Vidish
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Vidish | |
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Language family | Saxo-Syzkynic |
Writing system | Latin |
Official status | |
Spoken in | North Amuj |
Regulated by | Casual Mitosis Collective |
Speaker | |
Demonym | Vidish |
Endonym | Vidish [ˈβ̞i.disx] |
Exonym | Vidish |
Number of speakers | 0 |
Technical information | |
Usage | Signage |
Language code | VID |
Vidish (natively: Vidish [ˈβ̞i.disx]) was a Saxo-Syzkynic language spoken on the northeastern coast of the Sea of Fortune and was an official language of North Amuj before the official constitution struck Vidish out of existence altogether.
Phonology
Consonants
Vidish has 21 consonants.
Labials | Dentals | Alveolars | Postalveolars | Palatals | Velars | ||
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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 ⟨y⟩ |
- [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 | |||||
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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⟩ |