Æ

Æ/Lexicon

Æ (natively [ʔe˧˧]; in English /ɛ/ eh) is an Angaian monosyllabic tonal analytic language inspired by Danish and Vietnamese (and the name is inspired by the real-world E language).

rǿdˀ grǿdˀ med flø̣d could be a chengyu

Broad phonology

Initials

b d bl gl g f s fl sl t h m n ng l r v j 0 /p t pl tɬ k f s fl ɬ ts h m n ŋ l ʁ v j ʔ/

Medials

-r- /ʁ/ Since this lowers the vowel, the exact phonetic values of rV combinations must be learned. Tentatively only allowed after b d g f s t h m n ng v.

Vowels

Nuclei: i y u ů e ø o æ æ̊ a å /i y ɨ u e ø o ɛ œ æ ɔ/

Finals

-0 -j -v -d -r -n -m /-0 -j -w -ð̞ˠ -ɐ̯ -ⁿ -wⁿ/

Origins of finals

• -0 comes from older -0 (tone A), -ʔ (tone B), -h (tone C), -k (tone D)
• -v comes from older -w (tone A), -wʔ (tone B), -f (tone C), -p (tone D)
• -j comes from older -j (tone A), -jʔ (tone B), -ç (tone C), -c (tone D)
• -d comes from older -ð/-l (tone A), -ðʔ/-lʔ (tone B), -þ (tone C), -t (tone D)
• -r comes from older -r (tone A), -rʔ (tone B), -s (tone C), -q (tone D)
• -n from -n -ɲ sometimes -ŋ (add ʔ or final fric as necessary for tones B or C), -nə(final stop) -ɲə(final stop) -ŋə(final stop) (tone D)
• -m from -m sometimes -ŋ (add ʔ or final fric as necessary for tones B or C), -mə(final stop) -ŋə(final stop) (tone D)

Tones

6 tones, with independent +-stød (TODO: diachronically justify independent stød)

Tone box

Vietnamese tone diacritics are used to indicate the abstract etymological origin of the tone (The precise tone values are TBD)

	A (null/voiced coda)	B (glottal stop coda)	C (fricative coda)	D (voiceless stop coda)
Modal initial	a	á	ả	á, always + stød
Breathy initial	à	ạ	ã	ạ, always + stød

Narrow phonology

Steal from Danish narrow phonology as much as possible