Arkothic (arkoθik)
Arkothic, the titular tongue of the Arkoth peoples of Korgosht, is a language that is wide spread across the plains of Kadagard. The Arkoth have spread this language far and wide through their trade and conquest, to the point where today on the steppes bellow the Allfire Peaks it is used as a trade language with the peoples at the center of the continent.
Phonetics
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post-Alveolar | Velar | Glottal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Plosive | t d | k g | ʔ | |||
| Sibilant-Affricate | ts | tʃ | ||||
| Non-Sibilant-Affricate | kx | |||||
| Sibilant-Fricative | s | ʃ | ||||
| Non-Sibilant-Fricative | θ ð | x ɣ | h | |||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Lateral Approximate | l |
| Vowels | Front | Back |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i i: | u u: |
| Close-Mid | o o: | |
| Open-Mid | ɛ ɛ: | |
| Open | a a: |
Phonotactics
Arkothic syllable structure is summarized as such:(c)(c)cv(c)(c)
The only obligatory sounds are the final onset consonant and the nucleus usually comprising the vowel. Each vowel has a long form and Arkothic pays very close attention to long vowels, with the stress of a word determined almost entirely by which syllable has the long vowel. If a word does not have a syllable with a long vowel, than the second syllable is the one that receives the stress. Stress is highly important in Arkothic, as the syllable which contains the stress can completely change the meaning of the word (ex. /rato:r/ is a different word than /ra:tor/).
The phonemes are allowed in a syllable are as follows:
- Onset: Any consonant.
- Nucleus: Any vowel, long or short, /m/, and /ɣ/
- Coda: Any consonant, except /kx/
Romanization
| m | /m/ |
| n | /n/ |
| θ | /th/ |
| ð | /dh/ |
| t | /t/ |
| d | /d/ |
| ts | /ts/ |
| s | /s/ |
| r | /r/ |
| l | /l/ |
| tʃ | /ch/ |
| ʃ | /sh |
| k | /k/ |
| g | /g/ |
| kx | /kh/ |
| x | /x/ |
| ɣ | /gh/ |
| h | /h/ |
| ʔ | /'/ |
| i | /i/ |
| ɛ | /e/ |
| a | /a/ |
| u | /u/ |
| o | /o/ |
| i: | /ī/ |
| ɛ: | /ē/ |
| a: | /ā/ |
| u: | /ū/ |
| o: | /ō/ |
Sentence Structure
The word order of Arkothic always follows as subject-verb-object, meaning that the subject of a sentence comes first, followed by the verb, then the object. Adjectives always come after the noun that they modify, while adpositions come before that noun (thus making them prepositions). For possession, the thing being possessed precedes the thing that is possessing it in a sentence.
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