Arovën
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| Arovën | ||
|---|---|---|
| Created by: | Joshua Shinavier | |
| Setting and usage: | Aroël | |
| Total speakers: | 5 | |
| Category (purpose): | constructed language Arovën |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | art | |
| ISO 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Arovën is a constructed language by Joshua Shinavier, who hosts the Conlang Yellow Pages. Its name means "thought language"; it was designed to accurately represent thoughts. Its phonology draws mostly from German and Swedish, and its grammar is agglutinative and designed to be logical, though its syntactical patterns are somewhat Germanic.
The words in Arovën exhibit phonesthemic qualities. D, for instance, represents solidity, firmness and reliability. G begins words that are hard, practical and down-to-earth. N is businesslike, conservative, social and human. The vowel A represents great size or volume, while the vowel I indicates something small.
Danovën is a logically unambiguous subset of Arovën, meant for certain formal contexts.
[edit] Phonology
Arovën uses the following phonemes:
| a | /a/ |
| ä | /ɒ/ |
| e | /ɛ/ |
| ë | /e/ |
| i | /ɪ/ |
| ï | /i/ |
| o | /o/ |
| ö | /ø/ |
| u | /u/ |
| ü | /y/ |
| bilabial | labio- dental |
dental | alveolar | post- alveolar |
palatal | velar | glottal | |
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| plosive | p b | t d | k g | |||||
| nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| trill | r | |||||||
| fricative | f v | ð | s z | ʃ ʒ | h | |||
| affricate | dʒ | |||||||
| approximant | j | |||||||
| lateral approximant | l |
| labial-velar | |
|---|---|
| approximant | w |
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