Anbirese
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Anglo-Swedo-Icelando-Sino-Korean jokelang; include a xenic layer from a Pama-Nyungan-like language Dårle
Use "Fljeongmjeongths" somewhere
Flijeon River
Andaegol
Mjeolnir 'big hammer' -- hammer that periodically destroys the world (Sino-Korean myeol 'to wipe out') in Anbirese mythology?
Mjeolbon 'Melbourne'
brjedjeong
sjeong - sky, skjeong - to clean
Daerjeong-eup: town located where our timeline's Dwellingup is
Final stops have a distinction between nasally released vs. unreleased (-mm -nn -nng vs. -p -t -k)
stje /ɕé/ 'money' skjö /skjœ̂/ 'rope'
Phonology
Consonants
- k g ng /kʰ k ŋ/
- kj/tj gj/dj nj /tɕʰ tɕ ɕ ɲ/
- t d þ n /tʰ t θ n/
- p b f v m /pʰ p f v~w m/
- s sj stj h /s ɧ ɕ h/
- r l -d j /ɾ l ð j/
[w] is an allophone of hard /v/ after consonants.
/t d tʰ s z n/ are dental(ized).
Vowels
Anbirese has 7 vowel phonemes. ni ti thi ki di gi are read as nji tji thji kji dji gji.
Front | Central | Back | ||
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unrounded | rounded | |||
Close | i /i/ | u /ü/ | eu [ɨ] | o /o~u/ |
Mid | ae, e /e̞/ | ö /ø~œ/ | eo [ə] | eo /ʌ~ɔ/ |
Open | a /ɐ/ |