Lasat Der

Background

Lasat Der is part of a project about creating a naturalistic language family. Lasat Der is the proto-language.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Velar	Labialised Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p b	t d	k g	kʷ gʷ	ʔ
Fricative		s	x	xʷ	h
Approximant		ɾ
Lateral		l

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

Phonotactics

The syllable structure in Lasat Der is CV(C(C)).Any consonant can be at the syllable onset. Since syllable onset is obligatory, [ʔ] is used as a default onset so no syllable can begin with a vowel.No diphtongs are allowed. The only allowed consonant clusters in the coda are sonorant+plosive or glottal+plosive combinations.

Orthography

Letters	Pronunciation	Example	Meaning	Phonologic transcription	Phonetic transcription
a	[a]
b	[b]
d	[d]
e	[e]
g	[g]
gv	[gʷ]
h	[h]
i	[i]
k	[k]
kv	[kʷ]
l	[l]	lasat	whale
m	[m]
n	[n]	neget	sea
o	[o]
p	[p]
r	[ɾ]
s	[s]
t	[t]
u	[u]
x	[x]	xurub	house
xv	[xʷ]
'	[ʔ]