Auralian

Auralian
Ourolilhónh
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|ɔʊ̯ruliˈʎuːɲ]]
Created by	Lili21
Date	Feb 2018
Setting	Calémere
Ethnicity	Auralians
Native speakers	210,000,000 (2312)
Language family	Evandorian languages Southern Evandorian Auralian

Auralian (Ourolilhónh or linurỳ ourolilhónh [linyˈrɪ ɔʊ̯ruliˈʎuːɲ]]) is an Evandorian language of Calémere, belonging to the Southern Evandorian branch and therefore related to Nivarese, Gazimyük, and the Agrôkian languages. It is the native language of the country of Auralia (endonym Ourolilh [ɔʊ̯ruˈliʎ]) in Southern Evandor and the country's role in the colonization era means that Auralian is also the main language in many countries around the planet, including, notably, the Republic of Zeure [ˈzøːre], the most populated country on Púríton (Purït [pyˈriːt]).

It is the third most spoken Evandorian language (after Cerian and Nordulaki) and the sixth most spoken overall (Chlouvānem and Spocian have more speakers). As a Southern Evandorian language, it shares traits typical to that family, such as the existence of a construct state, but, alone in its branch, it lacks articles. It has also one of the most conservative nominal morphologies among living Evandorian languages, having evolved one more case (the instrumental) and retaining all five Proto-Evandorian cases, the only living Evandorian language to do so.

External History

Auralia, as a name, is somewhat newer than Ceria or Nordûlik, probably dating after 2010 or 2011 (as Skyrdagor or Nivaren). However, for the conlang itself, I did not know which aesthetic to follow. The first time I tried it looked very Greek, but, as I already had Greek inspiration for Nivarese, I decided to differentiate it more. Second time, almost a Dutch giblang... nice, but too giblangy to work. The third time I decided to introduce a Ligurian aesthetic, and I finally decided to develop it all on this. So there are four languages that influenced most of my Auralian aesthetic choices: Ligurian, Occitan, Ukrainian, and European Portuguese - the latter two more in certain phonological or diachronical aspects.

Phonology

Consonants

→ PoA ↓ Manner		Labial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Alveolopalatal Palatal	Velar
Nasals		m m		n n	nh ɲ
Plosives	Voiceless	p p		t t		k k
	Voiced	b [b]		d d		g ɡ*
Affricates				tz ts	č tʃ
Fricatives	Voiceless		f f	s s	s-si ʃ ch ç
	Voiced			z z	x ʒ	h ɣ
Laterals				l l	lh ʎ
Trill				r r
Approximants		b w		j j

/ɡ/ only appears in foreign loans. [b] is a word-initial allophone of /w/.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i u i y ï û iː uː		o u ó uː
Near-high	y ɪ
High-mid	e e é eu eː øː
High-mid	ë ɛː		ö ɔː
Low		a â a aː
Diphthongs	ei ɛɪ̯		ou ɔʊ̯

Orthographical notes:

• /aː/ is written ä when unstressed, cf. ratoâ /ratuˈaː/ "hawks" (nom. pl.) but ratoärûnh /ratuaːˈryːɲ/ "to hawks" (dat. pl.).
• Word-medially, stressed high or low long vowels in open syllables are written as normal vowels; a short vowel in the same position is denoted by doubling the consonant (as in the orthographies of most Germanic and Gallo-Italic languages), cf. rixo /riːʒu/ "you", čippa /ˈtʃipa/ "fire".
• Word-finally, stressed short vowels, including /ɪ/, are marked by an acute accent - cf. linurỳ /linyˈrɪ/ "language".
• /ɛɪ̯/, /øː/, and /ɔʊ̯/ are written as ëi, ëu, and öu if they are preceded by /e/ e or /u/ o, e.g. ratoöu /ratuˈɔʊ̯/ "hawks" (accus. pl.).
• The sequences /u.y/ and /e.i/ are written as oü and eï - e.g. ratoünh /ratuˈyɲ/ "to a/the hawk" (dat. sg.).