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Double consonants are spoken a bit longer. | |||
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<br>The diphtongs are the follow: '''ei, ai''' | <br>The diphtongs are the follow: '''ei, ai, au''' | ||
===Phontactics=== | ===Phontactics=== | ||
The following syllable structures are allowed: | The following syllable structures are allowed: | ||
CV, CVV, CVC, CVVC, CCV, CCVV, CCVC, CCVVC, CVCC, CCVCC. | CV, CVV, CVC, CVVC, CCV, CCVV, CCVC, CCVVC, CVCC, CCVCC. | ||
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A syllable must not | A syllable must not begin and end with two plosives: | ||
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<s>'''tept, pte, tkatp'''</s><br> | <s>'''tept, pte, tkatp'''</s><br> | ||
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===Accent=== | ===Accent=== | ||
The Lâmian accent is usually on the first syllable. But if there is a long vowel in a syllable, this syllable is stressed | 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:<br> | ||
'''e'ôrane''' ''swords''<br> | |||
'''son'naiwesh''' ''at the snake''<br> | |||
If there are more long vowels or diphtongs in a word, the syllable with the first is stressed:<br> | |||
''' 'leithîm''' ''of a language''<br> | |||
===Sandhi=== | |||
Revision as of 09:14, 7 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/ |
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
