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Solaric has a very complex phonological system. Ejectives and implosives are dervied from fusions of glottal stops and plosives.<br> | Solaric has a very complex phonological system. Ejectives and implosives are dervied from fusions of glottal stops and plosives.<br> | ||
Syllable structure is (F)(C)(C)(F|L|N|w|y)V | Syllable structure is (F)(C)(C)(F|L|N|w|y)V(C)(C)<br> | ||
Every word is mildly stressed and pitch-accented on the ultimate, penultimate, or antepenultimate syllable, whichever is heaviest because of vowel length and coda consonants. | Every word is mildly stressed and pitch-accented on the ultimate, penultimate, or antepenultimate syllable, whichever is heaviest because of vowel length and coda consonants. |
Revision as of 20:58, 17 February 2010
Solaric Slaèg | |
Spoken in: | North America c. AD 4000 |
Timeline/Universe: | TaylorS's Eridanian Universe |
Total speakers: | Approx. 200 million |
Genealogical classification: | Indo-European
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Basic word order: | SVO |
Morphological type: | agglutinating |
Morphosyntactic alignment: | Split-Ergative |
Created by: | |
Taylor Selseth | 2010- |
Solaric is an Anglic Language spoken predominantly in North America, centered along the middle and upper Mississippi River valley and the lower Ohio and Missouri River valleys.
Phonology
Solaric has a very complex phonological system. Ejectives and implosives are dervied from fusions of glottal stops and plosives.
Syllable structure is (F)(C)(C)(F|L|N|w|y)V(C)(C)
Every word is mildly stressed and pitch-accented on the ultimate, penultimate, or antepenultimate syllable, whichever is heaviest because of vowel length and coda consonants.
Consonants
Labial | Labio-Dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
Stops, lenis | p b | t d | ʧ j | k g | ʔ ' | ||
Stops, fortis | pʰ p | tʰ t | ʧʰ c | kʰ k | |||
Stops, ejective | pʼ p' | tʼ p' | ʧʼ c' | kʼ k' | |||
Stops, implosive | ɓ b' | ɗ d' | ʄʲ j' | ɠ g' | |||
Stops, Nasal | m m | n n | |||||
Fricatives, unvoiced | f f | θ þ | s s | ʃ sh | x kh | h h | |
Fricatives, voiced | v v | ð ð | z z | ʒ zh | ɣ gh | ||
Laterals | ɫ l | ||||||
Trills | r r | ||||||
Semivowels | w w | j y |
Only lenis plosives occur in the syllable coda. R is realized as a flap intervocalically. N assimilates to the point of articulation of a following consonant.
Vowels
Oral Short
Front | Front Rounded | Central | Back | Diphthongs | |
High | i i | y ü | u u | ||
Mid-High | e e | ø ö | o o | ||
Mid-Low | ɛ è | ɔ ò | ɛo eu ɔe oi | ||
Low | a a |
Oral Long
Front | Front Rounded | Central | Back | |
High | iː ii | yː üü | uːː uu | |
Mid-High | eː ee | øː öö | oː oo | |
Mid-Low | ɛː èè | ɔː òò | ||
Low | aː aa |
Nasal
Front | Front Rounded | Central | Back | Diphthongs | |
Mid-High | e eng | ø öng | o ong | ||
Mid-Low | ɛ èng | ɔ òng | ɛo eung ɔe oing | ||
Low | a ang |