Kilvanan

Kilvanan
Era	modern
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Spoken in	Fortsanaphat
Speaker
Endonym	Kilvanacatra
Exonym	Kilvanan
Technical information
Language code	KVN

Kilvanan (natively Kilvanacatr /kilvanat͡satr̩/) is the primary language of Fortsanaphat.

Phonology

Consonants

	labial	coronal	dorsal
nasal	m	n	ŋ
plosive	p, b	t, d, t͡s, d͡z	k, g, q
fricative	ɸ, β, f, v	θ, ð, s, z	x, ɣ
liquid	w	l, r	j, (w)

• /t͡s, d͡z, s, z, k, g, x, ɣ/ are realized as [t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ, ʃ, ʒ, c, ɟ, ç, ʝ] respectively when preceeding /i, y, e/
• /q/ is realized as [k] adjacent to /i, y, e/
• /l/ and /n/ are realized as [ʎ] and [ɲ] respectively after /i, y, e/

Vowels

	front	central	back
high	i, y		u
mid	e	ə	o
low		a

Kilvanan uses a 7-vowel system.

• when preceeding a nasal, vowels become nasalized
• when adjacent to /q/, /ə/ and /a/ are realized as [ɵ̞] and [ɒ]
• nasals and liquids may act as vowels; /w/ and /j/ are replaced by /u/ and /i/ when acting as a vowel

Phonotactics

Kilvanan phonotactics seem to be fairly unrestrictive. An example of a maximum syllable is /fort͡s/, the word for snow.

Orthography

letter	letter name	phoneme
A a	a	/a/
B b	bə	/b/
Ƃ ƃ	ƃə	/β/
C c	cə	/t͡s/
D d	də	/d/
Ð ð	ðə	/ð/
E e	e	/e/
Ə ə	ə	/ə/
F f	fə	/f/
G g	gə	/g/
H h	hə	/x/
I i	i	/i/
J j	jə	/j/
K k	kə	/k/
L l	lə	/l/
M m	mə	/m/
N n	nə	/n/
Ŋ ŋ	ŋə	/ŋ/
O o	o	/o/
P p	pə	/p/
Q q	qə	/q/
Ƣ ƣ	ƣə	/ɣ/
R r	rə	/r/
S s	sə	/s/
T t	tə	/t/
U u	u	/u/
V v	və	/v/
W w	wə	/w/
X x	xə	/d͡z/
Y y	y	/y/
Z z	zə	/z/
Þ þ	þə	/θ/