S	V̂	Sb
L-		V̌	Sp	V̰̀	Sq

In the interest of avoiding the use of diacritics altogether, Vondenberg combined the vowel notation of Vohnegien and tone notation of Gritchend. This more modern romanization is most often used in informal text messages and typing with decorative fonts, which often have poor diacritic support.

Vondenberg Notation
Vowels		Non-labial						Labial
		Extra-Front		Front		Back		Front		Back
		IPA	Vond.	IPA	Vond.	IPA	Vond.	IPA	Vond.	IPA	Vond.
Class 1	Monophthong			e	e	ɤ	y			o	o
	Diphthong			je	ie	ɰɤ	uy			wo	uo
Class 2	Nasal	n̩	an	ĩ	in			ɱ̍	am	ũ	un
	Close	l̩	al	i	iy			y	iu	ʉ	eu
	Open	r̩	ar	æ	ae	ɑ	ao			ɵ	au
Tones		-H		-L		⟨S⟩ here is used to represent a syllable, not the letter S.
		IPA	Grit.	IPA	Grit.
H-		ʰV́	S	V̂	Sb
L-		V̌	Sp	V̰̀	Sq

Deeplect -3

Consonants

Non-Click Consonant		Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar/Uvular	Laryngeal
				Plain	Fricated
Stop	Plain	p p	t͡θ th	t t	t͡s ts	t͡ʃ ch	k c	ʡ q
				d d	d͡z dz	d͡ʒ gh	g g
	Glottalized				t͡s’ ts’	t͡ʃʼ ch’	kʼ c’	ʔˤ q’
		ɓ b’		ɗ d’		ʄ gh’	ɠ g’
Fricative	Plain				s s	ʃ š	χ x	ħ h
						ʒ ž		ʕ ǧ
	Glottalized					ʃʼ š’	χʼ x’
Nasal		m m	n n			ŋ ň
Sonorant		β̞ v	lː l	r r	r̝ rz	j y

Allophony

• /t͡ʃ d͡ʒ t͡ʃʼ ʄ k ɡ kʼ ɠ/ become [k͡x g͡ɣ k͡xʼ ɠ q ɢ qʼ ʛ] before low or back vowels.

Click Consonant		Bilabial		Dental		Alveolar		Lateral		Palatal
		Velar	Uvular	Velar	Uvular	Velar	Uvular	Velar	Uvular	Velar	Uvular
Nasal	Fricated	ŋʘʰ mwh	ɴʘχ mwx	ŋǀʰ nzh	ɴǀχ nzx	ŋǃʰ nkh	ɴǃχ nkx	ŋǁʰ nllh	ɴǁχ nllx	ŋǂʰ njh	ɴǂχ njx
	Plain	ŋʘ mw	ɴʘ wm	ŋǀ nz	ɴǀ zn	ŋǃ nk	ɴǃ kn	ŋǁ nll	ɴǁ lln	ŋǂ nj	ɴǂ jn
	Ploded	ŋʘˀ mw’	ɴʘq mwq	ŋǀˀ nz’	ɴǀq nzq	ŋǃˀ nk’	ɴǃq nkq	ŋǁˀ nll’	ɴǁq nllq	ŋǂˀ nj’	ɴǂq njq
Oral	Affricate	ʘk͡x wch	qʘχ wx	ǀk͡x zch	qǀχ zx	ǃk͡x kch	qǃχ kx	ǁk͡x llch	qǁχ llx	ǂk͡x jch	qǂχ jx
		gʘx gwx		gǀx gzx		gǃx gkx		gǁx gllx		gǂx gjx
	Aspirated	kʘʰ wh		kǀʰ zh		kǃʰ kh		kǁʰ llh		kǂʰ jh
		gʘʱ gwh		gǀʱ gzh		gǃʱ gkh		gǁʱ gllh		gǂʱ gjh
	Plain	kʘ cw	ʘq wq	kǀ cz	ǀq zq	kǃ ck	ǃq kq	kǁ cll	ǁq llq	kǂ cj	ǂq jq
		gʘ gw	ʘɢ wg	gǀ gz	ǀɢ zg	gǃ gk	ǃɢ kg	gǁ gll	ǁɢ llg	gǂ gj	ǂɢ jg
	Glottalized	kʘˀ w’		kǀˀ z’		kǃˀ k’		kǁˀ ll’		kǂˀ j’
		gkʘˀ gcw’	ɢqʘˀ gqw’	gkǀˀ gcz’	ɢqǀˀ gqz’	gkǃˀ gck’	ɢqǃˀ gqk’	gkǁˀ gcll’	ɢqǁˀ gqll’	gkǂˀ gcj’	ɢqǂˀ gqj’
	Ejective	ʘkʼ wc’	ʘqʼ wq’	ǀkʼ zc’	ǀqʼ zq’	ǃkʼ kc’	ǃqʼ kq’	ǁkʼ llc’	ǁqʼ llq’	ǂkʼ jc’	ǂqʼ jq’

An apostrophe is placed between grapheme clusters that may be confused with whole graphemes, e.g. ⟨amwha⟩ is /a.ŋʘʰa/ and ⟨am’wha⟩ is /am.kʘʰa/.

Vowels

The vowel qualities are /i u e o a ã/ ⟨i u e o a ã⟩, with the long vowels /iː uː ɛː ɔː ɑː ãː/ ⟨ī ū ē ō ā ãa⟩ and overlong vowels /iːː uːː eːːː oːːː aːːː ãːːː/ ⟨ii uu ee oo aa ãā⟩.

The possible diphthongs are /ei eo oe oi ou oa ue ua ai ae au ao oã uã ãi ãe ãu ão/.

Phonations include modal, breathy ⟨◌h⟩, creaky ⟨◌’⟩, (all three of which can be pharyngealized ⟨◌·⟩), and strident ⟨◌ħ⟩. A long vowels and diphthongs can contain more than one phonation, but short and overlong vowels cannot.

All vowels can be -ATR or +ATR ⟨◌y⟩, corresponding to tongue root harmony. This harmony can change voiceless plain stops to breathy stops (except /p/ which becomes [b]). It is a progressive harmony that begins from the start of a root word and is blocked by ejective and uvular consonants. +ATR is only romanized on the first vowel of a root word.

Allophony

• Vowels are nasalized whenever adjacent to nasal phonemes. /ã/ merges with /a/, so ⟨ã⟩ is not used adjacent to nasal phonemes.

Deeplect -2

		Labiodental		Dental				Alveolar				Palatal				Uvular				Epiglottal
				Plain		Labial		Plain		Labial		Plain		Labial		Plain		Labial
Nasal		ɱ	m	n̪	’n			n	n			ɲ	nj			ɴ	ng
Plosive	Tense			ʔ͡d̪̊	’t	ʔ͡d̪̊ʷ	’tw	ʔ͡d̥	t	ʔ͡d̥ʷ	tw	ʔ͡ɟ̊	c	ʔ͡ɟ̊ʷ	cw	ʔ͡ɢ̥	k	ʔ͡ɢ̥ʷ	kw	ʡ	q
	Lax			d̪𐞖	’dh	d̪𐞖ʷ	’dhw	d𐞖	dh	d𐞖ʷ	dhw	ɟ𐞖	jh	ɟ𐞖ʷ	jhw	ɢ𐞖	gh	ɢ𐞖ʷ	ghw
	Voiced			d̪	’d	d̪ʷ	’nw	d	d	dʷ	dw	ɟ	j	ɟʷ	jw	ɢ	g	ɢʷ	gw
Fricative				ð	ð	ðʷ	ðw	z	z	zʷ	zw	ʝ	y	ʝʷ	yw	ʁ	x	ʁʷ	xw	ʜ	h
Vibrant		ⱱ	v					r	r	rʷ	rw
Lateral				l̪	’l			l	l			ʎ	lj			ʟ	lg

	Front				Non-Front
	High		Low		High		Low
Close	í	í	ì	i	ɨ́	ú	ɨ̀	u
Close-Mid	é	é	è	e	ɘ́	ó	ɘ̀	o
Open					ɐ́	á	ɐ̀	a

Deeplect -1

Grammar
Gloss	IPA	Description	Examples
CAUS.GNO	jɾa-	production, resultation, consequence (gnomic and nouns)	kesˈteltɔ jɾaˈmiawa (earth brings life)
CAUS	ko-	caused (tense, verbs only)	kes'teltɔ koˈmiawe̤ (earth is causing life to exist)
MOA	-a,ɔ > -e̤	verbalizer (motion of agent, MOA). MOA verbs receive an adverb? auxiliary verb? after, showing the precise action taking place if it isn't clear from the primary verb (it would be clear if the prim. verb was "to go to" but not if it's "to water"). unclear primary verbs used without secondary verbs are said to simply "be occuring" or "be existing".	ˈbiːje̤ (approaching water) kesˈtelte̤ (kicking the ground)
MOS	-a,ɔ > -ʕu	verbalizer (motion of secondary thing, MOS). MOS places the object after the verb. objects and "secondary verbs" (referenced above) do not differ in marking	ˈbiːjʕu (splashing water on someone/watering something) kesˈteltʕu (kicking dirt at something/someone)
MOP	-a,ɔ > -a(ʕim)	verbalizer (motion of patient, MOP). MOP places its object before the verb. -ʕim is only added for formality, emphasis, or syntactic disambiguation.	ˈbiːja(ʕim) ~ spraying water around kesˈtela(ʕim) ~ kicking up dirt

whether a verb is conjugated to MOA/MOS/MOP is determined by which action the speaker wants to focus on the most, even though usually 2 or 3 of them will be actually occuring

topic pronouns (marked for person, number, and obviation) are clitics that attach to a particle with some of their grammatical information (cases).

1. 1P.SG.OBV1 ~ ũ=
2. 1P.SG.OBV2 ~ nã=
3. 1P.SG.OBV3 ~ ˈdeu=
4. 2P.SG.OBV1 ~ in=
5. 2P.SG.OBV2 ~ ja̤=
6. 2P.SG.OBV3 ~ tḛːŋ=
7. 3P.SG.OBV1 ~ ki=
8. 3P.SG.OBV2 ~ ɾḛj=
9. 3P.SG.OBV3 ~ aːn=
10. 1P.PL.INCL ~ eˈdo=
11. 1P.PL.EXCL ~ kʼe=
12. 2P.PL.INCL ~ ˈkimi=
13. 2P.PL.EXCL ~ ˈhuku=
14. 3P.PL.OBV1 ~ sto=
15. 3P.PL.OBV2 ~ ˈmihi=
16. 3P.PL.OBV3 ~ aˈdoː=
17. REFL ~ pi
    • used in stuff like drinking(MOS), eating(MOS), etc.
18. nominative ~ i
19. vocative ~ -ʃa̤,ja̤/i'ja̤
20. benefactive ~ -(ɾ)e/ri
21. malefactive ~ -ḛːse/ḛːse
22. dative ~ -ãw/ŋaw
23. commitative ~ -(k,ɡ,ʼ)iː/kiː
24. instrumental ~ -(s,z)ãʰː/zãʰː
25. other case particles can be derived using class-less variants of words, which can get prefixed to a non-topic noun

• sometimes the particle may be used alone instead of the pronoun clitic.
• the pronoun clitic can be attached to a word to show stronger volition toward that aspect of the action described in the sentence (i.e. TOP=[verb] for showing stronger intent for the action than the object, or TOP=[object] for the opposite). stronger volition toward one aspect often implies weaker volition or intent toward the rest (TOP=[verb] may imply accidentally affecting the object, and TOP=[object] may imply accidentally performing the action, but meaning to do something to the object).
• both or either of the pronoun clitic and particle may be omitted. omission only occurs in the event of redundance.
• there is a subject case particle.
• other NPs are listed in the beginning of the sentence in order of decreasing relevance. their cases (and conjunctions) are expressed in affixes, not a particle.

• every part of speech has its own set of classes (they do not correspond to each other).
• modifiers are added by affixing the modifiee's class suffix and changing the modifiee's suffix to -aː (this assumes all classes affixes will be suffixes but maybe i wont do that)
  1. kesˈteltɔ modified by beˈʔaɾa (cooled lava ground) > kesˈtelt-ɔ beˈʔa-ɾa > kesˈtelt-aː beˈʔa-ɾa-ɔ > kesˈteltaː beˈʔaɔ
• noun classes (suffixes and prefixes):

1. -a, -ɔ ~ fluid, changing (animals, thoughts, breath, wind, clothing, some gods)
2. -ɾa ~ dangerous (lava, fire, poisonous food, weapon used, some gods)
3. zũː- ~ machinery (car, computer, lock, some weapons merely existing)
4. kʰ- ~ valuable natural item (diamond, gold, ivory)
5. tʰe- ~ material for use (wood, paper, ink, glue, metal, cloth)
6. -ʔiː ~ natural (plants, sun, moon, dirt, some gods)
7. -nõ ~ human, human-related concept, or thing altered by humanity (person, domesticated animals, weapon created, gods from secular perspective)

• verb classes (suffixes):

1. -e ~
2. -l ~
3. -a ~

• adjective/adverb classes (prefixes):
• unmarked ~ quality
• xe- ~ identity
• o- ~ relation
• adposition classes (suffixes):

• when creating a phrase or description, go with more actually-occurs options before hypothetical or culturally-specific ones (i.e. kesˈteltaː beˈʔaɾɔ is a ground of cooled lava, not the ground being molten lava as is pretended in the game "the floor is lava", since the former is more likely to be used in a real situation than the latter)

kesˈteltɔ ~ earth

ˈbiːja ~ water

kṵːɾa ~ fire

ˈmiawa ~ life

ˈzũːkũː ~ metal, mechanical

ˈkʰuːihu ~ gold

beˈʔaɾa ~ lava

ˈtʰeːsʼaː ~ wood

liˈʔiː ~ plant

oˈŋãinõ ~ human

eˈumĩa ~ love

çiːa ~ emotion(s)

xkiˈʔiː ~ think, mind

ˈtʰenũː ~ paper

tʰeˈʔjul ~ ink

ˈzũːmãi ~ pen

he ~ move to

iːl ~ move at/in

ɬaː ~ express, release, secrete

ˈtʰeŋʔiː ~ visible attribute

kɔʔjɔ ~ color, shadow, brightness, angle

tḛjjɔ ~ red, hot pink, orange, brown, violet

vɾiː ~ yellow, orange, lime, beige, white, pink

ħaːn ~ green, lime, evergreen

ˈijaɲ ~ cyan, mint

ˈṳba ~ blue, indigo, purple, black

naːˈħal ~ dark yellow, muddy green

ħũːe ~ correct, factual, verified, verifiable