Baphian language

Baphian (Bafi tilia [bafi tɪɹjɜ]) is a language spoken throughout much of Ukilen and Brausia and the rest of the world. It is the language of majority and an official language in Baphia, as well as official minority languages in Union, Cring, and Jkawi. It's also an unofficial minority language in Sunteria, Kgokkonitlag, and Azkali.

History

The history of Baphian is several millennia long and

Phonology

	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Laryngeal
Nasal	m	n	ŋ
Plosive	p b	t d	k g	ʔ*
Affricate			tɕ dʑ
Fricative	f v	ð	x	h
Silibant		s z	ɕ ʑ
Approx.	w	ɺ, ɭ	j

*Only used by loan words and onomatopoeia

	Front	N. Front	Central	Back
Close	i			u
N. Close	ɪ	ɘ		ʊ
Mid	e		ə	o
N. Open	ɛ	ɜ		ɔ
Open	a			ɑ

Orthography

Baphian is near exclusively written in Ukilen logographs and rarely mixed with Noellastani alphabet. Noellastani alphabet is usually only used for grammatical constructions, names, both of places and people, and onomatopoeia, but even in some cases the logography covers these.

Romanisation

IPA	NLS	Latin
m	M	m
n	N	n
ŋ	Ñ	ng
p	P	p
b	B	b
t	T	t
d	D	d
k	K	k
g	G	g
ʔ*	;	'
ɕ	Ś	sh
ʑ	ZH	zh
tɕ	C	c
dʑ	JH	j
f	F	f, ph*
v	V	v
ð	DH	dh
x	X	kh
h	H	h
s	S	s
z	Z	z
w	W	w, v
ɺ, ɭ	R	l, r*
j	J	y

Romanisation

IPA	NLS	Latin
i	I	i
ɪ	I	i
e	E	e
ɛ	E	e
a	A	a
u	U	u
ʊ	Ü	ü
o	O	o
ɔ	Ó	ó
ɑ	Á	á
ɘ	É	é
ɜ	È	è
ə	Ë	ë

*Only used by loan words, historical reasons and onomatopoeia

Vocabulary

Baphian has 2 major sources of nonnative vocabulary that can be directly attested, a lot of colloquial words are from Jkawi due to the huge influence from both the language and Shidamism, as well as from Jyosti, due to cultural significance of both the language and islands of Jyosti. There are minor borrowings from Kzmr, Azkali and Loremese as well, usually only dialectally, for example Turku Baphian has many borrowings from Azkali due to the large influence from both the language and culture of the city, while Bongsibon Baphian has many Loremese borrowings due to trade.