Æ

Æ/Lexicon

Æ
jarb-jarb Æ
Pronunciation	[/jaˁʱjaˁʱ ɛ/]
Created by	IlL, Praimhín
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Lakovic Æ
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Æ /ɛ/ eh (native: jarb-jarb Æ /jaˁʱjaˁʱ ɛ/ 'Æ words'; Windermere: brits Ä) is a minority Lakovic language spoken in Tumhan. It's inspired by Danish (and the name is inspired by the real-world E language).

Phonology

Consonants

p t tj k f s h m n ng l zj r v j /p t t͡ɕ k f s x m n ŋ l ɹ ʀ v j/

Vowels

Khmerization conditioned by initial voicing:

i > ɪ/i > e/i
u > ʊ/u > ů/u
o > ɔ/o > o/ø
a > ɑ > ɒ/øə > å/æ̊
e > ɛ/e > a/æ
ä > ɐ > a/u

**Æ vowels**
	Front				Central		Back
	unrounded		rounded		Central		Back
	plain	phar.	plain	phar.	plain	phar.	plain	phar.
Close	i /i/	ir /iˤ/			u /ɨ/	ur /ɨˤ/	ů /u/	ůr /uˤ/
Close-mid	e /e/	er /eˤ/	ø /ø/				o /o/	or /oˤ/
Open	æ /ɛ/	ær /ɛˤ/	æ̊ /œ/	æ̊r, ør /œˤ/	a /a/	ar /aˤ/	å /ɔ/	år /ɔˤ/

Tones

Æ has four register phonations or tones:

**Æ tones**
Spelling	Tone	Example	IPA	Meaning
unmarked	modal	hæ̊	/hœ/	echo
s	stød (weak glottalization)	hæ̊s	/hœˀ/	steep
b	breathy	hæ̊b	/hœʱ/	to stretch
g	checked (strong glottalization)	hæ̊g	/hœʔ/	to make a mistake

Morphology

"Erhua" (pharyngealization) is sometimes used to nominalize verbs (from PLak *s) or form passives/intransitive verbs (from PLak *⟨r⟩) from transitive ones.

hæ̊g /hœʔ/ = to lose one's way > hæ̊rg /hœˤʔ/ = mistake, error
to /to/ = to see > tor /toˤ/ = to be visible, to appear