Æ

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Æ
jarb-jarb Æ
Pronunciation[/jaˁʱjaˁʱ ɛ/]
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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:

  • Proto-Tumhanic i > ɪ/i (RTR/ATR) > e/i
  • Proto-Tumhanic u > ʊ/u > ů/u
  • Proto-Tumhanic o > ɔ/o > o/ø
  • Proto-Tumhanic a > ɑ > ɒ/øə > å/æ̊
  • Proto-Tumhanic e > ɛ/e > a/æ
  • Proto-Tumhanic ä > ɐ > a/u

TODO: Finals should affect this somewhat

Æ vowels
Front Central Back
unrounded rounded
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