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'''Phaleran''' is a [[fictional language]] by Thomas R. Wier. The language is spoken on the fictional planet ''Phalera'' (though not on the entire planet) in the Upsilon Andromedae system in the far future. Related languages are spoken elsewhere on the planet and on the other two inhabited worlds of the Upsilon Andromedae system. | '''Phaleran''' is a [[fictional language]] by Thomas R. Wier, an American academic linguist specializing in Caucasian languages. The language is spoken on the fictional planet ''Phalera'' (though not on the entire planet) in the Upsilon Andromedae system in the far future. Related languages are spoken elsewhere on the planet and on the other two inhabited worlds of the Upsilon Andromedae system. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
The following chart follows the transcription system used by Wier, rather than IPA. | |||
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Diphthongs: ai au āi āu ei eu eo oi ou | Diphthongs: ai au āi āu ei eu eo oi ou | ||
Revision as of 13:52, 25 March 2014
| Phaleran | |
| Spoken in: | Phalera |
| Conworld: | Tom Wier's future history |
| Total speakers: | 18 million |
| Genealogical classification: | Tlaspian
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| Basic word order: | SOV |
| Morphological type: | fusional |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | split |
| Created by: | |
| Thomas R. Wier | 19??-2004 |
Phaleran is a fictional language by Thomas R. Wier, an American academic linguist specializing in Caucasian languages. The language is spoken on the fictional planet Phalera (though not on the entire planet) in the Upsilon Andromedae system in the far future. Related languages are spoken elsewhere on the planet and on the other two inhabited worlds of the Upsilon Andromedae system.
Phonology
Consonants
The following chart follows the transcription system used by Wier, rather than IPA.
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | Voiced | hm(*) | hn | ||||||
| Voiceless | m | n | ŋ(*) | ||||||
| Stops | Aspirated | ph | th | kh | |||||
| Plain | p | t | k | ||||||
| Glottalized | t' | k' | |||||||
| "Aspirated Glottalized" |
th'(*) | kh'(*) | |||||||
| "Voiced" | b(*) | d(*) | g(*) | ||||||
| Affricates | Aspirated | ch | čh | ||||||
| Plain | pf (*) | tþ | c | č | |||||
| Glottalized | c' | č' | |||||||
| "Voiced" | ĝ (*) | dž (*) | |||||||
| Fricatives | Voicless | f | þ | s | š | x | h | ||
| "Voiced" | ð (*) | z (*) | ž (*) | ||||||
| Laterals | Voiced | l | |||||||
| Voiceless | hl | ||||||||
| Trills | Voiced | r | ř | ||||||
| Voiceless | hr | ||||||||
| Glides | Voiced | w | y | ||||||
| Voiceless | hw | hy | |||||||
Consonants marked with (*) are not true phonemes of the language but artifacts of the writing system and are only encountered in hyperliterate speech.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i ī | u ū | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a ā |
The vowels with macron are long vowels.
Diphthongs: ai au āi āu ei eu eo oi ou
