Occidental Unicornic is dialect continuum spoken by unicorns in the western and central portions of their range.
Like most unicorn languages, it is characterized phonetically by an abundance of contrasting places of articulation and few vowels. It is a agglutinative language with tripartite morphosyntactic alignment and an unmarked word order subject-object-verb.
Voicing is not significant. E.g. a whispering unicorn will use the corresponding voiceless sounds.
IPA |
Phoneme |
Transliteration |
i |
i |
|
e |
e |
|
a |
a |
|
ð |
voiced dental fricative |
s |
ð̪ |
voiced dentialveolar fricative |
sh |
z |
voiced alveolar fricative |
z |
d͡z |
voiced alveolar affricate |
dz |
d |
voiced alveolar plosive |
d |
n |
voiced alveolar nasal |
n |
ʝ |
voiced palatal fricative |
j |
ɟ͡ʝ |
voiced palatal affricate |
cj |
ɟ |
voiced palatal plosive |
c |
ɲ |
voiced palatal nasal |
nj |
ʝ̠ |
voiced retracted palatal fricative |
jh |
ɟ̠ʝ̠ |
voiced retracted palatal affricate |
cjh |
ɟ̠ |
voiced retracted palatal plosive |
ch |
ɣ |
voiced velar fricative |
x |
ɡ͡ɣ |
voiced velar affricate |
gx |
g |
voiced velar plosive |
g |
ŋ |
voiced velar nasal |
ng |
ʁ |
voiced uvular fricative |
h |
ɢʁ |
voiced uvular affricate |
qh |
ɢ |
voiced uvular plosive |
q |
ʕ |
voiced pharyngeal fricative |
w |
- |
first hornsound |
1 |
- |
first hornstop |
1' |
- |
second hornsound |
2 |
- |
third hornsound |
3 |
- |
third hornstop |
3' |
- |
fourth hornsound |
4 |
- |
fifth hornsound |
5 |