Hololang
| Hololang | |
|---|---|
| Holo | |
| Pronunciation | [[hɔ.lɔ]] |
| Created by | Madoka |
| Date | Aug 2021 |
| Setting | Alt-Earth |
| Ethnicity | HoloCouncil |
| Native speakers | 5 (2021) |
| |
Introduction
Goals
The goal of this artlang is to create a fun and simple experiment, making the members of HoloCouncil actually react to it and maybe create a memrise course when everything is 100% ready to be launched.
Setting
Hololang is the language that used to be spoken by the members of the HoloCouncil (if you know the Hololive english second generation), since they have been here on the universe before the appearance of the human race and therefore the surgiment of human language. This is the language that was used during the meetings of the Council.
Phonology
Consonants
| → PoA ↓ Manner |
Labial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Alveolopalatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | m m | n n | ny ɲ | ng ŋ | |||||
| Plosives | Voiceless | p p | t t | c k q kʷ | |||||
| Voiced | b b | d d | g ɡ | ||||||
| Affricates | Voiceless | ts ts | ch tʃ | ||||||
| Voiced | dz dz | dj d͡ʒ | |||||||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | f f | s s | sh/ss ʃ | h h | ||||
| Voiced | v v | z z | j ʒ | rr ʁ | |||||
| Approximant | y j | ||||||||
| Trill | r r | ||||||||
| Tap or flap | <r ɾ> | ||||||||
| Lateral Approximants | l l | ly ʎ | |||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i i | u u | |
| Mid | e ɛ | o ɔ | |
| Low | a a |
Orthography
Hololang's orthography is very recent since it was mostly a spoken language before the existence of the writing systems, after observing the humans for hundred of times, HoloCouncil adopted the Latin alphabet as the main script for the language. The graphemes of each phoneme are written in bold on the respective tables, but the things that grab attention are mostly the voiced postalveolar fricative being written as j and the voiced palatal approximant being written as y. The voiceless velar plosive is normally written as c but in loan words it is written as k. The voiceless postalveolar fricative has two written methods, one when this phoneme is at the beginning of a word sh and the other when the sound is found at the middle or end of a word ss.
Phonotactics
Most of the consonant clusters are allowed in Hololang. Other rules that apply to Hololang:
- r becomes ɾ between vowels or between a plosive and a vowel
- Vowels get longer when placed at the end of a word, in a diphthong or between a vowel and a nasal consonant for example in the words vē vɛː (english: we), sofēng sɔfɛːŋ (english: seven) and Havaī havaiː (english: Hawaii}}