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Solaric

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Solaric
Slèkhk
Spoken in: North America c. AD 4000
Timeline/Universe: TaylorS's Eridanian Universe
Total speakers: Approx. 200 million
Genealogical classification: Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
Anglic
American
Solaric
Basic word order: SVO
Morphological type: agglutinating
Morphosyntactic alignment: Split-Ergative
Created by:
Taylor Selseth 2010-

Solaric is an Anglic Language spoken predominantly in North America, centered along the middle and upper Mississippi River valley and the lower Ohio and Missouri River valleys.

Phonology

Solaric has a very complex phonological system. Ejectives and implosives are dervied from fusions of glottal stops and plosives.

Syllable structure is (F)(C)(C)(F|L|N|w|y)V(V)(C)(C)

Every word is mildly stressed and pitch-accented on the ultimate, penultimate, or antepenultimate syllable, whichever is heaviest because of vowel length and coda consonants.

Consonants

Labial Labio-Dental Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Stops, lenis p b t d ʧ j k g ʔ '
Stops, fortis p t ʧʰ c k
Stops, ejective p' p' ʧʼ c' k'
Stops, implosive ɓ b' ɗ d' ʄʲ j' ɠ g'
Stops, Nasal m m n n
Fricatives, unvoiced f f θ þ s s ʃ sh x kh h h
Fricatives, voiced v v ð ð z z ʒ zh ɣ gh
Laterals ɫ l
Trills r r
Semivowels w w j y

Only lenis plosives occur in the syllable coda. R is realized as a flap intervocalically. N assimilates to the point of articulation of a following consonant.

Vowels

Oral Short

Front Front Rounded Central Back Diphthongs
High i i y ü u u
Mid-High e e ø ö o o
Mid-Low ɛ è ɔ ò ɛo eu ɔe oi
Low a a

Oral Long

Front Front Rounded Central Back
High ii üü uːː uu
Mid-High ee øː öö oo
Mid-Low ɛː èè ɔː òò
Low aa

Nasal

Front Front Rounded Central Back Diphthongs
Mid-High e eng ø öng o ong
Mid-Low ɛ èng ɔ òng ɛo eung ɔe oing
Low a ang