Omiur

Omiur Omiur
Spoken in:	(country)
Conworld:	(universe)
Total speakers:	5,000,000
Genealogical classification:	(Family) (Branch) (Subbranch) Omiur
Basic word order:	VSO, free
Morphological type:	fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment:	nominative - accusative
Writing system:
Created by:
Starbeam	June 2021

Omiur is a dialect continuum conlang; spoken in and around Omiur City. Despite the relatively small area of use, the language is highly dialectal; with many dialects not quite being mutually intelligble to each other. In addition, there a handful of argots and cryptolects spoken between dialects. All of the Omiur languages are from a single proto-language that diverged over time due to shifts in geography and influence from other cultures.

The city itself is built on canals across various parts of the Omiur bay, with additional communities being built in shores nearby. Many residents are bi-dialectal.

Most of the sections below describe Proto-Omiur, with dialectal variations being mentioned as needed.

Phonology

Inventory

Consonants

	Labials	Alveolars	Palatals	Velars
Nasals	m	n
Plosivs	pʰ p	tʰ t		kʰ k
Fricativs	f	θ s	ç	x
Approximants		r̥ r l̥ l	j	w

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back	Contour
Close	i i:	ɨ:	u u:
Close-Mid	e:	ə	o:	ei eɨ oi oɨ
Open		a a:		ai aɨ

Phonological processes

Consonant Fortition:

• j→ç
• w→f
• f→p
• θ→t
• x→k

All other consonants besides /r̥ r l̥ l/ geminate on fortition.