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Note: the Devanagari is just a placeholder. | |||
{{Infobox language | {{Infobox language | ||
|name = Rulhilli | |name = Rulhilli | ||
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|ancestor = [[Old Rulhilli]] | |ancestor = [[Old Rulhilli]] | ||
|creator = Dillon Hartwig | |creator = Dillon Hartwig | ||
| | |script1 = Deva | ||
|notice = IPA | |notice = IPA | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Rulhilli''' /rulˈhɪli/ (<small> | '''Rulhilli''' /rulˈhɪli/ (<small>Rulhilli: </small><span class="nowrap" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" style="font-family:Gentium,'DejaVu Sans','Segoe UI',sans-serif">रुल्हिळ्ळि [[IPA for Rulhilli|[ɾuˈlʱiɭɭi]]]</span>) is a Sinitic language spoken near Ulipur, Bangladesh. | ||
==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
''Rulhilli'' is from ''रुल्हिळ्ळि'', from Old Rulhilli ''रुधिरदि'', from Sanskrit ''रुधिरायानद्याः'' referring to the Brahmaputra river. | |||
==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
|+ Consonants | |||
|- | |||
! !! colspan="2" | [[w:Labial consonant|Labial]] !! colspan="2" | [[w:Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]] !! colspan="2" | [[w:Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]] !! colspan="2" | [[w:Palatal consonant|Palatal]] !! colspan="2" | [[w:Velar consonant|Velar]] | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Nasal consonant|Nasal]] | |||
| colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]] || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced alveolar nasal|n]] || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced retroflex nasal|ɳ]] || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced palatal nasal|ɲ]] || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced velar nasal|ŋ]] | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Stop consonant|Stop]] | |||
| [[w:Voiceless bilabial stop|p]] pʰ || [[w:Voiced bilabial stop|b]] bʱ || [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|t]] tʰ || [[w:Voiced alveolar stop|d]] dʱ || [[w:Voiceless retroflex stop|ʈ]] ʈʰ || [[w:Voiced retroflex stop|ɖ]] ɖʱ || [[w:Voiceless postalveolar affricate|t͡ʃ]] t͡ʃʰ || [[w:Voiced postalveolar affricate|d͡ʒ]] d͡ʒʱ || [[w:Voiceless velar stop|k]] kʰ || [[w:Voiced velar stop|g]] gʱ | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Fricative consonant|Fricative]] | |||
| colspan="2" | || [[w:Voiceless alveolar fricative|s]] || || [[w:Voiceless retroflex fricative|ʂ]] || || [[w:Voiceless postalveolar fricative|ʃ]] || || || [[w:Voiced glottal fricative|ɦ]] | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Approximant|Approximant]] | |||
| colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced labiodental approximant|ʋ]] || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced alveolar lateral approximant|l]] lʱ || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced retroflex lateral approximant|ɭ]] ɭʱ || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced palatal approximant|j]] | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Tap and flap consonants|Tap]] | |||
| colspan="2" | || colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced alveolar tap|ɾ]] | |||
|} | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
|+ Vowels | |||
|- | |||
! !! [[w:Front vowel|Front]] !! !! [[w:Back vowel|Back]] | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Close vowel|High]] | |||
| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]] iː ĩ || || [[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]] uː ũ | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]] | |||
| [[w:Close-mid front unrounded vowel|e]] || [[w:Close-mid back rounded vowel|o]] | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]] | |||
| [[w:Open-mid front unrounded vowel|ɛ]] ɛː || [[w:Open-mid back rounded vowel|ɔ]] ɔː | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Open vowel|Low]] | |||
| colspan="2"| [[w:Near-open central vowel|ɐ]] ɐ̃ || || [[w:Open back unrounded vowel|ɑː]] ɑ̃ | |||
|} | |||
*Nasal vowels may be short or long in free variation. | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
Rulhilli stress falls on the last historically heavy (containing a long vowel or coda) syllable, or last syllable if there are no heavy syllables. | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
Rulhilli maximal syllables are | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
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==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||
Rulhilli word order is predominantly SOV but flexible. | |||
===Noun and verb phrases=== | ===Noun and verb phrases=== | ||