Silōs

Silōs [-]
Timeline/Universe	-
Period	2012–
Spoken in	Republic of Cœlophyce
Total speakers	~5
Writing system	Latin script
Classification	-
Typology
Basic word order	SVO
Morphology	Isolating
Alignment	-
Credits
Created by	Clayton Williams & Jack Bevolo

The Silōs language is an a priori natlang spoken exclusively within the Republic of Cœlophyce. It is an isolating language, although its hypothetical internal reconstruction, Pre-Silōs, has the qualities of a polysynthetic language. Novel vocabulary in Pre-Silōs is very frequently derived from "semantic neighbor assimilation" in which related words tend to influence base words to produce new words.

Phonology

The phonology of Silōs is simple, indeed very limited, having no velar consonants, no secondary articulation, and no phonemic voicing besides for the labiodental fricative. There are five phonemic vowels. In total, this makes for only 16 distinct phonemes, counting the palatal approximant, which can be argued as a mere allophone of the vowel /i/.

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio- dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal
Nasal	m		n
Plosive	p		t
Fricative		f  v	s	ʒ *<z>
Flap			ɾ <r>
Approximant			l		(j <i>)

• *This is standard notation. <j> is also seen, but this is non-standard.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o <ō>
Open		a

In addition, allophones of this system are few: phonemes are rarely realized with a different voicing, despite their free variation. The postalveolar fricative, moreover, mainly occurs in onomatopoeia (though not always).

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