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
sjeong - sky, skjeong - to clean
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.
| 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/ | |||