Old Rulhilli
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Old Rulhilli | |
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रुधिरदि | |
Pronunciation | [ɾuˈd̪ʱiɾɐd̪i] |
Created by | Dillon Hartwig |
Date | 2021 |
Setting | northern Bangladesh |
Sino-Tibetan
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Early form | |
Old Rulhilli /rulˈhɪli/ (Old Rulhilli: रुधिरदि [ɾuˈd̪ʱiɾɐd̪i]) was a Sinitic language spoken near northern Bangladesh, and the ancestor of Rulhilli.
Etymology
Rulhilli is from रुल्हिळ्ळि, from Old Rulhilli रुधिरदि, from Sanskrit रुधिरायानद्याः referring to the Brahmaputra river.
Orthography
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
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Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | |||||
Stop | p pʰ | b bʱ | t tʰ | d dʱ | ʈ ʈʰ | ɖ ɖʱ | t͡ɕ t͡ɕʰ | d͡ʑ d͡ʑʱ | k kʰ | g gʱ |
Fricative | s | ʂ | ɕ | ɦ | ||||||
Approximant | ʋ | l | j | |||||||
Tap | ɾ |
- /ɳ, l/ only occur in loanwords.
- /s/ is realized as [h] word-finally.
Vowels
Front | Back | |
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High | i iː ĩ ĩː | u uː ũ ũː |
Mid | e | o |
Low | ɐ ɐ̃ | ɑː ɑ̃ː |
ɐi aːi | ɐu ɑːu |
r̩ r̩ː | n̩ n̩ː |
- /n̩/ assimilates in place of articulation to following consonant.
Prosody
Old Rulhilli stress falls on the last heavy (containing a long vowel or coda) syllable, or last syllable if there are no heavy syllables.
Phonotactics
Old Rulhilli maximal syllables are CCVC.
Morphology
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Negation
Numerals
Syntax
Constituent order
Old Rulhilli word order is predominantly SOV but flexible.