Lodeen

Background

Inspiration

Lodeen is a joking attempt at an auxlang, intended as an experiment to see what would a simple language to learn and speak be like if everyone was like me. But it was quickly boring so I tried to complexify it a little bit.

Setting

The People

Lodeen speakers live somewhere in the East of Africa, no precise location. There are woods and fields, hot country but no desert nor tropical climate. Lodeen people are very dark-skinned, with slanted eyes. They are one minority tribe in a bigger country (I don’t care which one) and the elders are keeping old traditions, while younger people often go to cities to study and look for work. But there’s a strong sense of family and solidarity and young people feel very attached to their homes and traditions too. I think this people is a bit of a cliché but, whatever. There are about 10,000 of them I think (they’re a minority but not too few either). Their religion is Badzhoism, and they like to use timber for their buildings very much.

Phonology

Lodeen's phonemic inventory is comprised of 15 phonemes :

Consonants

Consonantal phonemes

		Bilabial	Labio-dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		m		n
Stop		p		t		k
Fricative			f	s
Approximant		w		l	j

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

		Front	Central	Back
Close		i		u
Mid		e		o
Open			a