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Rashan was born July 27, 2007. It is the language spoken in Northern Scotland before Gaelic. | Rashan was born July 27, 2007. It is the language spoken in Northern Scotland before Gaelic. | ||
== I. Phonology: == | |||
'''A. Phoneme Inventory:''' | |||
a. Plosives: <nowiki>/p b t d k g/ <p b t d k g></nowiki> | |||
b. Nasals: <nowiki>/m n N J / <m n nh nn ></nowiki> | |||
c. Fricatives: <nowiki>/ f B s z S T C/ <f v s z sh th kh ></nowiki> | |||
d. Affricates: <nowiki>/ts tS dZ/ <ks ksh gh></nowiki> | |||
e. Lateral Approximants: <nowiki>/l/ <l></nowiki> | |||
f. Approximants: <nowiki>/r\ j/ <r y></nowiki> | |||
g. Vowels: <nowiki>/a e i o u ai au oi/ <a e i o u ai au oi></nowiki> | |||
'''B. Allophones:''' | |||
a. [N] occurs medially as an allophone of /n/ | |||
b. [dZ] occurs medially as an allophone of /g/ | |||
'''C. Phonotactics''' | |||
a. No consonant clusters consisting of only fricatives,plosives or approximants | |||
b. The coda and onset cannot consist of more than two consonant sounds | |||
c. Approximants also have to have a Plosive or only the following | |||
fricatives infront of them /f v s z h/ when ending a word. | |||
d. /r\/ cannot come after /p b k s z g/ | |||
e. retroflex consonants can only come at the end of a word | |||
'''D. Syllable Structure''' | |||
CV(C) | |||
Revision as of 05:19, 16 September 2007
| Rashan | |
| Spoken in: | Northern Scotland |
| Time Period: | 4000 B.C.E - ? |
| Total speakers: | extinct |
| Genealogical classification: | Unknown |
| Basic word order: | SOV |
| Morphological type: | semi-fusional |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Ergative-Absolutive |
| Created by: | |
| Colton Booth | July 27, 2007- |
Rashan was born July 27, 2007. It is the language spoken in Northern Scotland before Gaelic.
I. Phonology:
A. Phoneme Inventory:
a. Plosives: /p b t d k g/ <p b t d k g>
b. Nasals: /m n N J / <m n nh nn >
c. Fricatives: / f B s z S T C/ <f v s z sh th kh >
d. Affricates: /ts tS dZ/ <ks ksh gh>
e. Lateral Approximants: /l/ <l>
f. Approximants: /r\ j/ <r y>
g. Vowels: /a e i o u ai au oi/ <a e i o u ai au oi>
B. Allophones:
a. [N] occurs medially as an allophone of /n/
b. [dZ] occurs medially as an allophone of /g/
C. Phonotactics
a. No consonant clusters consisting of only fricatives,plosives or approximants
b. The coda and onset cannot consist of more than two consonant sounds
c. Approximants also have to have a Plosive or only the following fricatives infront of them /f v s z h/ when ending a word.
d. /r\/ cannot come after /p b k s z g/
e. retroflex consonants can only come at the end of a word
D. Syllable Structure
CV(C)
