Jakvalat
Introduction
Goals
To create an aesthetically pleasing, yet easily pronounceable, language for the setting of a habitable alternative Venus.
Setting
The setting is a Venus with a thinner crust which enables convection of heat within the planet's core and, despite Venus' slower rotation, the subsequent generation of a magnetic field sufficient to prevent the loss of the planet's oceans.
Common Venerian (ComVen: Lanakwa) is the predominant lingua franca spoken on Venus (ComVen: Lhinla). It originated from the environs of the mercantile city of Suliriyal on the continent of Yehadramit.
Inspirations
Phonology
Orthography
| Native Script | Practical Orthography | IPA |
| ⟨o⟩ | ⟨p⟩ | /p/ |
| ⟨ɵ⟩ | ⟨ph⟩ | /f/ |
| ⟨c⟩ | ⟨b⟩ | /b/ |
| ⟨ɔ⟩ | ⟨m⟩ | /m/ |
| ⟨s⟩ | ⟨w⟩ | /w/ |
| ⟨v⟩ | ⟨t⟩ | /t/ |
| ⟨ʌ⟩ | ⟨th⟩ | /θ/ |
| ⟨w⟩ | ⟨d⟩ | /d/ |
| ⟨ʍ⟩ | ⟨n⟩ | /n/ |
| ⟨x⟩ | ⟨s⟩ | /s/ |
| ⟨ɴ⟩ | ⟨r⟩ | /ɹ/ |
| ⟨ɛ⟩ | ⟨x⟩ | /ɬ/ |
| ⟨ɜ⟩ | ⟨l⟩ | /l/ |
| ⟨n⟩ | ⟨k⟩ | /k/ |
| ⟨u⟩ | ⟨kh⟩ | /x/ |
| ⟨m⟩ | ⟨ɡ⟩ | /ɡ/ |
| ⟨ɯ⟩ | ⟨q⟩ | /ŋ/ |
| ⟨ʜ⟩ | ⟨y⟩ | /j/ |
| ⟨z⟩ | ⟨h⟩ | /h/ |
Consonants
| Labial | Central Coronal | Lateral Coronal | Dorsal | Glottal | |
| Plosive | |||||
| -voiceless | /p/ | /t/ | /k/ | ||
| -voiced | /b/ | /d/ | /ɡ/ | ||
| Fricative | |||||
| -sibilant | /s/ | /ɬ/ | |||
| -spirant | /f/ | /θ/ | /x/ | ||
| -aspirate | /h/ | ||||
| Sonorant | |||||
| -nasal | /m/ | /n/ | /ŋ/ | ||
| -lateral | /l/ | ||||
| Approximant | |||||
| -rhotic | /ɹ/ | ||||
| -semivowel | /w/ | /j/ |