Lâmian

Lâmian(lâm.:Leithet)
Pronounced:	léy-thet
Timeline and Universe:	Alternate Earth, ~4000-2500 BC
Species:	Human
Spoken:	South Germany
Total speakers:	at least 500.000
Writing system:	none (but a modified Latin one in this grammar)
Genealogy:	isolated
Typology
Morphological type:	agglutinative
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order:	SOV
Credits
Creator:	Ell Crasses
Created:	June 2007

Lâmian was an isolated language spoken by the ancient tribes of the Lâmians, before the IE tribes came into Europe and destroyed their culture.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stops, voiceless	p	t				c
Stops, voiced	b	d				g
Fricatives, voiceless	f	th	s	sh		ch	h
Fricatives, voiced	v	dh	z
Nasals	m	n				ŋ
Lateral			l
Flap			r
Semivowels	w				i/j/

Double consonants are spoken a bit longer.

Vowels

	front	central	back
high	i î		u û
mid	e ê		o ô
low		a/ɑ/ â/ɑ:/

The diphtongs are the follow: ei, ai, au

Phontactics

The following syllable structures are allowed: CV, CVV, CVC, CVVC, CCV, CCVV, CCVC, CCVVC, CVCC, CCVCC.
A syllable must not begin and end with two plosives:
tept, pte, tkatp
But two fricatives can do this:
fthei air

Accent

The Lâmian accent is usually on the first syllable. But if there is a long vowel or a diphtong in a syllable, this syllable is stressed:
e'ôrane swords
son'naiwesh at the snake
If there are more long vowels or diphtongs in a word, the syllable with the first is stressed:
'leithîm of a language

Sandhi

	a	â	e	ê	i	î	o	ô	u	û
a	â	â	e	ê	ai	ê	au	ô	au	û
â	â	â	â	ê	â	ê	â	ô	â	ô
e	ê	â	ê	ê	ei	î	o	ô	ô	û
ê	ê	ê	ê	ê	ê	î	ê	â	ê	ô
i	ai	â	ei	ê	î	î	e	ô	î	û
î	î	ê	î	î	î	î	î	ê	î	ê
o	au	â	o	ê	e	î	ô	ô	ô	û
ô	ô	â	ô	ê	ô	ê	ô	ô	ô	û
u	au	â	ô	ê	î	î	ô	ô	û	û
û	û	ô	û	ô	û	ê	û	û	û	û

Examples: ri you + -uk and -> rîk and you
kerî shield + -et our + îm GEN + -ane PL -> kerîtîmane of our shields