Anbirese

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Anglo-Swedo-Icelando-Sino-Korean jokelang; include a xenic layer from a Pama-Nyungan-like language Dårle

Use "Fljeongmjeongths" somewhere

Flijeon River

Andaegol

Mjeolnir 'big hammer' -- hammer that periodically destroys the world (Sino-Korean myeol 'to wipe out') in Anbirese mythology?

Mjeolbon 'Melbourne'

brjedjeong

sjeong - sky, skjeong - to clean

Daerjeong-eup: town located where our timeline's Dwellingup is

Final stops have a distinction between nasally released vs. unreleased (-mm -nn -nng vs. -p -t -k)

Phonology

Consonants

  • k g ng /k g ŋ/
  • kj/tj gj/dj thj nj /tɕ d͡ʑ ɕ ɲ/
  • t d th n /t d θ n/
  • p b f v m /p b f v~w m/
  • s sj/stj/skj h /s ɧ h/
  • r l -d j /ɾ l ð j/

[w] is an allophone of hard /v/ after consonants.

/t d tʰ s z n/ are dental(ized).

Vowels

Anbirese has 7 vowel phonemes. ni ti thi ki di gi are read as nji tji thji kji dji gji.

Front Central Back
unrounded rounded
Close i /i/ u /ü/ eu [ɨ] o /o~u/
Mid ae, e /e̞/ ö /ø~œ/ eo [ə] eo /ʌ~ɔ/
Open a /ɐ/