Kelanian

Kelanian
Spoken in:
Timeline/Universe:
Total speakers:	???
Genealogical Classification:	(Proto-Language)
Basic word order:	OSV, free
Morphological type:	agglutinating > fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment:	fluid-S
Created by:
Andre	2007

Phonology

Consonants

Kelanian contains 21 consonantal phonemes. The majority, 13, of these are stops. It has labial, dental and velar aspirated and unaspirated stops, both voiced and unvoiced, as well as the glottal stop 3, as in "uh-oh". There is only 1 fricative, s. The remaining 7 are sonorants. It has three nasals, m, n, and ñ (pronounced as is "ring", not as in Spanish "piñata"), each inherently linked to a certain group of stops (m with the labials, n with the dentals, and ñ with the velars). There are two liquids, l and r, and two semivowels w and y.

	Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stops, unaspirated	p b	t d		k g	3
Stops, aspirated	ph bh	th dh		kh gh
Fricatives		s
Nasals	m	n		ñ
Lateral		l
Trill		r
Semivowels	w		y

Vowels

There are 5 vowels, a, e, i, o, and u, which can all be short or long. Long vowels are written with a macron, ā, ē, ī, ō, ū. The two mid vowels, e and o, are tense when they are long, /e: o:/ and lax when they are short /ɛ ɔ/.

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

There are also 8 diphthongs, essentially treated as long vowels. They are formed when i follows a, e, o, or u and when u follows a, e, o, or i. The first element becomes long (the macron isn't written), and the second becomes a semivowel, ai ei oi ui au eu ou iu are /a:j e:j o:j u:j a:w e:w o:w i:w/.