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Jålisk
Jāsen
Spoken in: Jåland
Timeline/Universe: Modern timeline
Alternate Earth
Total speakers: ~700.000 native speakers
Writing system: Modified Latin alphabet
Genealogical classification: Unclassified (Norrlandish?)
Typology
Basic word order: VOS
Morphological type: Agglutinating/Polysynthetic
Morphosyntactic alignment: ...
Conlang details
Status: Stub
Lexicon size: 0
Created by:
Jurgen Wattmann, 2012-present

Jāsen is a language spoken in the Scytheland (Jåland) of the northern reaches of the Kingdom of Danemark. It is extremely agglutinating, even countable as polysynthetic.
It is part of the Norrland Sprachbund of languages.
As of 1971, Jāsen is the most spoken Norrlandish language.

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Labiode. Dental Alveol. Postalve. Retrofl. Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyn. Epiglot. Glottal
Plosives p (p) b (b) t (t) d (d) ʈ (tr) ɖ (dr) c (c) ɟ (j) k (k) g (g) q (q)  ) (qg)1 (ʔ)1
Affricates p͡f (pf) b͡v (bv)1 t͡s (ts) d͡z (dz) t͡ʃ (tsh) d͡ʒ (dzh)
Fricatives f (f ) v (v ) s (s) z (z) ʃ (sh) ʒ (zh) ç (hj) ʝ (jy) x (h) χ (qh)
Lateral Fricatives ɬ (ll )
Lateral Affricates
Nasals m̥ (mh) m (m) n̥ (nh) n (n)
Trills r (r )  (rh)
Flaps / taps
Glides Approxim. j (y )
Lateral Appr. l (l )
Co-art. approx.

1These do not occur outside of sound changes and are not found in native words.

All double consonants (except double " l ") are pronounced as geminate. As an aesthetically more appealing way to write certain geminates, the first consonant of each di/trigraph is doubled (jjy, tts, ppf, qqh)

Vowels

Front Near front Central Near back Back
Close i (i) i: (ī) ɨ (e) u (u)
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid ɛ (e)
Open-mid œ (ö) ɔ (o)
Near-open ɜ (ä)
Open a (a)