Iquis

Iquis (Iquis: Ikʷīsyiz Tīaton [ɪˈkʷisjɪz ˈtiɐtɔn]; Ikʷīs [ɪˈkʷis]), officially Coalition Interstellar Iquis (Iquis: Ōyintānyiz Zīmoz Ikʷīsyiz Tīaton [ojɪnˈtɑnjɪz ˈzimɔz ɪˈkʷisjɪz ˈtiɐtɔn]), is a language spoken mainly in the Coalition of Allied Star Systems.

History

The earliest ancestor of Iquis is reconstructed to be the Earth language Proto-Icnotic A, its endonym attested as ikofois and romanized as Icophois. By the 3rd century AAI, Proto-Icnotic A began to display signs of change, morphing fully into Old Iquis by the turn of the millennium.

Old Iquis, spoken mainly on the worlds of Incognita V and Heva, is the earliest well-attested stage of the Iquis language, in which a large of amount of literature was published. Old Iquis continues to be influential in the development of the modern Iquis language, as a large amount of specialist vocabulary are derived from Old Iquis.

Phonology

	labial	dental	palatal	velar	velar (lab.)	uvular	uvular (lab.)	glottal	glottal (lab.)
nasal	m	n		ŋ	ŋʷ
plosive	p (b)	t (d)		k (g)	kʷ (gʷ)	q	qʷ	ʔ	ʔʷ
fricative	(f) (v)	s z	ʃ (ʒ)					h	hʷ
affricate		ts (dz)	tʃ (dʒ)
trill		r
approximant		(l)	j	w

Notes:

Phonemes in brackets are found in loanwords, learned borrowings from Old Iquis, and onomatopoeia.

	front		central		back
	tense	lax	tense	lax	tense	lax
close	ī /i/	i /ɪ/			(ū /u/)	(u /ʊ/)
mid	ē /e/	e /ɛ/	ə /ə/		ō /o/	o /ɔ/
open			ā /ɑ/	a /ɐ/