Svele
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| Svele | |
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| Pronunciation | [[...ˈ...]] |
| Created by | Veno |
| Setting | Alt-Earth |
| Native speakers | ~2,000,000~ () |
Pangaean Code
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Early form | Proto-Svalic
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Svele is a svalic language in the Panjwanese language family, mainly spoken in Central Jawass. [...]
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David Sankoff's On the Rate of Replacement of Word-Meaning Relationships
X → Y ⧸ _({ A // B })C
Svele is "slavo-germanic-sounding". Its left-most syllable is stressed and lengthened while unstressed vowels are reduced.
ktonzt illengred
nagdele "sea"
neivele "sword"
leigeverin "heaven"
ungrevir leiklisch "lizard"
lugelpuz
rich inventory of sibilants
ch /ɕ/
zh /t͡ɕ/
sch /ʃ/
zch /t͡ʃ/
s /s/
z /t͡s/
ss /ɕʃs/
jawess /ˈi̯aːwəɕʃs/
svhalzche /svaːlt͡ʃə/
vheivele /ˈvaːɪ̯fələ/
svhalzepur
- morphomes are by rule ultrafusional
- vowel reduction is present
- consonant clusters
- segments cannot be pronounced in isolation, but fit within a specific grammatical, contextual, and lexical function influencing the whole phrase
- every word is a phrase
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