Nurian
Nurian is a Talsmic language descending from Themsarian. It is spoken alongside Zutarlic languages, Clofabic languages and New World Reber Wiebian.
Phonology
Arabo-Lithuanian
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 | ð | z | zʲ | ʐ | ʑ | ɣ | ʕ | |||||
| Trill | r | rʲ | ||||||||||
| Approximant | central | ʋ | ʋʲ | ɻ | j | |||||||
| lateral | ɫ | lʲ | ɭ | |||||||||
Palatalization
- /θ s/ palatalize to /sʲ/
- /ð z/ palatalize to /zʲ/
- /ŋ k g x ɣ/ palatalize to /ɲ̄ tɕ dʑ ɕ ʑ/
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | y, i /ɪ/ | ȳ, ī /iː/ | u, iu /ʊ/ | ū, iū /uː/ | ||
| Mid | o, io /o/ | ao/ō, iō /oː/ | ||||
| Open | e [ɛ] | ae, ē /æː/ | a, ia /ɐ/ | ā, iā /aː/ | ||
ia and e both represent [ɛ], the allophone of /ɐ/ after palatalized consonants.
Diphthongs: ai, iai /ɐɪ/ au, iau /ɐʊ/
Grammar
Somewhat unusually, Nurian is verb-final with prepositions and modifier-modified order.