Nurian
Nurian is a Talsmic language descending from Themsarian.
Phonology
Consonants
Nurian has consonants in hard-soft pairs, similar to Slavic languages.
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Radical | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | |||||||
| Nasal | m | mʲ | n̪ | nʲ | ɳ | ɲ̄ | ŋ | |||||
| Stop /Affricate |
tenuis | p | pʲ | t̪ | tʲ | ʈ | tɕ | k | ||||
| voiced | b | bʲ | d̪ | dʲ | ɖ | dʑ | g | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | fʲ | θ | s | sʲ | ʂ | ɕ | x | ħ | h | |
| voiced | v | vʲ | ð | z | zʲ | ʐ | ʑ | ɣ | ʕ | |||
| Trill | r | rʲ | ||||||||||
| Approximant | central | ɻ | j | |||||||||
| lateral | ɫ | lʲ | ɭ | |||||||||
Palatalization
- /θ s/ palatalize to /sʲ/
- /ð z/ palatalize to /zʲ/
- /k g x ɣ/ palatalize to /tɕ dʑ ɕ ʑ/
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | /ɪ/ | /iː/ | /ʊ/ | /uː/ | ||
| Mid | /o/ | /oː/ | ||||
| Open | /ɛ/ | /æː/ | /ɐ/ | /aː/ | ||
Diphthongs: /ɐɪ/ /ɐʊ/ /iə/ /uə/
Grammar
Somewhat unusually, Nurian is verb-final with prepositions and modifier-modified order.