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*as always, expand the role of the middle voice | *as always, expand the role of the middle voice | ||
*experiment with reduplication and other innovative ways of playing with an influx of new verbal stems | *experiment with reduplication and other innovative ways of playing with an influx of new verbal stems | ||
==Phonology== | |||
Aemonian's phonology is fairly conservative; though there were many vowels inherited from the Alpine Slavic parent, most have been leveled out to the point where all of the sounds in Aemonian are familiar to those who know virtually any Romance or Slavic language, or even just English. | |||
A notable absence from the phonology is /w/; the Latin sound in words like ''lingua'', ''equus'', etc. have all given way to the more Slavic realization of ''linkva''', '''ekvu'', etc. | |||
===Orthography=== | |||
Aemonian is written using largely the Latin alphabet as extended for South Slavic, with the addition of <ŧ> for the voiceless interdental fricative /θ/, and <đ> is used for the voiced interdental fricative /ð/, instead of for /dʑ/ as is usual in South Slavic. | |||
There is also <ř> to indicate the same sound as in its inspiration in [[:w:Czech language|Czech]], namely /r̝/. | |||
That gives us in Latin order: | |||
'''a b č d đ e f g h i k l m n o p r s š t ŧ u v x y z ž''' | |||
See the alphabet grouped by feature in the tables below. | |||
===Consonants=== | |||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 540px; text-align:center;" | |||
! rowspan="2" style="width: 90px; "| | |||
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |{{sc|labial}} | |||
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |{{sc|interdental}} | |||
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |{{sc|alveolar}} | |||
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |{{sc|postalveolar}} | |||
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |{{sc|velar}} | |||
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!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|unvoiced}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|voiced}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|unvoiced}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|voiced}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|unvoiced}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|voiced}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|unvoiced}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|voiced}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|unvoiced}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|voiced}} | |||
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! style="" |{{sc|stops}} | |||
| '''p''' /p/ | |||
| '''b''' /b/ | |||
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| '''t''' /t/ | |||
| '''d''' /d/ | |||
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| '''k''' /k/ | |||
| '''g''' /g/ | |||
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! style="" |{{sc|nasals}} | |||
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| '''m''' /m/ | |||
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| '''n''' /n/ | |||
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! style="" |{{sc|affricates}} | |||
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| '''c''' /t͡s/ | |||
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| '''č''' /tʃ/ | |||
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| '''x''' /ks/ | |||
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! style="" |{{sc|fricatives}} | |||
| '''f''' /f/ | |||
| '''v''' /v/ | |||
| '''ŧ''' /θ/ | |||
| '''đ''' /ð/ | |||
| '''s''' /s/ | |||
| '''z''' /z/ | |||
| '''š''' /ʃ/ | |||
| '''ž''' /ʒ/ | |||
| '''h''' /x/ | |||
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! style="" |{{sc|liquids}} | |||
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| '''l''' /l/ | |||
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| '''y''' /j/ | |||
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! style="" |{{sc|trills}} | |||
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| '''r''' /r/ | |||
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| '''ř''' /r̝/ | |||
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! style="" |{{sc|approximants}} | |||
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| '''ł''' /ʎ/ | |||
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===Vowels=== | |||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 540px; text-align:center;" | |||
! rowspan="2" style="width: 90px; "| | |||
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |{{sc|front}} | |||
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |{{sc|central}} | |||
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |{{sc|back}} | |||
|- | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|short}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|long}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|short}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|long}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|short}} | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|{{sc|long}} | |||
|- | |||
! style="" |{{sc|close}} | |||
| '''i''' /i/ | |||
| '''ī''' /iː/ | |||
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| '''u''' /u/ | |||
| '''ū''' /uː/ | |||
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! style="" |{{sc|mid}} | |||
| '''e''' /e/ | |||
| '''ē''' /eː/ | |||
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| '''o''' /o/ | |||
| '''ō''' /oː/ | |||
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! style="" |{{sc|open}} | |||
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| '''a''' /a/ | |||
| '''ā''' /aː/ | |||
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[[Category:Aemonian]] | [[Category:Aemonian]] | ||
[[Category:Languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] | ||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||