Svalbardian

Svalbardian is a fictional language by Jörg Rhiemeier which represents the language of the indigenous people of the Svalbard archipelago in the League of Lost Languages (in reality, Svalbard has no indigenous population). Svalbardian is an isolate; no relatives are known. The language has borrowed a few words from Old Albic (e.g., kiwi 'ship' < Old Albic ciph) and recently from Norwegian (e.g., muru 'snowmobile' < Norw. motor).

So far, only a phonology sketch exists.

Phonology

Consonants

Svalbardian has only five consonant phonemes, though some of these have very broad allophony.

	Labial	Alveolar	Velar
Oral	p~b~ɸ~w	t~d~s~r	k~g~x~ɣ
Nasal	m	n~ŋ

Allophony: The oral consonants are realized as

• voiced stops [b d g] after nasala
• fricatives [ɸ s x] before oral consonants and word-finally
• glides [w r ɣ] intervocally
• voiceless stops [p t k] elsewhere

The non-labial nasal is [ŋ] before [g] and [n] elsewhere,