Vidish
| Vidish | |
|---|---|
| Language family | Saxo-Syzkynic |
| Writing system | Latin |
| Official status | |
| Spoken in | Amuj |
| Regulated by | Casual Mitosis Collective |
| Speaker | |
| Demonym | Vidish |
| Endonym | Vidish [ˈβ̞i.disx] |
| Exonym | Vidish |
| Number of speakers | 1 |
| Technical information | |
| Usage | Signage |
| Language code | VID |
Vidish (natively: Vidish [ˈβ̞i.disx]) is a Saxo-Syzkynic language spoken on the northeastern coast of the Sea of Fortune and is an official language of Amuj, alongside Sesje and English.
Phonology
Consonants
Vidish has 21 consonants.
| Labials | Dentals | Alveolars | Postalveolars | Palatals | Velars | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosives | p b | t d | tʃ dʒ ⟨c j⟩ | k g | |||
| Nasals | m | n | (ŋ) | ||||
| Fricatives | Straight | f | θ ⟨þ⟩ | s | ʃ ⟨x⟩ | x ⟨h⟩ | |
| Lateral | ɬ ⟨q⟩ | ||||||
| Trills | r | ||||||
| Approximant | β̞ ⟨v⟩ | l | j | ||||
- [ŋ] is an allophone of [n] before [k g x].
- The choices of ⟨c j x q⟩ to write [tʃ dʒ ʃ ɬ] were made arbitrarily.
Vowels
Vidish has 6 basic vowels, each having 3 lengths: short, long, and overlong.
| Front | Back | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short | Long | Overlong | Short | Long | Overlong | |
| Close | i | iː ⟨ī⟩ | iːː ⟨î⟩ | u | uː ⟨ū⟩ | uːː ⟨û⟩ |
| Mid | e | eː ⟨ē⟩ | eːː ⟨ê⟩ | o | oː ⟨ō⟩ | oːː ⟨ô⟩ |
| Open | æ | æː ⟨ǣ⟩ | æːː ⟨æ̂⟩ | a | aː ⟨ā⟩ | aːː ⟨â⟩ |