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 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.
-->
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/
<j> = /j/
<k> = /k/
<l> = /l/
<m> = /m/
<n> = /n/
= /p/
= /K/
<r> = /r/
= /s/
<t> = /t/
= /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.