Sarim

Sarim is a language spoken in the Sarmanin region in the west of Yandras.

Phonology

Consonants

-Plosives /p t d c ɟ k/

-Nasals /m n ŋ/ <m n ŋ> -Fricatives /ɸ β s ɕ x/ <f v s š h> -Rhotic/Approximants: /r l j/ <r l y> Vowels /i e ɛ a ɔ o u/ Syllable Structure Sarim has a basic (C)V(C) syllable structure; the only compulsory element is a vowel. The following CC sequences occur medially: /pp pn pt pc mm mp mn mŋ ms tt nn nt ns sp st sk ss sm sn sŋ rp rt rc rk cc cn cm kk kt kn km ŋm ŋn ŋŋ ŋs/ Word finally, only /t n s l j k ŋ/ occur. Allophony -Coda /n/ assimilates to the point of articulation of the following consonant, thus /'anke/ is realised as ['aŋke]. -Vowels in stressed syllables and before /r l/ are realised as longer than other vowels. -/r/ is realised as a tap [ɾ] before a vowel and word-finally, but [ɦ] before a consonant. -/c ɟ/ tend to be realised as either palatal affricates [cç ɟʝ] or postalveolar affricates [tɕ dʑ], especially among younger speakers. -Before /s/, nasals tend to be realised as sequences nasal+voiceless stop, e.g. /ms/ = [mps]. Stress and Pitch Accent Stress in Sarim is regular, always falling on the antipenultimate syllable for words more than 3 syllable long, and on the penult for bisyllabic words. Monosyllabic lexical words are stressed, but grammatical particles are not. Sandhi -If two vowels would adjacent over a word boundary, an epenthetic [ʔ] is inserted. -If a word ends with a fricative, and the proceeding word begins in the different fricative, the coda fricative assimilates to become the geminant of the onset fricative. -If a word ends in /h/, and the following word begins with a consonant, the /h/ is realised as [x]. Sample Sarim Words /'dun/ ['dun], dun "man" /'arkic:ɔ/ ['ahkic:ɤ́] arkikkyo̩ "break" /'hemnal/ ['hemna:l]hemnar "Our sister"