Iskel

Iskel, pronounced [ískel] natively or /ˈɪskəl/ in English, is Suqi's first and most developed conlang. It was originally heavily based on Italian, Spanish, Korean, English, and Latin (creating the acronym ISKEL), but has been leaning much more a priori as development has progressed. Iskel first originated from a much more relex-like, or even code-like language called Lanesil, which only combined elements of English and Spanish in a transparently jumbled way, but was quickly replaced with a new language structure as Suqi learned more about linguistics. Some remnants of Lanesil still exist in Iskel, such as the word kire (to want) based on the Spanish word quiere (he/she/it wants), or the word to (two) based on the English word two.

Setting

There are three settings where Iskel is spoken that canonically have no knowledge of each other. One setting is the real world, where it is Suqi's personal constructed language. Another setting is in an alternate history Earth, as the native language of the inhabitants of Iskeland, a moderately-sized island west of Africa overlapping with the coordinates 0,0. The third setting is in an island archipelago called Juya Gwaña which exists on the Agma Schwa Minecraft server, Nguhcraft. The primary structure of Iskel is determined by its real-world setting, with it being a personal conlang, however there are sometimes influences from its alternate history setting. There are no influences from Nguhcraft, however.

Dialects

There are three dialects spoken in Iskel which have different significance depending on which setting they're spoken in. The dialects are Lanikel, Kliqel, and Duskel. They differ primarily in phoneme inventory.

Real-World

In the real world, Lanikel and Kliqel are interchangeable forms of Iskel stemming from two different stages in the language's creation process, meanwhile Duskel is a rarely used form of the language most distinct for having an appalling phoneme inventory for no reason. Duskel can be interchanged for Lanikel and Kliqel, but any use of it would have a purpose which is not the case for the other two.

Iskeland

In the alternate-history Iskeland is a part of, the island used to be colonized by the French Empire and its multiple dialects are a result of that colonization.

Lanikel is the most common form of Iskel in Iskeland. Its phonology was heavily influenced by French during the colonial period, though native features like clicks remained. After decolonization, language leaders reformed Lanikel to remove French-influenced vocabulary.

Kliqel is the least common form of the language. It was created to modify the phonology of Lanikel to remove French influence, drawing inspiration from the neighboring dialect Duskel, which went almost untouched by French influence. Kliqel is only used by elites and did not catch on for every-day people due to the changes they'd have to make.

Duskel is a variety of Iskel that predates French colonization, spoken by a group on the island that repelled French invasion on their region of Iskeland. The dialect is not spoken much, however, because its speakers are heavily outnumbered on the island. Duskel does not use the Latin script unlike Lanikel and Kliqel, it uses a fusion of several phonecian-derived scripts, including Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Devanagari, and Armenian. Duskel does not mark diacritics.

Juya Gwaña

Juya Gwaña only has the Lanikel dialect spoken on it. The other two do not exist in the world of Nguhcraft.

Phonology

Lanikel

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal		ɱ		n		ɲ	ŋ
Stop	Voiceless	p		t	t͡ʃ		k	ʔ
	Voiced	b			d͡ʒ		ɡ
Fricative	Voiceless	f	θ	s	ʃ	ʎ̝̊	x	h
	Voiced	v	ð	z	ʒ
Approximant	Oral	w		l		j
	Nasal	w̃		l̃		j̃
Vibrant				ɾ			ʀ
Click	Oral		ŋ͡ʇ	ŋ͡ǃ		ŋ͡ǂ
	Nasal		k͡ʇ	k͡ǃ		k͡ǂ

	Front		Near-Front		Near-Back		Back
	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long
Close	i	iː	ɪ	ɪː	ʊ	ʊː	u	uː
Mid	e	eː	ə	əː	ʌ	ʌː	o	oː
Open	a	aː					ɑ	ɑː

Kliqel

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar		Palatal	Uvular	Glottal
				Median	Lateral
Nasal	Unrounded	m		n		ɲ	ɴ
	Rounded	mʷ		nʷ		ɲʷ
Plosive	Voiceless	p		t			q
	Voiced	b
Affricate	Voiceless			t͡s
	Voiced			d͡z
Fricative	Voiceless	ɸ	θ	s	ɬ	ç	χ	h
	Voiced	β	ð	z		ʝ
Glide		w		ɾ	l	j
Trill				r			ʀ
Click	Nasal		ŋ͡ʇ	ŋ͡ǃ		ŋ͡ǂ
	Aspirated		k͡ʇʰ
	Tenuis		k͡ʇ	k͡ǃ	k͡ǁ	k͡ǂ

	Front		Back
			Unrounded		Rounded
	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long
Close	i	iː	ɯ	ɯː	u	uː
Close-Mid	e	eː	ɤ	ɤː	o	oː
Open-Mid	ɛ	ɛː			ɔ	ɔː
Open	a	aː

Duskel

		Bilabial	Bidental	Linguolabial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Guttural
Nasal		m				ɳ
Stop	Voiceless	pʰ			t͡s		c	ʔ
	Voiced				d͡z		ɟ	ɢ
Fricative	Voiceless	ɸ			s	ʂ	ʃ	x
	Voiced	β			z	ʐ	ʝ	ɣ
Approximant					ɹ	ɭ	j
Trill		ʙ			r
Glottalic	Voiceless			t̼ʼ				kʼ
	Voiced							ʛ
Click	Nasal			ŋ͡ʇ̼	ŋ͡ǁ			m͡ʞ
	Tenuis			k͡ʇ̼	k͡ǁ			m̥͡ʞ
Percussive			ʭ

	Front		Near-Front		Near-Back		Back
	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long
					ɯ	ɯː
	ɪ	ɪː			ʊ	ʊː
			ə	əː
	ɛ	ɛː			ʌ	ʌː	ɔ	ɔː
			ɐ	ɐː			ɑ	ɑː

Romanizations

Consonants	Phoneme	/ɱ/	/p/	/b/	/f/	/v/	/w/	/w̃/	/θ/	/ð/	/ŋ͡ʇ/	/k͡ʇ/	/n/	/t/	/s/	/z/	/l/	/l̃/	/ɾ/	/ŋ͡ǃ/	/k͡ǃ/	/t͡ʃ/	/d͡ʒ/	/ʃ/	/ʒ/	/ɲ/	/ʎ̝̊/	/j/	/j̃/	/ŋ͡ǂ/	/k͡ǂ/	/ŋ/	/k/	/ɡ/
	Lanikel
	Phoneme
	Kliqel
	Phoneme
	Duskel
Vowels	Phoneme
	Lanikel
	Phoneme
	Kliqel
	Phoneme
	Duskel