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 Lithuanian and Slavic.

Consonant phonemes

		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

The spelling to the left is the "hard" vowel, and the spelling to the right indicates its "soft" counterpart.

Nurian vowel phonemes

	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	ia/e [ɛ]	ae, ē /æː/	a /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.