Anbirese

Anbirese
Anbir² snalltjeongen¹
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Angai
Language family	Anbiric Anbirese

Anglo-Swedo-Icelando-Sino-Korean jokelang; include a xenic layer from a Pama-Nyungan-like language Dårle

milveol1 'bear'

þik1 ’to exist; (with subject) to have’

Use "Fljeongmjeongths" somewhere

hjeonn1 'to bid/try', hjeoll2 'sea'

Am2 hjeonn1 snall1 Anbirjeong2 'I am tryign to speak Anbirese-ly'

Hjeondae iltaren 'Hyundai cars'

Andaegol

Mjeolnir 'big hammer' -- hammer that periodically destroys the world (Sino-Korean myeol 'to wipe out') in Anbirese mythology?

Mjeolbon 'Melbourne'

brjedjeong

sjeong - sky, skjeong - to clean

Daerjeong-eup: town located where our timeline's Dwellingup is

Final stops have a distinction between nasally released vs. unreleased (-mm -nn -nng vs. -p -t -k)

stje /ɕé/ 'money' skjö /skjœ̂/ 'rope'

'll need some Swedish/English-y forms like e.g. tjeolla (my), tjeolls (3sg's), tjeollen (sg. construct), tjeollar (thy), tjeollths (3pl's)

Maybe tjeolli or tjeollu for pl construct

Possessive suffixes should be easy to get, fortunately

Though they might induce final changes like tjeoll becoming tjeol

stjanng /ɕâk̚ŋ̊/ 'color', sjeong-stjangen /ɧʌ̂ŋɕáŋèn/ 'sky blue'

Proto-Anbiric

Have vowel length

-ŭs suffix (-ur in Twetho; final fortition in Anbirese)

Phonology

Initials

Simple initials:

• k g /kʰ k/
• tj/þj dj nj /tɕʰ tɕ ɲ/
• t d þ n /tʰ t θ n/
• p b f v m /pʰ p f v~w m/
• s sj stj h /s ɧ ɕ h/
• r l j /ɾ l j/

[w] is an allophone of hard /v/ after consonants.

/t d tʰ s n/ are dental(ized).

Initial clusters: (s)kj gj (s)pj bj fj (s)mj rj (s)lj snj hj (s)kr gr kl gl kn hn hnj hl hlj hr hrj fr fl br bl (s)tr dr krj grj klj glj frj flj brj blj (s)trj drj knj

Nuclei

Anbirese has 7 vowel phonemes. ni ti thi ki di gi are read as nji tji thji kji dji gji.

	Front		Central	Back
	unrounded	rounded
Close	i /i/	u /ü/	eu [ɨ]	o /o~u/
Mid	ae, e /e̞/	ö /ø~œ/	eo [ə]	eo /ʌ~ɔ/
Open			a /ɐ/

Finals

p d k s l r m n ng mm nn nng ll rr þ /p(unreleased) ð̞ k(unreleased) s l r m n ŋ pm(voiceless) tn(voiceless) kŋ(voiceless) ɬ r(voiceless) θ/ + some Germanicy clusters like -nd, -ld, -llt, ...

Tone

Like Swedish, Anbirese has two tones/pitch accents. In monosyllables, tone 2 is realized as glottalization; in polysyllabic words, the two tones are realized as Swedish tones 1 and 2.