Ioleni

Ioleni Ιόλενι (Ióleni)
Timeline and Universe:	Lorech
Spoken:	National language in: Κέμεστον Ιόλενυ (Kémeston Iólenu) An official language in: Ochrís A community language in: Olldair, Telairo amongst others
Total speakers:	19,400,000
Genealogy:	Alumair languages Olenic languages Insular Olenic languages Modern Ioleni
Typology
Morphological type:	Fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Tripartite
Basic word order:	OSV is the most common in most contexts.
Credits
Creator:	A. Ayres
Created:	2012-

The Ioleni language (Ιόλενι - /ˈjɔːlɛni/) - which is sometimes referred to inaccurately as Olenic – is the most commonly spoken Olenic language in Lorech, and is one of the languages of Lorech with the longest attested history. A modern descendant of the ancient Alumair languages that developed in the Iolen isles, it is still spoken in the Kemeston Iolenu by 900,000 people. It is more widely spoken in the Ioleni diaspora – it is one of the four official languages of Ochrís (alongside Ochrocelinese, Okri and Ochrish), spoken by around 7 million there, and by an additional 5 million in Teilaro and Olldair. There are sizeable Iolenophone communities in a number of other nations too, particularly in the central Northern hemisphere.

"Ioleni" comes from the Ancient Alumair word for island, οͅλεν /joːlen/ (Modern Ioleni: όλον /ˈɔːlɔn/); this is due to the fact that Ioleni was the form of Ancient Alumair that developed and diverged in the Xedor archipelago after it was populated by Alumair people, one of several "Olenic" (also from island) variants that emerged during Alumair expansion. The continental Alumair language died - and the nation of Alumair got absorbed into Modern day Olldair - but the island varieties survived. Ioleni and Oleni variants - as spoken on the Old Alumair Peninsulas - are largely mutually comprehensible, but variants spoken in the diaspora are becoming more and more distant from one another, both in terms of vocabulary, grammar and phonology - partially due to the influence of neighbouring languages. This article will consider Ioleni as it is spoken in the Xedor Peninsula.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m						n				ɲ		ŋ
Plosive	p	b					t	d					k	g
Fricative			f	v	θ	ð	s	z	ʃ	ʒ			x	ɣ	h
Affricate					ts	dz
Approximants		w										j
Trill								r
Lateral Approximant								l

Vowels

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
High	i	y							ɯ	u
Near-high								ʊ
High-mid			e							o
Mid					ə
Low-mid			ɛ							ɔ
Near-low			æ
Low					a