Nurian
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Nurian is a Talsmic language descending from Themsarian.
Phonology
Consonants
Nurian has consonants in hard-soft pairs, similar to Slavic languages.
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Radical | Glottal | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | |||||||
Nasal | m | mʲ | n̪ | nʲ | ɳ | ɲ̄ | ŋ | |||||
Stop /Affricate |
tenuis | p | pʲ | t̪ | tʲ | ʈ | tɕ | k | ||||
voiced | b | bʲ | d̪ | dʲ | ɖ | dʑ | g | |||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | fʲ | θ | (θʲ) | s | sʲ | ʂ | ɕ | x | ħ | h |
voiced | v | vʲ | z | zʲ | ʐ | ʑ | ɣ | ʕ | ||||
Trill | r | r̝ | ||||||||||
Approximant | central | ɻ | j | |||||||||
lateral | ɫ | ʎ | ɭ |
Vowels
Grammar
Somewhat unusually, Nurian is verb-final with prepositions and modifier-modified order.