Lâmian

Lâmian(lâm.:Leithet)
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:/

The diphtongs are the follow: ei, ai

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.