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| colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced labiodental approximant|ʋ]] || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced alveolar lateral approximant|l]] | | colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced labiodental approximant|ʋ]] || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced alveolar lateral approximant|l]] || colspan="2" | || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced palatal approximant|j]] | ||
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! [[w:Tap and flap consonants|Tap]] | ! [[w:Tap and flap consonants|Tap]] | ||
| colspan="2" | || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced alveolar tap|ɾ]] | | colspan="2" | || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced alveolar tap|ɾ]] | ||
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* /ɳ, l/ only occur in loanwords. | |||
*/s/ is realized as [h] word-finally. | |||
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! [[w:Close vowel|High]] | ! [[w:Close vowel|High]] | ||
| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]] iː ĩ || [[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]] uː ũ | | [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]] iː ĩ ĩː || [[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]] uː ũ ũː | ||
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! [[w:Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]] | ! [[w:Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]] | ||
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! [[w:Open vowel|Low]] | ! [[w:Open vowel|Low]] | ||
| [[w:Near-open central vowel|ɐ]] ɐ̃ || [[w:Open back unrounded vowel|ɑː]] | | [[w:Near-open central vowel|ɐ]] ɐ̃ || [[w:Open back unrounded vowel|ɑː]] ɑ̃ː | ||
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| ɐi aːi || ɐu ɑːu | |||
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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
Revision as of 21:32, 25 August 2024
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Note: the Devanagari is just a placeholder.
| Old Rulhilli | |
|---|---|
| रुधिरदि | |
| Pronunciation | [ɾuˈd̪ʱiɾɐd̪i] |
| Created by | Dillon Hartwig |
| Date | 2021 |
| Setting | northern Bangladesh |
Sino-Tibetan
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Early form | |
Old Rulhilli /rulˈhɪli/ (Old Rulhilli: रुधिरदि [ɾuˈd̪ʱiɾɐd̪i]) is a Sinitic language spoken near northern Bangladesh.
Etymology
Rulhilli is from रुल्हिळ्ळि, from Old Rulhilli रुधिरदि, from Sanskrit रुधिरायानद्याः referring to the Brahmaputra river.
Orthography
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | |||||
| Stop | p pʰ | b bʱ | t tʰ | d dʱ | ʈ ʈʰ | ɖ ɖʱ | t͡ɕ t͡ɕʰ | d͡ʑ d͡ʑʱ | k kʰ | g gʱ |
| Fricative | s | ʂ | ɕ | ɦ | ||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | l | j | |||||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||||||
- /ɳ, l/ only occur in loanwords.
- /s/ is realized as [h] word-finally.
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i iː ĩ ĩː | u uː ũ ũː |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛː | ɔ ɔː |
| Low | ɐ ɐ̃ | ɑː ɑ̃ː |
| ɐi aːi | ɐu ɑːu |
Prosody
Rulhilli stress falls on the last historically heavy (containing a long vowel or coda) syllable, or last syllable if there are no heavy syllables.
Phonotactics
Rulhilli maximal syllables are
Morphology
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Negation
Numerals
Syntax
Constituent order
Rulhilli word order is predominantly SOV but flexible.