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Thulean is the sole surviving member of the Insular branch of the Hercynian language family. It has an estimated 33 million speakers. The language is agglutinative and polysynthetic with an active-stative morphosyntax of the fluid-S subtype. It is written using the Latin alphabet as is universal amongst Western European languages.
Thulean is the sole surviving member of the Insular branch of the Hercynian language family. It has an estimated 33 million speakers. The language is agglutinative and polysynthetic with an active-stative morphosyntax of the fluid-S subtype. It is written using the Latin alphabet as is universal amongst Western European languages.
===Phonology===
A) Phoneme Inventory
1) Consonants
NASAL:
-fortis: /mb, nd, Ng/
-lenis: /m, n, N/
LIQUID:
-fortis: /rd, ld/
-lenis: /r, l/
PLOSIVE:
-fortis: /pp, tt, kk/
-lenis: /p, t, k/
FRICATIVE:
-fortis: /ss, xx/
-lenis: /s, x/
APPROXIMANT: /v\, D, j/
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