Barakhinei

Barakhinei
Barakhinei
Created by	Mark Rosenfelder
Date	1999(?)
Setting	Almea
Native to	Barakhún, Mútkün, Hroth
Language family	Eastern Central Cad'inor Barakhinei
Dialects	Western(têl rhu) Central(êrrê rhu) Southern(âr rhu)

Barakhinei is a language created by Mark Rosenfelder, the creator of Verdurian and the Zompist.com webpage.

Philogically, Barakhinei is in the same language family as Verdurian, Ismaîn and Sarroc. Verdurians apparently consider the language "harsh and primitive", to which, likewise, the Barakhinei consider Verdurians to be "spineless degenerates".

Phonology

Orthography

Barakhinei uses its own alphabet, that is derived from the Cad'inor alphabet. The modern orthography is adapted from the mountain alphabet that was used during the Dark Ages, when paper and ink fell out of fashion and instead writing was restricted to carving on stone and wood.

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial		Dental		Alveolar		Post- alveolar/ palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Nasal		m				n		ɲ
Stop	p	b			t	d			k	ɡ
Trill						r						ʀ
Affricate							t͡ʃ
Fricative	f	v	θ	ð	s	z	ʃ		x				h
Approximant								j
Lateral						l		ʎ

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Front		Near-front	Near-back	Back
Close	i	y			u
Near-close			ɪ	ʊ
Close-mid	e	ø			o
Open-mid	ε				ɔ
Open	a				ɑ

Prosody

Stress

In Barakhinei, stress usually falls on the last closed syllable, e.g. ovori, kalen, chamor, anu. Words that dont fit this rule are labeled in the lexicon.

Additional rules

• Epenthetic vowels are not stressed(e.g. chitor, erêsûl)
• Roots ending in -l, -kh, or -th are usually not stressed(êshtôl, dorôth, ezarkh)
• The derivational suffixes -nor, -il, -el, diminutive -ek, and the -dêsht in powers of ten are never stressed(ekunor, iladil, êndel, hedêsht, kêntek)