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

Consonants

Consonants

	Labial		Alveolar		Dorsal
Nasal	m		n
Stop	p	b	t	d	k
Affricate			t͡s
Fricative			s	z	h
Approximant	w		l		j
Trill			r

• /n/ is realized as [ŋ] before /k,h/.
• /h/ is realized as [x] in coda.

Vowels

Vowels

	Front unrounded	Front rounded	Back
High	i iː	y yː	u uː
Close-mid	e eː	ø øː	ə o oː
Low	æ æː		ɑ ɑː

Diphthongs

ei eːi	øy øːy	oi	ou oːu
æi æːi	æy æːy	ɑi ɑːi	ɑu ɑːu

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
pp tt kk	vv zz jj
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