Phaleran
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| Phaleran | |
| Spoken in: | Phalera |
| Conworld: | Tom Wier's future history |
| Total speakers: | 18 million |
| Genealogical classification: | Tlaspian
|
| Basic word order: | SOV |
| Morphological type: | fusional |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | split |
| Created by: | |
| Thomas R. Wier | 19??-2004 |
Phaleran is a fictional language by Thomas R. Wier. The language is spoken on the fictional planet Phalera (though not on the entire planet) in the Upsilon Andromedae system in the far future.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | Voiced | hm(*) | hn | ||||||
| Voiceless | m | n | ŋ(*) | ||||||
| Stops | Aspirated | ph | th | kh | |||||
| Plain | p | t | k | ||||||
| Glottalized | t' | k' | |||||||
| "Aspirated Glottalized" |
th'(*) | kh'(*) | |||||||
| "Voiced" | b(*) | d(*) | g(*) | ||||||
| Affricates | Aspirated | ch | čh | ||||||
| Plain | pf (*) | tþ | c | č | |||||
| Glottalized | c' | č' | |||||||
| "Voiced" | ĝ (*) | dž (*) | |||||||
| Fricatives | Voicless | f | þ | s | š | x | h | ||
| "Voiced" | ð (*) | z (*) | ž (*) | ||||||
| Laterals | Voiced | l | |||||||
| Voiceless | hl | ||||||||
| Trills | Voiced | r | ř | ||||||
| Voiceless | hr | ||||||||
| Glides | Voiced | w | j | ||||||
| Voiceless | hw | hj | |||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i ī | u ū | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a ā |
Diphthongs: ai au āi āu ei eu eo oi ou
