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<s>'''tept, pte, tkatp'''</s><br> | <s>'''tept, pte, tkatp'''</s><br> | ||
But two fricatives can do this:<br> | But two fricatives can do this:<br> | ||
'''fthei''' ''air'' | '''fthei''' ''air''<br> | ||
===Accent=== | |||
The Lâmian accent is usually on the first syllable. But if there is a long vowel in a syllable, this syllable is stressed. |
Revision as of 14:58, 6 June 2007
Lâmian(lâm.:Leithet) | |
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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/ |
Vowels
front | central | back | |
high | i î | u û | |
mid | e ê | o ô | |
low | a/ɑ/ â/ɑ:/ |
Phontactics
The following syllable structures are allowed:
CV, CVV, CVC, CVVC, CCV, CCVV, CCVC, CCVVC, CVCC, CCVCC.
A syllable must not to 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 in a syllable, this syllable is stressed.