Solaric
Solaric Slaèg | |
Spoken in: | North America c. AD 4000 |
Timeline/Universe: | TaylorS's Eridanian Universe |
Total speakers: | Approx. 200 million |
Genealogical classification: | Indo-European
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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, the Ohio and Missouri River valleys, the American High Plains, the central Rockies, Pittsburgh, and the central Atlantic coast from Washington to New York. Solaric dialects are also spoken in many orbital colonies and on Luna.
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(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 | pʰ p | tʰ t | ʧʰ c | kʰ k | |||
Stops, ejective | pʼ p' | tʼ p' | ʧʼ c' | kʼ 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 | iː ii | yː üü | uːː uu | |
Mid-High | eː ee | øː öö | oː oo | |
Mid-Low | ɛː èè | ɔː òò | ||
Low | aː 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 |