Lâmian
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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
Sandhi
a | â | e | ê | i | î | o | ô | u | û | |
a | â | â | e | ê | ai | ê | au | ô | au | û |
â | â | â | â | ê | â | ê | â | ô | â | ô |
e | ê | â | ê | ê | ei | î | o | ô | ô | û |
ê | ê | ê | ê | ê | ê | î | ê | â | ê | ô |