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Rílin is a constructed language created by Margaret Ransdell-Green. It is an a | Rílin is a constructed language created by Margaret Ransdell-Green. It is an a priori, naturalistic fictional conlang, spoken by the Ríli who inhabit the world of Aeniith. It is an agglutinative and fusional language, with a split-ergative verbal alignment system. Word order typically VSO. It is suffixing, has prepositions, a case system for nouns, two noun classes, and a complex system of pronominal verbal endings, which indicate tense, aspect, mode, person, number, clusivity (for 1st person plurals), and three degrees of formality. | ||
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'''Vowels''' | |||
i ɪ y e ɛ ø æ ɑ~a ɔ o ʌ ɯ u | |||
=== Minimal Pairs === | |||
awu ‘upright’ | |||
aɣu 'blind' | |||
aʟu/ 'machete' | |||
uga 'douɡh' | |||
uxa 'axe' | |||
uʟa ‘old woman’ | |||
uka ‘companion’ | |||
uqa ‘piglet’ | |||
da ‘rock’ | |||
ɾa ‘cunning’ | |||
sa ‘deep’ | |||
ʂa ‘supply’ | |||
za ‘prostitute’ | |||
ʃa ‘petal’ | |||
ʐa ‘blizzard’ | |||
ta ‘face’ | |||
na ‘shame’ | |||
la ‘sorrow’ | |||
ɬa ‘swing’ | |||
pa ‘wrap’ | |||
ma ‘mother’ | |||
fa ‘cotton’ | |||
ɸa ‘breeze’ | |||
va ‘corset’ | |||
βa ‘energy’ | |||
ba ‘father’ | |||
wa ‘stretch’ | |||
iha ‘plan’ | |||
iʔa ‘insect’ | |||
imo 'eyelash' | |||
ino 'color' | |||
iŋo 'sugar' | |||
ke ‘hand’ | |||
kɛ ‘lettuce’ | |||
ko ‘intend’ | |||
kɔ ‘tilt the head’ | |||
ɾe ‘hot’ | |||
ɾɛ ‘write’ | |||
ʂy ‘sorrow’ | |||
ʃy ‘be.NPRES’ |
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