Séiseal/Music

Séiseal/Music
Pradjuul
Created by	IlL
Setting	Hussmauch
Native speakers	60 million (2200 v.C.)
Language family	Tie–Dye Tie Séiseal/Music

Séiseal/Music is a Wiebospheric classical language in the Tie family. It is intended to be a Khmer-like language with a palatalization distinction in consonants.

Numbers:

• 1: *can
• 2: *ʔajr
• 3: *ʔəfuut
• 4: *gʉʉʔ
• 5: *seŋr
• 6: ŧjìit
• 7: ktjèe
• 8: *tnuaʔ
• 9: *ŋiat
• 10: *sraat
• 100: *jeŋʔ

Phonology

Consonants

PTie *ɲ- > j word-initially, nʲ- otherwise if not word-final, -n word-final

Consonant phonemes of Pradjuul

		Labial		Alveolar		"Click"		Palatal	Velar	Glottal
		plain	pal.	plain	pal.	plain	pal.	pal.	plain	plain	pal.
Nasal		m m	mj mʲ	n n̪	nj nʲ	ꞥ ŋ!	ꞥj ŋ!ʲ	ŋj ɲ	ŋ ŋ
Stop	plain	p p	pj pʲ	t t̪	tj tʲ	ŧ !	ŧj !ʲ	kj c	k k	ʔ ʔ	ʔj ʔʲ
	implosive	b ɓ	bj ɓʲ	d ɗ	dj ɗʲ
Affricate				ts t̪͡s̪	tsj t͡sʲ
Fricative	voiceless	f f	fj fʲ	s s̪	sj sʲ	sh ʃ	shj ʃʲ	xj, hj ç	x x	h h
	voiced	v v	vj vʲ
Approximant				l ɫ̪	lj lʲ			y j
Trill				r r	rj rʲ

Allowed finals: p t k m n ng l r y w h ʔ /p t k m n ŋ ɫ̪ r j w h ʔ/

Vowels

i ʉ u e ɵ o a iː ʉː uː eː ɵː oː aː iə ʉə uə

(In Pradjuul > 'i 'u u i 'ə ə a 'iː 'uː uː iː 'əː aː 'aː 'iə 'uə uə)

Vowel phonemes

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i /i/	ii /iː/			u /u/	uu /uː/
Mid			e /ə/	ee /əː/
Open			a /a/	aa /aː/

Diphthongs: ia ua /iə uə/

Register

A stressed vowel may be in the clear register or the breathy register. In this article the breathy register is marked with a grave accent: tsjàang /t͡sʲa̤ːŋ/ 'father'.