User:Osric the Brash/Dekvu

BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO PUBLISH:
I started writing an article on a conlang I made here but I also noticed that you cant advertise or self promote and have independent sources and I was wondering if posting an article like this would be considered self promotion or not and how I could incorporate independent sources. Osric the Brash (talk) 23:17, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello Osric the Brash. An acceptable Wikipedia article summarizes what published, independent reliable sources say about a topic. If, for example, three prestigious linguistics journals have written about the language you created, then it may also be possible to write a Wikipedia article about it. So, have independent sources covered your language? Lacking such coverage, then your efforts are self promotional and not appropriate for Wikipedia. Please read the guideline about editing with a conflict of interest. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 00:33, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

(ec) @Osric the Brash: I expect it would be difficult for you to write a neutral article on this topic, as it is something you created yourself. But, if you have independent reliable sources establishing notability, and if you disclose the WP:COI, then you can submit your draft for review via WP:AFC, and a non-involved editor can review it. RudolfRed (talk) 00:36, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Dekvu is a conlang created by Wikipedia user Osric the Brash. Dekvu has a unique writing system, loosely resembling something runic and is what the language's creator calls an 'alphabugida'—a cross between an alphabet, where there is a symbol for each consonant and vowel, and an abugida, where the vowels act like diacritics to a consonant. The syllable structure is roughly (C)(V)(C) and while usually a diacritic, vowels are not necessarily attached to a consonant

Lore

Aliens, Vikings, Indigenous Tribes in what is today Eastern Canada, and Lost Crusaders face war, civil war, rebellion, and decay of liberal politics.

IPA

The letters without a link are the transliterated version of each letter. Asterisks indicate the sound is not used on its own and instead is used only in conjunction with other sounds.

Consonants

	Bi­labial	Labio­- dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-­ alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m m			n n
Plosive	p pb b			t td d			k kɡ g	ʔ *
Sibilant fricative				s sz z	ʃ sh
Non-sibilant fricative		f fv v	θ~ð th				x *	h h
Approximant						j y	w w
Tap/flap				ɾ r
Lateral approximant				l l
To the left are unvoiced consonants and to the right are voiced consonants.

The x is only used in [k͡xʷ], transliterated as kw.
The ʔ is only used in [k͡xʷəʔV], transliterated as kwa'{vowel}.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i ë		u u
Near-close	ɪ i
Close-mid	e *		o o
Mid		ə a
Open-mid	ɛ e
Open	a *
Diphthongs	eɪ ä, aɪ ï, ou~u: ou, ju ü
To the left are unrounded vowels and to the right are rounded.

The e and a are only used in diphthongs.

Grammar

Kinda similar to English grammar, but negation, ownership, compounding, conjugation, and antonyms cause the word order to change. Also, no gender as in there is no word for 'sister' or 'brother', only a word meaning 'sibling'.

Examples

In Dekvu, each syllable has its own meaning and can function as a single syllable word. Some individual letters can do this too. Within a word, due to the agglutinative nature of Dekvu, syllables contribute their own meaning into the word as a whole.

Syllables

Dekvu	IPA	transliteration	meaning
	k͡xʷə	kwa	good
	dɛ	de	person
	gɪ	gi	animal
	k	k	(plural form, suffix)
	no	no	(possessive form, prefix)
	vu	vu	speak

Words

Dekvu	IPA	transliteration	meaning
	dɛk	dek	people
	dɛk.vu	dek.vu	the people's tongue (literally people speak)
	k͡xʷə.vu	kwavu	hello
	no.de	node	me/I/slave
	no.gɪ	nogi	my animal