Pradiul
| Pradiul | |
|---|---|
| Created by | IlL |
| Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Lakovic
| |
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 mʲ | n n̪ | ni nʲ | ņi ɲ | ņ ŋ | ||||||
| Stop | voiceless | p p | pi pʲ | t t̪ | ti tʲ | ki c | k k | ʔ | ||||
| voiced | b b | bi bʲ | d d̪ | di dʲ | gi ɟ | g g | ||||||
| Affricate | c ts | ci tɕ | cz tʂ | czi tʃ | ||||||||
| Fricative | f f | fi fʲ | þ θˠ | þi θʲ | s s | si ɕ | sz ʂ | szi ʃ | chi, hi ç | ch x | h h | |
| Resonant | v v | vi vʲ | l ɫ | li lʲ | 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 o a i u/
å was different vowel /oə~uə/ in the earliest days of written Pradiul, but is merged with a /a/ for all modern speakers.
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 (from demonstratives fie 'that' and sia 'this'; cognate to Windermere fi and se with the same meanings).
Noun plurals are different from Windermere and use an echo vowel instead of a fixed affix: knol 'leaf', oknol 'leaves'. (compare Windermere cnul, pl. imcnul)