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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, rarely Norrlandish Runic |
| 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 | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-Alveolar | Prevelar | Postvelar | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p~ɸ (p) |
b~β (b) |
p̪~f (f) |
b̪~v (v) |
t (t) | d (d) | ʈʂ (č) | k (k) | q (q) | |||||
| Fricative | θ (þ) | ð (ð) | s (s) | z (z) | ʃ~ʂ (š) | ʒ~ʐ (ž) | x (ch) | ɣ (j) | χ (h) | |||||
| Nasal | m̥ (hm) | m (m) | ɱ̊ (mf/fm) | ɱ (mv/vm) | n̥ (hn) | n (n) | ŋ̊ (nk/kn) | ŋ (ng/gn) | ɴ̥ (hnq) | ɴ (hng) | ||||
| Approximant | w (w) | r (r) | ʎ (y) | ʟ (l) | ||||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Near front | Central | Near back | Back | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i (i) | i: (ī) | ɨ (e) | ɨ: (ē) | u (u) | |||||
| Near-close | ||||||||||
| Close-mid | ||||||||||
| Mid | ɛ: (oe) | ɔ (o) | ɔː (ō) | |||||||
| Open-mid | ||||||||||
| Near-open | ɜ (ä) | |||||||||
| Open | ɑ (a) | ɑː (ā) | ||||||||
Morphophonological Processes
Morphophonemical processes occur in Jāsen, controlling its words and their forms.
Crasis
Jāsen has a simple crasis system, that applies to every vowel combination except those that are with /ɔ(:)/ (with one exception to the exception). Crasis essentially works like this:
- Two vowels of the same quality, regardless of length, when coming together, collapse into an equivalent long vowel (|ɑɑ|>[ɑ:])
- Two vowels of a differing quality, regardless of length, when neither is /ɔ(:)/, always collapse into a long vowel with the quality of the second
- When /ɔ(:)/ occurs before /ɨ(:)/, they collapse into /ɛ:/
- Elsewhere, the combinations are retained.
Sonorification
Jāsen has a process of sonorification, carrying a change of /s z/ > /r/ (Jāsen > Jāris). It is a morphological process, and therefore classically unpredictable by phonological processes.
Other
There are certain other changes in Jāsen, that do not fit into the general regular pattern. They are exclusively morphological, and occur with the numerous morphosyntactical constructions in the language. The most notable ones are the "Fleeting vocalisation" and the numerous "Fleeting spirants".
