Etlish

Etlish
Eteläin keeli
Pronunciation	[ˈetelæin ˈkeːli]
Created by	Dillon Hartwig
Date	2021
Setting	West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Language family	Uralic Finnic Etlish

Etlish /ˈɛtlɪʃ/ (Etlish: Eteläin keeli [ˈetelæin ˈkeːli]) is a Finnic language spoken in Western Pomerania.

Etymology

Etlish is from German Etlisch, from Etlish etel "Etlish person", from Proto-Finnic *etelä "south-southwest".

Orthography

Etlish is written with the Latin script.

A a	Aa aa	Ai ai	Aai aai	Au au	Aau aau	Ä ä	Ää ää
/ɑ/	/ɑː/	/ɑi/	/ɑːi/	/ɑu/	/ɑːu/	/æ/	/æː/
Äi äi	Ääi ääi	Äü äü	Ääü ääü	B b	D d	E e	Ee ee
/æi/	/æːi/	/æy/	/æːy/	/b/	/d//	/e/	/eː/
Ei ei	Eei eei	Ë ë	H h	I i	Ii ii	J j	K k
/ei/	/eːi/	/ə/	/h/	/i/	/iː/	/j/	/k/
L l	M m	N n	O o	Oi oi	Oo oo	Ou ou	Oou oou
/l/	/m/	/n/	/o/	/oi/	/oː/	/ou/	/oːu/
Ö ö	Öi öi	Öö öö	Öü öü	Ööü ööü	P p	R r	S s
/ø/	/øi/	/øː/	/øy/	/øːy/	/p/	/r/	/s/
T t	Ts ts	U u	Uu uu	Ü ü	Üü üü	V v	Z z
/t/	/t͡s/	/u/	/uː/	/y/	/yː/	/w/	/z/

Phonology

Prosody

Words bear initial stress.

Phonotactics

Etlish maximal syllables are CVC.

Vowel harmony

Front	Back
ü üü	u uu
ö öö*	o oo
öi öü* ööü*	oi ou oou
ä ää	a aa
äi ääi äü ääü	ai aai au aau

• /i,iː,e,eː,ei,eːi,ə/ are neutral and transparent to harmony.
• /øː,øy,øːy/ may be either front or transparent.

Consonant gradation

Strong	Weak
p t k	w z j
pp tt kk	p t k
ts s	s h

Example texts

Linguifex-hosted translations

• Translated works in Etlish
• Etlish/Test Case Sentences
• Etlish/Corpus

Conlang Atlas of Language Structures-hosted translations

• CALS translations

Other resources

CALS