Anbirese

Anglo-Swedo-Sino-Korean jokelang

Use "Fljeongmjeongths" somewhere

Flijeon River

Andaegol

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

brjedjeong

Phonology

Old Anbirese and Old Ciètian both underwent the so-called Anbirese spirantization of Tigol aspirated stops: p ṗ t ṫ c ċ /pʰ bʰ tʰ dʰ kʰ gʰ/ > OAnb /f v θ ð x ɣ/. Modern Anbirese subsequently shifted /θ/ to unaspirated t /t/, /t/ (from Tigol d) to θ /tʰ/, /ð/ to z /z/, and deleted /ɣ/.

Consonants

Anbirese has about 33 consonants:

• /k g x ŋ/
• /tɕ d͡ʑ tɕʰ ɲ/
• /t d tʰ z (ʑ) n/
• /p b f v m/
• /pʲ bʲ fʲ vʲ mʲ/
• /s ɕ ɧ h/
• /ɾ ɾʲ ɹ j ɴ̆/ [w]

Anbirese has phonetic palatalization, indicated by writing Cj. Anbirese makes a distinction between palatalized consonants (written Cj) and iotated consonants (written Clj):

• mjeg /mʲeg/ = to cover (cognate to Eevo mee 'to hide'); mljeg /mʲjeg/ = to sell (cognate to Eevo mleend 'shop')
• sjeong 'sky', sljeong 'blossom, bloom'

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

/t d tʰ s z n/ are dental(ized).

Notation

Radical consonants

• k g ng /k g ŋ/
• kj χj ngj /tɕ ɕ ɲ/
• t θ n /t tʰ n/
• tj θj nj /tɕ tɕʰ ɲ/
• c cj /ts tɕ/
• p f m /p f m/
• pj fj mj /pʲ fʲ mʲ/
• s sj/stj/skj h /s ɧ h/
• r l lj j /r ɴ̆ l j/

At word-final position, the voicing distinction in unaspirated plosives is lost, and unaspirated plosives are unreleased.

Lenited consonants

• g γ /g Ø/
• gj γj /d͡ʑ j/
• d z /d z/
• dj zj /d͡ʑ ɹ/
• dz dzj /dz d͡ʑ/
• b v /b v/
• bj vj /bʲ vʲ/

Eclipsed consonants

• ng ngh /ŋ ŋʰ/
• nj nhj /ɲ ɲʰ/
• n nh /n nʰ/
• m mh mj mhj /m mʰ mʲ mʲʰ/

Mutations

Anbirese has 3 types of mutations: lenition, eclipsis, and h-prothesis.

Consonant mutations

grapheme	m	p	f	t	θ	c	s*	z	k	ch	0, j
soft	ng	b	h	z	d	dz	0	-	g	0	-
nasal	-	m	v	nh	n	-	z	-	ng	ngh	n(j)-
h-prothesis	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	h(j)-

Null-initial words may get h-prothesis after certain words.

^*The clusters written sp, st, sk do not mutate.

Vowels

Anbirese has 7 vowel phonemes. eu /ɨ/ may be treated as a hard counterpart of i /i/: mi ni pi ti ci ki bi di gi fi vi are read as mji nji pji tji cji kji bji dji gji fji vji. si zi li are an exception: they're pronounced [ɕi ʑi ɲi].

	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/