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Note: the Devanagari is just a placeholder.
| Rulhilli | |
|---|---|
| रुल्हिळ्ळि | |
| Pronunciation | [ɾuˈlʱiɭɭi] |
| Created by | Dillon Hartwig |
| Date | 2021 |
| Setting | Rangpur Division, Bangladesh |
Sino-Tibetan
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Early form | |
Rulhilli /rulˈhɪli/ (Rulhilli: रुल्हिळ्ळि [ɾuˈlʱiɭɭi]) is a Sinitic language spoken near Ulipur, Bangladesh.
Etymology
Rulhilli is from रुल्हिळ्ळि, from Old Rulhilli रुधिरदि, from Sanskrit रुधिरायानद्याः referring to the Brahmaputra river.
Orthography
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | |||||
| Stop | p pʰ | b bʱ | t tʰ | d dʱ | ʈ ʈʰ | ɖ ɖʱ | t͡ɕ t͡ɕʰ | d͡ʑ d͡ʑʱ | k kʰ | g gʱ |
| Fricative | s | ʂ | ɕ | (h) | ɦ | |||||
| Approximant | ʋ | l | j | |||||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||||||
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | |||||
| Stop | p pʰ | b bʱ | t tʰ | d dʱ | ʈ ʈʰ | ɖ ɖʱ | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ | d͡ʒ d͡ʒʱ | k kʰ | g gʱ |
| Fricative | s | ʂ | ʃ | ɦ | ||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | l lʱ | ɭ ɭʱ | j | ||||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||||||
- Old Rulhilli /s/ is realized as [h] word-finally.
- /ɳ/ only occurs in loanwords.
- In Old Rulhilli /l/ only occurs in loanwords.
Vowels
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| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i iː ĩ | u uː ũ |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛː | ɔ ɔː |
| Low | ɐ ɐ̃ | ɑː ɑ̃ |
- Modern nasal vowels may be short or long in free variation.
Prosody
Rulhilli stress falls on the last historically heavy (containing a long vowel or coda) syllable, or last syllable if there are no heavy syllables.
Phonotactics
Rulhilli maximal syllables are CCVC.
Morphology
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Negation
Numerals
Syntax
Constituent order
Rulhilli word order is predominantly SOV but flexible.