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The Neptultchi language bears no recognizable relationship to the Gwenyan Languages or any other ancient language in the Pallathantic region. Neptultchi is the parent of the Xsyte Language and the Tuadbe Languages.

It borrows from the tongue of the ancient Malesggite civilization, but is otherwise distinct. Ancient Neptultchi was the language of the Empire of the Neptultchi Dragon Folk Kings and the surrounding tribes. When the empire collapsed, the fleeing Tuadbe continued to speak their ancestral tongue and today several dialects are spoken in the forest of northwest Pytharnia.

Neptultchi Phonology

The Neptultchi language has no voiced sibilants or stops and fricative sounds like 'f,' 'v,' and 'th,' or their voiced counterparts are completely foreign to it.

Neptultchi Language Sounds

Neptultchi vowels
	Front		Central		Back
	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long
High	i	iː			u	uː
Mid	e	eː			o	oː
Low			a	aː

Neptultchi consonants
	Bilabial		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
	Plain	Implosive	Plain	Ejective	Plain	Ejective	Plain	Ejective	Plain	Ejective	Plain
Oral stops	p /p/	b /ɓ/	t /t/	t' /tʼ/	tj /tʲ/	tj' /tʲʼ/	k /k/	k' /kʼ/	q /q/	q' /qʼ/	' /ʔ/
Affricates			ts /ʦ/	ts' /ʦʼ/	tx /ʧ/	tx' /ʧʼ/
Fricative			s /s/		x /ʃ/				qh /χ/		h /h/
Nasals	m /m/		n /n/				n, g /ŋ/
Liquids			l /l/ r /r/		ll /ɬ/
Glides					j /j/		w /w/

Phonotactics

Onset

p, pt, pʦ, ʧ, tl, kt, ktl, sʦ, sʧ, ks, kʃ, ʦl, ʦtl, ʃʧ, ʦm, sχ, ʦj, kj, pj, tw, kw, ʦw, tlw, ʧw, qw, tɬ, kl, kɬ, ktɬ, sp, ʃt, ʃtl,

Nucleus

vowels dipthongs: au, ai, ei, eo

Coda

coda only: mp, mb, nt, nʦ, nʧ, ŋk, Nq, ntl; lp, lt, lk, lʃ, lʦ, lʦl, rsp

Lexicon English to Neptultchi

A: address your eminence, your lordship, general form of respectful address trancha; ark n sacred box about three to four meters high and two meters wide, elaborately ornamented, born on table carried by eight ithrabbi slaves, the ark holds the sacred image of a god Ixchekallkeochyá
B: bear n beast xekwa; vb to carry, as of a wagon or beasts of burden kallke; bed n ontli; bird n chihoa; black n llax [ɬaʃ]; black marble n chalitsil; blood n ya’atl; bone n kereks; book n kumpa; borrow vb tsampawe; bread, food n nancha (bread made from Neptultchi grain); breathe vb plla, plla'a
C: cat n chauchetsl; cenote (sinkhole, ‘hack’) n kumpu; chief, ruler n chempet; commoner n nanchatsúl, commoners as a class nanchachi; coral n ksape; cut vb tllee
D: dead n substantive plural mauhwe; dear n honorific post-positively, used with children and women of a higher caste hana; deceitful, wily, tricky n aka; divinity, lesser n kahi’a; dog n eotsur; dragon: itse; dragon egg n itsetlwa, tlakontl; dragonmount rider n itsellaxchu, [iʦeɬaʃʧu] individual itsellaxchutsúl, [iʦeɬaʃʧuʦul] caste itsellaxchuchi; drug n given to ithrabbi tsatsunkalló; dust n chahwe; dwarf n tsahakumen; twatl; tsontsomuche
E: earth n tsunka; earth demon n kumen, creature of the earth; egg n tlwa; dragon itsetlwa, tlakontl; elf n heher
F: female (human, humanlike) n nexwe, (ithrabbi) tslulp; finger n tsep; fire n ankuche; fish n itsiche; fish-hook n naktsa; fishman ithrabbi n ixuk, see also tslulp; food, meal n bread for commoners, synonymous for food nancha; foot n webbed hand or foot of Ithrabbi hwalla; forest n kakamu; frog n kulka
G: Geddamin n kumen; Geddamin stasis sarcophagus n kumenontli 'giant bed, bed for a giant'; gemstone n tsepet; giant n peka’a; gishak n kulkatsúl; gnome n oronche; gold n tsontso; lover of gold, dwarf tsontsomuche; goblin n akakumen; god n qallá, likeness of a god xche, ixche, lesser divinity kahi'a; godself, higher self n naha’a; grain n aleotl; anch
H: hand n li, webbed hand or foot of Ithrabbi hwalla; head n qweex; heart n estsl, of a divinity or god nwaptl; hook n fish-hook naktsa; human n matsi
I: ice, snow n tstli; ithrabbi n ixuk
J
K: king n used exclusively for king of Neptultchi qu'laptsutsúl; knife n peke; knight n llaxchu, dragonknight itsellaxchu; knot n hepwa
L: lamp n pechwa; lance-holder dragonmount n tlasachtso; leaf n ipllé; lentils n chuuka; light n tsir; linen n tsaan; lizardman, lizardfolk n itsetsúl; leopard n keme'o; lord n chankra; honorific address chankratsúl; love vb ; lover of -muche
M: magical energy life force n ta’a; maiden n virgin chwatlak; man, male n ptsu; mountain n tsaha
N: nothing n metsel used to negate transitive verbs without a stated object
O: offspring n of monsters tsinche, compare ixuktsinche; one n pehe; organchan vorax n hwaku
P: people ethnonym n chi, compare Naptultchi, 'people of the god Naptúlt'; person, creature n tsúl of humanlikes; place of n -tli; platter n ontaks; potion n death potion given to queen qohono
Q: queen n xixá, spirit of dead queen tehukral
R: reins dragonmount n aptlunka; ride vb kaspi, of dragonmount knights on drakelings llohi; ridge of mountains n kema'a; robe n tsaltsalk; ruler, chief n chepet
S: sacred fire n tlentwe; sacred grove n chaqa; saddle (dragonmount) n tsankwekwe; saddle blanket (dragonmount) n puxtsu; salmon n atsllá; scale n dragon, fish tsecheo; sea n naptul, naptult (god); seawater n omone'e; seaweed n tsesto; see vb yanti; serf n nanchatsúl 'person of the bread'; serf caste n nanchachi 'people of the bread'; shell n sea oroto; turtle shell shield used by ithrabbi minions tsa'a'ea; shield n turtle shell shield used by ithrabbi minions tsa'a'ea; silver n kohonti; sky n hwotl; sleep n qaal; ururu; snow n chahwetsli [chahwe+ tsli]; soul n naha’a; sound n n tir; spawn n tsinche; speak vb ton; spear point n tsoke; sphere n tsokal; spirit, heart of a lesser god n yame’e; spirit of dead queens n tehukral; spirit of deceased dragonmount knights n yarehyarak; squid n qllutsinche; staff head n hauchtsiltsa, Neptultchi Staff Head, the head of a staff made of warlock silver, used by Neptulchi necromancers; stone n tim; earthstone, sacred to telluric and earthen divinities xepek; sun n kara
T: ten thousand ten thousand years n epektl; token, sign n tluncho; tool n suffix +tsa; tooth n tur; troll n timyanti; tunic n laleqa; two n rem
U: underworld n qetmektli (Amosgire Hills), "place of Qetmek"
V: valley n eqa'o; vessel n magical ochyá; vine n etlikwe; virgin n chwatlak
W: walk, go vb pahupahu; warrior-priest n one of the five major castes of the Neptultchi tchontitsúl; water n kapa; wing n kwenkwe; wizard, sorcerer n tsopaltl; wolf n kancha; woman, female n nexwe
X
Y
Z

Morphology

verb roots with meaning that requires or implies a direct object ends in -i or in -e. -otl: suffix that signifies the direct object of a transitive verb, a kind of pronoun

-monche: added to nouns of person or doer, signifies person is presently or only temporarily such a person

lle: telicity particle, indicated telic predicate, follows verb or precedes object/indirect object

Syntax

agglutinative polysynthetic

Neptultchi Language Glyphs

Neptultchi language is written using a vast system of glyphs, some of which are ideograms and some of which are syllabary.

The Neptultchi Glyph for the Eye of Hersp. Hersp was the god of the Ithrabbi.

proposed system for transcribing Neptultchi phonetically into sound glyphs

p b = mp m w t d = nt n l ll = v f = tl r s z = ts c = tsh j = ntsh y x = sh k g = nk q ‘ h

Phonology Brainstorm

teoticakal pahutaga wacuka sagulabi aji xekes napu taxfi taxakodi xak panulof saji kojof [konchotl] qapu teku mikal zipowadu qonari agoma nabwa napwa mikaleof teof [teotl] hezwokopf [hetzuocoptl] kekechempo nau tanwa naukupestl morekal kapan facfe [tlachtle] yame’e zalako [tzalaco] zla’af [tzla’atl] [chauchetzl] kapoa tohoakli nahwam cakaadi lehuki lehulehukipcha Oronchetzeptli Kwalinextzeptli

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