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.

Diacritics

The macron (ˉ) is the only diacritic used in Hololang and it's only used on vowels, its function is to increase the lenght of the vowel sound.

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}}

Morphology

There are no cases or gramatical gender in Hololang.

Nouns

Nouns deflect on number,singular and plural, and degree (augmentative, normal and diminutive)

	kores = planet			rozē = rose
	Augmentative	Normal	Diminutive	Augmentative	Normal	Diminutive
Singular	koresān	kores	koresīn	rozēnyān	rozē	rozeīn
Plural	koresāns	koress	koresīns	rozēnyāns	rozes	rozeīns

Nouns are divided in three families: common, colective and proper.

Pronouns

Personal and Possessive pronouns are related to each other they only inflect in person.

		Personal		Possessive
1SG		mā		moī
2SG		tī		tuī
3SG		jaī		jaī
1PL		vē		venyī
2PL		tiss		tissuī
3PL		jaīs		jaīs

There's also the demonstratives, the relatives and the indefinites

Demonstrative Pronouns

		Proximal	Distant
Singular		djā	tsā
Plural		djas	tsas

Relative Pronouns

Refering to People	qāng
Refering to Living Things	qāny
Refering to Things	qām
Refering to Places	qarū
Refering to Time	qacē
Refering to Possession	qatsī

Interrogative Pronouns are based on the relative pronouns.

Indefinite Pronouns

				All	Part of	Any	Nothing
People				chāmal	chānil	chānyol	charraj
Living Things				rūmal	rūnil	rūnyol	rurraj
Things				rīmal	rīnil	rīnyol	rīrraj
Places				qāmal	qānil	qānyol	qārraj
Time				nyēmal	nyēnil	nēnyol	nyerraj

Articles

		Singular	Plural
Definite		yā	lyā
Indefinite		yas	lyas

Syntax

Constituent order

The normal word order for a sentence in Hololag is SOV. In interrogative and negative sentences this changes to a OSV order. Sentences of commands and requests are in SOV excluding negative commands.