Thulean

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 noted for their androgyny and their distinctive striped epidermes. Thulean has approximately 30 million native speakers.

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Phonology

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.