Central Isles Creole

Central Isles Creole
lonxwìŋooo
Pronunciation	[lõ̞˥xʷi˩ŋo̞ːː˥]
Created by	Dillon Hartwig
Date	2022
Setting	Pollasena
Native to	Knrawi Isles, Kilimossu states
Era	-900 to -600 MT
Language family	Creole Central Isles Creole
Early form	Knrawi, Soc'ul', Kilīmos-sāîl, Pre-Knrawi languages

Central Isles Creole (Central Isles Creole: lonxwìŋooo [lõ̞˥xʷi˩ŋo̞ːː˥]) is a Knrawi-based creole spoken in the central Knrawi Isles and western Ternium.

Orthography

Central Isles Creole is generally not written, but may be written in Wacag. Its romanization is as follows.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants

	Labial					Alveolar					palatal			Velar					Labialized dorsal			Uvular			Glottal
Nasal	m		mˀ			n		nˀ						ŋ		ŋˀ
Stop	p	b	pʰ	pˣ	bˀ	t	d	tʰ	tˣ	dˀ				k		kʰ	kˣ		kʷ	kʷʰ	kʷˣ	q	qʰ	qˣ
Affricate						t͡θ					t͡ʃ
Fricative	f	v			vˀ	θ	ð			ðˀ	ʃ	ʒ	ʒˀ	x	ɣ			ɣˀ	xʷ χʷ			χ			h
Approximant							ɹ l			ɹˀ lˀ		j	jˀ						w	wˀ

• Voiced fricatives and sonorants (except /j(ˀ) w(ˀ)/) can be syllabic.

Vowels

Vowels

	Front			Central			Back
High	ɪ	iː	iːː				ʊ	uː	uːː
Mid	e̞	e̞ː	e̞ːː				o̞	o̞ː	o̞ːː
Low				a	aː	aːː

• All vowels can be oral or nasal.

Tones

Tones

High	Low
˥	˩

Prosody

Central Isles Creole stress position and realization varies by area and speaker.

Phonotactics

Syllables are at most (C(C₁))V((C₁)C), with C₁ being more sonorous than C.

Morphology

Syntax

Constituent order

Word order is strictly SOV.

Noun and verb phrases

All modifiers follow their head noun or verb if not affixed. Modifiers follow their head, numerators follow adjectives, possessors follow all other modifiers.

Dependent clauses

Dependent clauses follow the head they modify after all other dependents, and their head noun is often backed to the end of its clause.

Example texts

Linguifex-hosted translations

• Translated works in Central Isles Creole
• Central Isles Creole/Test Case Sentences
• Central Isles Creole/Corpus

Conlang Atlas of Language Structures-hosted translations

• CALS translations

Other resources

CALS