Pradiul

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Pradiul
Created byIlL
SettingVerse:Tricin
Lakovic
  • Ashanic
    • Pradiul
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Pradiul (temporary name) is a minority Lakovic language of Talma inspired by Khmer and my (User:IlL's) Germanic conlang Þiúsьk. It is a descendant of Old Windermere.

Numbers: dån, riat, stiev, smiåch, miuc, tiach, båþ, szeb, laj, saju, sriuch

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Velar Glottal
hard soft hard soft hard soft hard soft soft hard
Nasal m m mi n ni ņi ɲ ņ ŋ
Stop voiceless p p pi t ti ki c k k ʔ
voiced b b bi d di gi ɟ g g
Affricate c ts ci cz czi
Fricative f f fi þ θˠ þi θʲ s s si ɕ sz ʂ szi ʃ chi, hi ç ch x h h
Resonant v v vi l ɫ li r ɾ ri ɾʲ j j

Palatalization is neutralized for word-final consonants, however they assimilate to the palatalization of the next consonant: dån fniud [donʲ fʲnʲud] 'one day'. The only exception is word-final /v/ which is always [w].

Initial voiceless stops were traditionally not aspirated, but are lightly aspirated now.

Vowels

a/ia e/ie o/io å/iå y/i u/iu /a e a o i u/

Unstressed vowel: /ə/ (spelled a if nonpalatalizing and i if palatalizing)

Stress

Stress is always final, as in Windermere.

Phonotactics

Zero and C are the only permitted word-final codas.

Here is a list (modulo palatalization) by type of cluster (some clusters may be listed more than once):

  • Cl: pl, tl, cl, kl, bl, gl, fl, chl, sl
  • Cr: pr, tr, cr, kr, br, dr, gr, fr, þr, chr, sr
  • Cm: tm, þm, km, chm, sm
  • Cn: fn, kn, chn, sn
  • Cņ: fņ, tņ, þņ, chņ, sņ
  • Cv: tv, þv, kv, chv, gv, sv
  • sC: sp, st, sk, sm, sn, sņ, sl, sr, sv
  • chC: chm, chn, chņ, chl, chr

Voiced stops are not allowed to begin minor syllables in roots. This rule does not apply to proper names.

Morphology

Similar to Talmic languages? Inflected prepositions, etc.

Nouns

Like Modern Windermere, Pradiul has two articles, the definite article fie and the specific article sia.

Noun plurals are different from Windermere.