Repilian languages/Owl

The Owl language was spoken in 0 AD in the area that later became the Moonshine Crown. It was the proto-language of many others that survived for a few thousand more years.

Phonology

The phonology of Owl, like most related languages, was small, but its grammar was such that one coudl talk about two phonologies: the surface level and the grammatical one. In grammar, MR languages icluding Owl treat only a few hard consonants as proper consonants, and these are what the noun rotos are made of.

Consonants

Surface consonants are

HARD:    t  k  s  p  n
SOFT:    r  ŋ     v  n  m  l  y  ʔ  ʕ  h

Vowels=

a  i  u  ə

Grammar

All nouns are consonant shells, and they take auxiliary verbs as infixes.

Nouns

All noun roots consist of four consonants, and there is no other information to set them apart. Any root whose surface form appears to have less than four consonants only appears so because the surface form contains a cluster such as /ttt/ which is pronounced as /t:/ rather than /t::/.

Consonants shells

Only hard consonants can be part of the shell. In Owl, these constonants were t k s p n. Any other consonant is treated by Owl's grammar as part of the vowel nucleus of the syllable; as well, /n/ has a second form that also occurs as part of the vowel nucleus.