Hemackle

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Hemackle Ghmachle
Spoken in:	(country)
Total speakers:	(~ 1000)
Genealogical classification:	(Indo-European) (Germanic) (West) (North Sea) (Hemackle)
Basic word order:	SVO (V2)
Morphological type:	inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Accusative
Created by:
Zeke Fordsmender	2003 to present

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Nasal		m						n						ŋ
Plosive	pʰ	b					tʰ	d					kʰ
Fricative			fʰ	v			sʰ	z	ʃʰ				xʰ	ɣ	χʰ		h
Affricate									ʧʰ	ʤ
Approximants								ɹʷ				j		ɰʷ
Trill																ʀ
Lateral Approximant								l

The CONSONANTS

B - C - CH - D - F - G - GH - H - K - L - M - N - P - Q - R - S - T - W - X - Y - Z

B

<b> is [b].

G

<g> has no set pronunciation, but instead is used to denote a number of glides.

R

<r> is pronounced [ʀ] when alone and in syllable-initial clusters. It is pronounced [χʰ] before [pʰ] and [kʰ], and is silent before [sʰ], [tʰ], [d], [n], and [l], and after [ɛː]. In most dialects it is silent word-finally, though a few now render it [ɹʷ].

There is no agreement in the literature regarding the precise articulation of /w/ and /gh/ (when realized as an approximant). The dispute lies in whether or not the sound may be considered a labialized velar approximant, or a true labiovelar one. Although the complex historical relationship between Proto-Germanic *ɡ and <w> seems to imply a labialized velar approximant, in the present language both [ɰʷ] ( [w] ) and [ɰ͡β̞] may be heard in dialect, and so to avoid confusion the authors have chosen to use the graph <ɰʷ> in describing this sound.

Table 1
íə	ýə									úə
		ǿə							óə
			ɛ́ə	œ́ə				ɔ́ə
					ɐ́ə

     Middle Hemackle used a two pitch accent, believed to have been adopted from native languages of the area sometime after the Hemackles migrated to Scandinavia. The grave accent was falling and applied to words that in Old Hemackle were monosyllabic. The acute accent was applied to words in Old Hemackle which were bisyllabic, including monosyllables with syllabic plural desinences, and rose on the first syllable and then fell around the syllable break. Modern Hemackle no longer makes this distinction, but the rising-falling nature of the Middle system has left its traces on the vowel inventory.

Table 2
			ɪ̥ǽː	ʊ̥ǽː	ʊ̥ɐ́ː
					ɐ́ː

     The Middle Hemackle vowel system broke its long vowels into a stress-bearing one-mora-length monophthong and an unstressed one-mora-length "reduced" central off-glide, probably originally the schwa, although early there seems to have been a tendency toward vowel harmony, especially among the front vowels. (Table 1) In bisyllabic words in which these "long" two-mora-length vowel series bore an accute stress, the stress was systematically shifted toward the off-glide, and the first vowel of the series was reduced to a semivowel. The off-glide was then lowered, either to [ɐ], when the result of a back vowel, or to [æ], from a front vowel, and lengthened. (Table 2)