Phaleran

Phaleran
Spoken in:	Phalera
Conworld:	Tom Wier's future history
Total speakers:	18 million
Genealogical classification:	Tlaspian Upsilon Andromedae Phalera Phaleran
Basic word order:	SOV
Morphological type:	fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment:	split
Created by:
Thomas R. Wier	19??-2004

Phaleran is a fictional language by Thomas R. Wier. The language is spoken on the fictional planet Phalera (though not on the entire planet) in the Upsilon Andromedae system in the far future. Related languages are spoken elsewhere on the planet and on the other two inhabited worlds of the Upsilon Andromedae system.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasals	Voiced	hm(*)		hn
	Voiceless	m		n			ŋ(*)
Stops	Aspirated	ph		th			kh
	Plain	p		t			k
	Glottalized			t'			k'
	"Aspirated Glottalized"			th'(*)			kh'(*)
	"Voiced"	b(*)		d(*)			g(*)
Affricates	Aspirated			ch	čh
	Plain	pf (*)	tþ	c	č
	Glottalized			c'	č'
	"Voiced"			ĝ (*)	dž (*)
Fricatives	Voicless	f	þ	s	š		x		h
	"Voiced"		ð (*)	z (*)	ž (*)
Laterals	Voiced			l
	Voiceless			hl
Trills	Voiced			r				ř
	Voiceless			hr
Glides	Voiced	w				j
	Voiceless	hw				hj

Consonants marked with (*) are not true phonemes of the language but artifacts of the writing system and are only encountered in hyperliterate speech.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i ī		u ū
Mid	e		o
Low		a ā

Diphthongs: ai au āi āu ei eu eo oi ou