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Revision as of 04:36, 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 | (θʲ) | s | sʲ | ʂ | ɕ | x | ħ | h |
| voiced | v | vʲ | z | zʲ | ʐ | ʑ | ɣ | ʕ | ||||
| Trill | r | r̝ | ||||||||||
| Approximant | central | ɻ | j | |||||||||
| lateral | ɫ | ʎ | ɭ | |||||||||
Vowels
Grammar
Somewhat unusually, Nurian is verb-final with prepositions and modifier-modified order.