Kingspeech
| Kingspeech (La E) | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | [la e] |
| Timeline and Universe: | Semiramis Universe, Post-Catastrophe |
| Species: | Post-Catastrophe Hominid |
| Spoken: | Phazum (planet) |
| Total speakers: | c. 500 in Phazum |
| Writing system: | Unknown |
| Genealogy: | Isolate |
| Typology: | |
| Morphology: | Isolating |
| Morphosyntax: | Accusative |
| Word order: | SVO |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Linguarum Magister |
| Created: | 2012 |
Kingspeech (La E) is the proto-language (in the sense of early, rather than ancestral) of the re-uplifted humans of the planet Phazum. As of this date, the language skills are small but increasing.
Phonology
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | ||||||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | s | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | l | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||||
| High | i | u | ||||||||
| Low | a | |||||||||
| Long Vowels | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | I | U | ||||||||||||||
| A | a: | ja | wa | |||||||||||||
| I | aj | i: | wi | |||||||||||||
| U | aw | ju | u: | |||||||||||||
Vocabulary
Kingsmen/Phazum Speech Substantives (Class 1) I/me – a You – i Someone/Person – u People – e Relational Substantives (Class 2) Something/Thing – ú Body – á Kind – é Part - í Determiners (Class 3) This – sá Same – sí Other – sú Quantifiers (Class 4) One – ma Two – mi Some – mu All – me Many/Much – mo Evaluators (Class 5) Good - tá Bad – tí Descriptors (Class 6) Big – pá Small – pí Mental/Experiential Predicates (Class 7) Think – pa Know – pi Want – pu Feel – pe See – po Hear – pá Speech (Class 8) Say – la Word – li True – lu Actions and Events (Class 9) Do – sa Happen – si Move – su Existence and Possession (Class 10) There Is/Exist – má Have – mí Life and Death (Class 11) Live – lá Die – lí Time (Class 12) Time – ta Now – ta ni Before – ta nu After – ta ne A long time – ta no A short time – ta ná For some time – ta nú Moment – ta né Space (Class 13) Where/Place – na Here – (na) ni Above – (na) nu Below – (na) ne Far – (na) no Near – (na) ná Side – (na) ní Inside – (na) nú Touch (Contact) – né Logical Concepts (Class 14) Not – ka Maybe – ki Can – ku Because – ke If – ki Intensifier, Augmentor (Class 15) Very – tú More – tó Similarity (Class 16) Like/Way - pú áéíóú