Akridian

Akridian (Standard Akridian: ⠮⠒⠧⠉⠗⠭⠒, tr. nkxépči) is a group of similar languages or dialects spoken by the akridians of the Arega Desert. A formalised form, Standardised Akridian, is used for communication between the hives and between akridians and non-akridians.
The akridians that arrived in the Arega in the 2380s initially belonged to a single hive and spoke a single language. The hive began to fracture in the early 25^th century, and with it the language began to diverge very rapidly as new hives coalesced, before stabilising into several lects as the new hives themselves stabilised.
By their physiology, akridians can make a wide variety of consonant sounds, but no pulmonic consonants; as such they are also unable to make proper vowel sounds, and the "vowel" sounds assigned to their speech are assigned as they sound to human ears. Because of this limitation, while they have a wide breadth of consonantal sounds, their vowel range is only in the close front range, and they cannot round; as such the only vowels present in akridian speech are a high, mid, and low vowel that can take various qualities in free variation. Because their con- sonants are non-pulmonic, and many of them impossible to replicate with human or anthro- poid physiology, general approximations of the closest "human" sound are given in IPA representation.
Akridian has three tones: high, mid and low. Tone is constant through the syllable and there is not rising or falling. Many sounds in Akridian are created by stridulation, and the speed of this stridulation can be modulated to produce the proper tone.

Akridian

⠮⠒⠧⠉⠗⠭⠒
_(nkxépči)

Pronunciation: [ŋ̍k!épʼtɕʼi]
Ethnicity: Aregan akridians
Language Family:
Language isolate

Consonants

"Vowels"