Neptultchi Language

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.

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/				ch /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

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.

Lexicon English to Neptultchi

A

• address: //your eminence, your lordship, general form of respectful address//trancha
• ark: //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: (beast) xekwa; vb //to carry, as of a wagon or beasts of burden// kallke
• bed: ontli
• bird: chihoa
• black: llax
• black marble: chalitsil
• blood: ya’atl
• bone: kereks
• book: kumpa
• borrow vb: tsampawe
• bread, food: nancha (bread made from Neptultchi grain)
• breathe vb: plla, plla'a

C

• cat: chauchetsl
• cenote (sinkhole, ‘hack’): kumpu
• chief, ruler: chempet
• commoner: nanchatsúl, //commoners as a class// nanchachi
• coral: ksape
• cut vb: tllee

D

• dead: //substantive plural// mauhwe
• dear: //honorific post-positively, used with children and women of a higher caste// hana
• deceitful, wily, tricky: aka
• divinity, lesser: kahi’a
• dog: eotsur
• dragon: itse
• dragon egg: itsetlwa, tlakontl
• dragonmount rider: itsellaxchu, //individual// itsellaxchutsúl, //caste// itsellaxchuchi
• drug: //given to ithrabbi// tsatsunkalló
• dust: chahwe
• dwarf: tsahakumen; twatl; tsontsomuche

E

• earth: tsunka
• earth demon: kumen, creature of the earth
• egg: tlwa; //dragon// itsetlwa, tlakontl
• elf: heher

F

• female (human, humanlike): nexwe, (ithrabbi) tslulp
• finger: tsep
• fire: ankuche
• fish: itsiche
• fish-hook: naktsa
• fishman (ithrabbi): ixuk, see also tslulp
• food, meal: //bread for commoners, synonymous for food// nancha
• foot: , //webbed hand or foot of Ithrabbi// hwalla
• forest: kakamu
• frog: kulka

G

• Geddamin: kumen
• Geddamin stasis sarcophagus: kumenontli 'giant bed, bed for a giant'
• gemstone: tsepet
• giant: peka’a
• gishak: kulkatsúl
• gnome: oronche
• gold: tsontso; //lover of gold, dwarf// tsontsomuche
• goblin: akakumen
• god: qallá, //likeness of a god// xche, ixche, //lesser divinity// kahi'a
• godself, higher self: naha’a
• grain: aleotl; anch

H

• hand: li, //webbed hand or foot of Ithrabbi// hwalla
• head: qweex
• heart: estsl, //of a divinity or god// nwaptl
• hook: //fish-hook// naktsa
• human: matsi

I

• ice, snow: tstli
• ithrabbi: ixuk

J

K

• king: //used exclusively for king of Neptultchi// qu'laptsutsúl
• knife: peke
• knight: llaxchu, //dragonknight// itsellaxchu
• knot: hepwa

L

• lamp: pechwa
• lance-holder (dragonmount): tlasachtso
• leaf: ipllé
• lentils: chuuka
• light: tsir
• linen: tsaan
• lizardman, lizardfolk: itsetsúl
• leopard: keme'o
• lord: chankra; //honorific address// chankratsúl
• love vb: ; //lover of// -muche

M

• magical energy life force: ta’a
• maiden: //virgin// chwatlak
• man, male: ptsu
• mountain: tsaha

N

• nothing: metsel //used to negate transitive verbs without a stated object//

O

• offspring: //of monsters// tsinche, //compare// ixuktsinche
• one: pehe
• organchan vorax: hwaku

P

• people (ethnonym): chi, compare Neptultchi, 'people of the god Naptúlt'
• person, creature: tsúl //of humanlikes//
• place of: -tli
• platter: ontaks
• potion: //death potion given to queen// qohono

Q

• queen: xixá, //spirit of dead queen// tehukral

R

• reins (dragonmount): aptlunka
• ride vb: kaspi, //of dragonmount knights on drakelings// llohi
• ridge of mountains: kema'a
• robe: tsaltsalk
• ruler, chief: chepet

S

• sacred fire: tlentwe
• sacred grove: chaqa
• saddle (dragonmount): tsankwekwe
• saddle blanket (dragonmount): puxtsu
• salmon: atsllá
• scale: //dragon, fish// tsecheo
• sea: naptul, naptult (god)
• seawater: omone'e
• seaweed: tsesto
• see: yanti
• serf: nanchatsúl 'person of the bread'
• serf caste: nanchachi 'people of the bread'
• shell: //sea// oroto; //turtle shell shield used by ithrabbi minions// tsa'a'ea
• shield: //turtle shell shield used by ithrabbi minions// tsa'a'ea
• silver: kohonti
• sky: hwotl
• sleep: qaal; ururu
• snow: chahwetsli [chahwe+ tsli]
• soul: naha’a
• sound: tir
• spawn n: tsinche
• speak vb: ton
• spear point: tsoke
• sphere: tsokal
• spirit, heart of a lesser god: yame’e
• spirit of dead queens: tehukral
• spirit of deceased dragonmount knights: yarehyarak
• squid: qllutsinche
• staff head: hauchtsiltsa, Neptultchi Staff Head, the head of a staff made of warlock silver, used by Neptulchi necromancers
• stone: tim; //earthstone, sacred to telluric and earthen divinities// xepek
• sun: kara

T

• token, sign: tluncho
• tool: //suffix// +tsa
• tooth: tur
• troll: timyanti
• tunic: laleqa
• two: rem

U

• underworld: qetmektli (Amosgire Hills), "place of Qetmek"

V

• valley: eqa'o
• vessel: //magical// ochyá
• vine: etlikwe
• virgin: chwatlak

W

• walk, go: pahupahu
• warrior-priest: //one of the five major castes of the Neptultchi// tchontitsúl
• water: kapa
• wing: kwenkwe
• wizard, sorcerer: tsopaltl
• wolf: kancha
• woman, female: nexwe

X

Y

Z

Syntax

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

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.

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

See Also

• Dragonmount Cant
• Neptultchi Civilization
• Neptultchi Place-Names