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! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |Front | |||
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |Central | |||
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |Back | |||
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!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small> | |||
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! style="" |Close | |||
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| /ʊ/ | |||
| /uː/ | |||
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! style="" |Mid | |||
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| /o/ | |||
| /oː/ | |||
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! style="" |Open | |||
| /ɛ/ | |||
| /æː/ | |||
| /ɐ/ | |||
| /aː/ | |||
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==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
Revision as of 14:52, 9 November 2015
Nurian is a Talsmic language descending from Themsarian.
Phonology
Consonants
Nurian has consonants in hard-soft pairs, similar to Slavic languages.
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Radical | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | |||||||
| Nasal | m | mʲ | n̪ | nʲ | ɳ | ɲ̄ | ŋ | |||||
| Stop /Affricate |
tenuis | p | pʲ | t̪ | tʲ | ʈ | tɕ | k | ||||
| voiced | b | bʲ | d̪ | dʲ | ɖ | dʑ | g | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | fʲ | θ | s | sʲ | ʂ | ɕ | x | ħ | h | |
| voiced | v | vʲ | ð | z | zʲ | ʐ | ʑ | ɣ | ʕ | |||
| Trill | r | rʲ | ||||||||||
| Approximant | central | ɻ | j | |||||||||
| lateral | ɫ | lʲ | ɭ | |||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | /ɪ/ | /iː/ | /ʊ/ | /uː/ | ||
| Mid | /o/ | /oː/ | ||||
| Open | /ɛ/ | /æː/ | /ɐ/ | /aː/ | ||
Grammar
Somewhat unusually, Nurian is verb-final with prepositions and modifier-modified order.