Lodeen

Background

Inspiration

Lodeen is a joking attempt at an auxlang, intended as an experiment to see what would a simple language to learn and speak be like if everyone was like me. But it was quickly boring so I tried to complexify it a little bit.

Setting

The People

Lodeen speakers live somewhere in the East of Africa, no precise location. There are woods and fields, hot country but no desert nor tropical climate. Lodeen people are very dark-skinned, with slanted eyes. They are one minority tribe in a bigger country (I don’t care which one) and the elders are keeping old traditions, while younger people often go to cities to study and look for work. But there’s a strong sense of family and solidarity and young people feel very attached to their homes and traditions too. I think this people is a bit of a cliché but, whatever. There are about 10,000 of them I think (they’re a minority but not too few either). Their religion is Badzhoism, and they like to use timber for their buildings very much.

Phonology

Lodeen's phonemic inventory is comprised of 15 phonemes :

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Epiglottal	Glottal
Nasal	m			n
Plosive	p			t				k
Fricative		f		s
Affricate
Approximant	w						j
Trill
Flap or tap
Lateral fric.
Lateral app.				l
Lateral flap

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i				u
Near-close
Close-mid	e				o
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open			a