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==Grammar==
==Grammar==
This is where the basic grammar of Jāsen is, involving morphology, syntax, pragmatics and other topics.
This is where the basic grammar of Jāsen is, involving morphology, syntax, pragmatics and other topics.
===Typology===
Jāsen is like every Norrlandish language known, except for Kula Īsen, very agglutinating. It is also usually considered polysynthetic, although it fails to live up to certain criteria.

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Jålisk
Jāsen
Spoken in: Jåland
Timeline/Universe: Modern timeline
Alternate Earth
Total speakers: ~700.000 native speakers
Writing system: Modified Latin alphabet, rarely Norrlandish Runic
Genealogical classification: Unclassified (Norrlandish?)
Typology
Basic word order: VOS
Morphological type: Agglutinating/Polysynthetic
Morphosyntactic alignment: ...
Conlang details
Status: Stub
Lexicon size: 0
Created by:
Jurgen Wattmann, 2012-present

Jāsen is a language spoken in the Scytheland (Jåland) of the northern reaches of the Kingdom of Danemark. It is extremely agglutinating, even countable as polysynthetic.
It is part of the Norrland Sprachbund of languages.
As of 1971, Jāsen is the most spoken Norrlandish language still spoken in Norrland.

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Post-Alveolar Prevelar Postvelar
Stop
p~ɸ (p)

b~β (b)

p̪~f (f)

b̪~v (v)
t (t) d (d) ʈʂ (č) k (k) q (q)
Fricative θ (þ) ð (ð) s (s) z (z) ʃ~ʂ (š) ʒ~ʐ (ž) x (ch) ɣ (j) χ (h)
Nasal m̥ (hm) m (m) ɱ̊ (mf/fm) ɱ (mv/vm) n̥ (hn) n (n) ŋ̊ (nk/kn) ŋ (ng/gn) ɴ̥ (hnq) ɴ (hng)
Approximant w (w) r (r) ʎ (y) ʟ (l)

Vowels

Front Near front Central Near back Back
Close i (i) i: (ī) ɨ (e) ɨ: (ē) u (u)
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid ɛ: (oe) ɔ (o) ɔː (ō)
Open-mid
Near-open ɜ (ä)
Open ɑ (a) ɑː (ā)

Morphophonological Processes

Morphophonemical processes occur in Jāsen, controlling its words and their forms.

Crasis

Jāsen has a simple crasis system, that applies to every vowel combination except those that are with /ɔ(:)/ (with one exception to the exception). Crasis essentially works like this:

  1. Two vowels of the same quality, regardless of length, when coming together, collapse into an equivalent long vowel (|ɑɑ|>[ɑ:])
  2. Two vowels of a differing quality, regardless of length, when neither is /ɔ(:)/, always collapse into a long vowel with the quality of the second
  3. When /ɔ(:)/ occurs before /ɨ(:)/, they collapse into /ɛ:/
  4. Elsewhere, the combinations are retained.

Sonorification

Jāsen has a process of sonorification, carrying a change of /s z/ > /r/ (Jāsen > Jāris). It is a morphological process, and therefore classically unpredictable by phonological processes.

Other

There are certain other changes in Jāsen, that do not fit into the general regular pattern. They are exclusively morphological, and occur with the numerous morphosyntactical constructions in the language. The most notable ones are the "Fleeting vocalisation" and the numerous "Fleeting spirants".

Grammar

This is where the basic grammar of Jāsen is, involving morphology, syntax, pragmatics and other topics.

Typology

Jāsen is like every Norrlandish language known, except for Kula Īsen, very agglutinating. It is also usually considered polysynthetic, although it fails to live up to certain criteria.