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

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 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).

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 li].

	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/