Nurian

Nurian is a Talsmic language descending from Themsarian. It is spoken alongside Zutarlic languages, Clofabic languages and New World Reber Wiebian.

Phonology

Arabo-Lithuanian

Consonants

Nurian has consonants in hard-soft pairs, similar to Slavic languages.

Consonant phonemes

		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

Palatalization

• /θ s/ palatalize to /sʲ/
• /ð z/ palatalize to /zʲ/
• /ŋ k g x ɣ/ palatalize to /ɲ̄ tɕ dʑ ɕ ʑ/

Vowels

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	y, i /ɪ/	ȳ, ī /iː/			u, iu /ʊ/	ū, iū /uː/
Mid					o, io /o/	ao/ō, iō /oː/
Open	e [ɛ]	ae, ē /æː/	a, ia /ɐ/	ā, iā /aː/

ia and e both represent [ɛ], the allophone of /ɐ/ after palatalized consonants.

Diphthongs: ai, iai /ɐɪ/ au, iau /ɐʊ/

Grammar

Somewhat unusually, Nurian is verb-final with prepositions and modifier-modified order.