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Thulean or Migkatsi is essentially an elflang. It's designed to be easy for me to pronounce but as syntactically unlike English, my L1, as I can bear. In universe it is spoken by a population of European pygmies, the Thuleans or Selhar who live on Telku, an island in the North Atlantic, located where the Rockall Plateau is in our world. | Thulean or Migkatsi is essentially an elflang. It's designed to be easy for me to pronounce but as syntactically unlike English, my L1, as I can bear. In universe it is spoken by a population of European pygmies, the Thuleans or Selhar, who live on Thule or Telku, an island in the North Atlantic, located where the Rockall Plateau is in our world. | ||
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==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
Thulean or Migkatsi (literally: this thing of ours) is spoken by the Selhar people of Thule | Thulean or Migkatsi (literally: this thing of ours but not yours) is spoken by the Selhar people of Thule or Telku an island in the North Atlantic. It is a polysynthetic SOV language with a split intransitive fluid-S morphosyntactic alignment. | ||
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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
Thulean is written in the Thulean alphabet but there is also an official scheme of romanisation which is endorsed by the Thulean government. The romanised 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=== | |||
BILABIAL: /m, p/ | |||
CENTRAL ALVEOLAR: /n, t, s, r/ | |||
LATERAL ALVEOLAR: /K, l/ | |||
PALATAL: /j/ | |||
PLAIN VELAR: /N, k, x, M\/ | |||
LABIALISED VELAR: /w/ | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
HIGH: /i, u/ | |||
LOW: /E, A/ | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
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===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
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Latest revision as of 23:23, 15 February 2017
Thulean or Migkatsi is essentially an elflang. It's designed to be easy for me to pronounce but as syntactically unlike English, my L1, as I can bear. In universe it is spoken by a population of European pygmies, the Thuleans or Selhar, who live on Thule or Telku, an island in the North Atlantic, located where the Rockall Plateau is in our world.
Introduction
Thulean or Migkatsi (literally: this thing of ours but not yours) is spoken by the Selhar people of Thule or Telku an island in the North Atlantic. It is a polysynthetic SOV language with a split intransitive fluid-S morphosyntactic alignment.
Phonology
Orthography
Thulean is written in the Thulean alphabet but there is also an official scheme of romanisation which is endorsed by the Thulean government. The romanised 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
BILABIAL: /m, p/ CENTRAL ALVEOLAR: /n, t, s, r/ LATERAL ALVEOLAR: /K, l/ PALATAL: /j/ PLAIN VELAR: /N, k, x, M\/ LABIALISED VELAR: /w/
Vowels
HIGH: /i, u/ LOW: /E, A/