Nurian
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Nurian is a Talsmic language descending from Themsarian. It is spoken alongside Zutarlic languages, Clofabic languages and New World Reber Wiebian.
Phonology
Arabo-Lithuanian
Consonants
Nurian has consonants in hard-soft pairs, similar to Lithuanian and Slavic.
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Radical | Glottal | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | |||||||
Nasal | m | mʲ | n̪ | nʲ | ɳ | ɲ̄ | ŋ | |||||
Stop /Affricate |
tenuis | p | pʲ | t̪ | tʲ | ʈ | tɕ | k | ||||
voiced | b | bʲ | d̪ | dʲ | ɖ | dʑ | g | |||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | fʲ | θ | s | sʲ | ʂ | ɕ | x | ħ | h | |
voiced | ð | z | zʲ | ʐ | ʑ | ɣ | ʕ | |||||
Trill | r | rʲ | ||||||||||
Approximant | central | ʋ | ʋʲ | ɻ | j | |||||||
lateral | ɫ | lʲ | ɭ |
Palatalization
- /θ s/ palatalize to /sʲ/
- /ð z/ palatalize to /zʲ/
- /ŋ k g x ɣ/ palatalize to /ɲ̄ tɕ dʑ ɕ ʑ/
Vowels
The spelling to the left is the "hard" vowel, and the spelling to the right indicates its "soft" counterpart. An exception occurs after retroflexes and radicals, where the spellings i, ī, u, ū, o, ō, a, ē, ai, au are used.
Front | Central | Back | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
short | long | short | long | short | long | |
Close | y, i /ɪ/ | ȳ, ī /iː/ | u, iu /ʊ/ | ū, iū /uː/ | ||
Mid | o, io /o/ | ao/ō, iō /oː/ | ||||
Open | ia/e [ɛ] | ae, ē /æː/ | a /ɐ/ | ā, iā /ɑː/ |
ia and e both represent [ɛ], the allophone of /ɐ/ after palatalized consonants.
Diphthongs: ai, iai /ɐɪ/ au, iau /ɐʊ/
Grammar
Somewhat unusually, Nurian is verb-final with prepositions and modifier-modified order.