Hololang

Hololang
Holo
Pronunciation	[[hɔ.lɔ]]
Created by	Madoka
Date	Aug 2021
Setting	Alt-Earth
Ethnicity	HoloCouncil
Native speakers	5 (2021)
Language family	FFC0CB Hololive Related Languages Hololang

Introduction

Goals

The goal of this artlang is to create a fun and simple experiment, making the members of HoloCouncil actually react to it and maybe create a memrise course when everything is 100% ready to be launched.

Setting

Hololang is the language that used to be spoken by the members of the HoloCouncil (if you know the Hololive english second generation), since they have been here on the universe before the appearance of the human race and therefore the surgiment of human language. This is the language that was used during the meetings of the Council.

Phonology

Consonants

→ PoA ↓ Manner		Labial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Alveolopalatal	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasals		m m		n n		ny ɲ	ng ŋ
Plosives	Voiceless	p p		t t			c k q kʷ
	Voiced	b b		d d			g ɡ
Affricates	Voiceless			ts ts	ch tʃ
	Voiced			dz dz	dj d͡ʒ
Fricatives	Voiceless		f f	s s	sh/ss ʃ				h h
	Voiced		v v	z z	j ʒ			rr ʁ
Approximant						y j
Trill				r r
Tap or flap				<r ɾ>
Lateral Approximants				l l		ly ʎ

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i i		u u
Mid	e ɛ		o ɔ
Low	a a

Orthography

Hololang's orthography is very recent since it was mostly a spoken language before the existence of the writing systems, after observing the humans for hundred of times, HoloCouncil adopted the Latin alphabet as the main script for the language. The graphemes of each phoneme are written in bold on the respective tables, but the things that grab attention are mostly the voiced postalveolar fricative being written as j and the voiced palatal approximant being written as y. The voiceless velar plosive is normally written as c but in loan words it is written as k. The voiceless postalveolar fricative has two written methods, one when this phoneme is at the beginning of a word sh and the other when the sound is found at the middle or end of a word ss.

Phonotactics

Most of the consonant clusters are allowed in Hololang. Other rules that apply to Hololang:

• r becomes ɾ between vowels or between a plosive and a vowel
• Vowels get longer when placed at the end of a word, in a diphthong or between a vowel and a nasal consonant for example in the words vē vɛː (english: we), sofēng sɔfɛːŋ (english: seven) and Havaī havaiː (english: Hawaii}}