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.

Consonant phonemes
Labial Dental Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Radical Glottal
plain pal. plain pal. plain pal.
Nasal m ɳ ɲ̄ ŋ
Stop
/Affricate
tenuis p ʈ k
voiced b ɖ g
Fricative voiceless f θ s ʂ ɕ x ħ h
voiced v ð z ʐ ʑ ɣ ʕ
Trill r
Approximant central ɻ j
lateral ɫ ɭ

Vowels

Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close /ɪ/ /iː/ /ʊ/ /uː/
Mid /o/ /oː/
Open /ɛ/ /æː/ /ɐ/ /aː/

Diphthongs: /ɐɪ/ /ɐʊ/ /iə/ /uə/

Grammar

Somewhat unusually, Nurian is verb-final with prepositions and modifier-modified order.