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Thulean is written with the Thulean alphabet. The Thulean government endorses a romanised orthography for the purpose of transliterating Thulean proper names. This orthography is as follows: | Thulean is written with the Thulean alphabet. The Thulean government endorses a romanised orthography for the purpose of transliterating Thulean proper names. This orthography is as follows: | ||
"a" = /A/ | |||
"e" = /E/ | |||
"g" = /N/ | |||
"h" = /M\/ | |||
"i" = /i/ | |||
"j" = /j/ | |||
"k" = /k/ | |||
"l" = /l/ | |||
"m" = /m/ | |||
"n" = /n/ | |||
"p" = /p/ | |||
"q" = /K/ | |||
"r" = /r/ | |||
"s" = /s/ | |||
"t" = /t/ | |||
"u" = /u/ | |||
"v" = /w/ | |||
"x" = /x/ | |||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== |
Revision as of 03:27, 16 February 2017
Introduction
Thulean (endonym: Migkatsi) is spoken by the Selhar people of Thule (endonym: Telku) an island in the North Atlantic, west of Scotland and north of Ireland. The Selhar are a nation of European pygmies or thurses noted for their androgyny and their distinctive striped epidermes. Thulean has approximately 30 million native speakers. The language is agglutinative and polysynthetic with a split intransitive fluid-S morphosyntax. It is a language isolate and has not been proven to be related to any other languages even those of other thurse groups on the European mainland.
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Phonology
Orthography
Thulean is written with the Thulean alphabet. The Thulean government endorses a romanised orthography for the purpose of transliterating Thulean proper names. This orthography is as follows:
"a" = /A/
"e" = /E/
"g" = /N/
"h" = /M\/
"i" = /i/
"j" = /j/
"k" = /k/
"l" = /l/
"m" = /m/
"n" = /n/
"p" = /p/
"q" = /K/
"r" = /r/
"s" = /s/
"t" = /t/
"u" = /u/
"v" = /w/
"x" = /x/
Consonants
NASAL: /m, n, N/
PLOSIVE: /p, t, k/
FRICATIVE: /s, K, x/
LIQUID: /r, l/
APPROXIMANT: /j, M\, w/
Vowels
HIGH: /i, u/
LOW: /E, A/
Prosody
Stress
Primary stress falls within the root. Open syllables are light, closed syllables are heavy. Syllable onset clusters do not close the preceding syllable. If the first syllable of a root is heavy then the primary stress falls there otherwise it falls upon the second syllable of the root.