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Elranonian
Leíghe Elranonna [ˈɫɪːi̯ə ˌɛð̞ʷɾɐˈn̪ɔn̪ːɐ]
ElranonianLeíghe Elranonna [ˈɫɪːi̯ə ˌɛð̞ʷɾɐˈn̪ɔn̪ːɐ]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Elranonian
Elranonian is an Indo-European-inspired naturalistic language, spoken by millions of people in a fictional world. Despite of it being a part of a fictional world, Elranonian has a number of internationalisms borrowed from various (primarily, European) real-world languages, which are only to be used in a real-world setting and avoided in the fictional one.
Elranonian has a lot of variation within phonology and phonetics, grammar, and vocabulary between regional dialects, sociolects, and registers. (This is chiefly due to the fact that I often cannot choose which options I prefer, so I include all of them, attributing the variation to sociolinguistical reasons rather than finding structural explanations.)
Within the Indo-European-esque framework, I mostly draw inspiration from modern (and classical) European languages, which can be demonstrated by the following examples:
Staying conscious of my approach, I aim at creating a naturalistic language with a general European feel.
Elranonian has a lot of variation within phonology and phonetics, grammar, and vocabulary between regional dialects, sociolects, and registers. (This is chiefly due to the fact that I often cannot choose which options I prefer, so I include all of them, attributing the variation to sociolinguistical reasons rather than finding structural explanations.)
Within the Indo-European-esque framework, I mostly draw inspiration from modern (and classical) European languages, which can be demonstrated by the following examples:
- usage of letters Ää, Öö, Åå, with Oo being often pronounced high and Uu fronted (Swedish);
- extensive usage of h-digraphs (bh, ch &c.), with an acute accent (Áá) indicating historically long vowels (Irish; although these historically long vowels have turned into diphthongs in Modern Elranonian);
- intervocalic lenition of voiced stops into approximants (Spanish);
- a boring 5-case system (Nom., Acc., Gen., Dat., Loc.), with adpositions governing specific cases (Germanic, Slavic languages, Greek, Latin…);
- analytical constructions involving a preposition and a non-finite verb (Celtic languages; WIP);
- both nominal and verbal inflection using principal parts, with there being multiple declension and, possibly (WIP), conjugation patterns (Latin, Ancient Greek);
- great sociolinguistical variation (English, German, Spanish…);
- the list goes on...
Staying conscious of my approach, I aim at creating a naturalistic language with a general European feel.
Sample of ElranonianCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ | [n̪]1 | n nʲ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ | b bʲ | [t̪]2 | [d̪]3 | t tʲ | d dʲ | (k) kʲ | g | ||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f fʲ | v vʲ | θ | [ð]4 [ðʲ]5 | s | ʃ | [ʂ]6 | [ʐ]7 | [ç]8 | x xʲ | ɣ | [χ]9 | [ʁ]10 | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡ʃ]11 | [d͡ʒ]12 | [ʈ͡ʂ]13 | [ɖ͡ʐ]14 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l lʲ | [ɫ]15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | [ɬ]16 [ɬʲ]17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ʋ]18 [ʋʲ]19 | j | w | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r rʲ | [ʀ]20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]21 [ɾʲ]22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | xɸ | [χs] | [xs] |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /dʲ/
- allophone of /rʲ/
- allophone of /rʲ/
- allophone of /xʲ/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /tʲ/
- allophone of /dʲ/
- allophone of /tʲ/
- allophone of /dʲ/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /lʲ/
- allophone of /v/
- allophone of /vʲ/
- allophone of /r/
- allophone of /r/
- allophone of /rʲ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | y: | [ʉ:]1 | u: | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | [ɪ̈]2 | [ʊ̈]3 | ʊ | |||||
| Close-mid | [e]4 e: | [ø]5 ø: | [ɘ]6 | [ɵ]7 | [o]8 o: | |||||
| Mid | [ə]9 | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | [ʌ]10 | ɔ | ||||||
| Near-open | [æ]11 [æ:]12 | [ɐ]13 | ||||||||
| Open | [a]14 | ä ä: | [ɑ:]15 | [ɒ:]16 | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | ʏy | [ɪ̈i]17 | [æʊ̈]18 | [ɵʊ̈]19 | ɪu | [ɞʊ̈]20 | øʏ | ɑʊ | eɪ | ɛe21 |
| ɪi | æɪ | oʊ | äɪ |
- allophone of /y:/
- allophone of /ɪ/
- allophone of /ʏ/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /œ/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ʏ/
- allophone of /ɔ/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ä/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ä:/
- allophone of /ä/
- allophone of /ä/
- allophone of /ä:/
- allophone of /ɑʊ/
- allophone of /ɪi/
- allophone of /ʏy/
- allophone of /ʏy/
- allophone of /ʏy/
- usually merges with /eɪ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Elranonian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ElranonianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Åå/o:/, /ɔ/, [o] | Aa/ä:/, /ä/, [ɑ:], [a], [ʌ], [ɐ], [æ:] | Ää/ɛ/, /e:/, [e], [ɘ], [æ], [ə] | Bb/bʲ/, /b/ | Cc/kʲ/, /k/ | Dd/dʲ/, /d/, [d̪], [ð], [ɖ͡ʐ], [ðʲ], [d͡ʒ] | Ee/i:/, /e:/, /ɛ/, [ə], [ɘ], [e], [æ] | Ff/fʲ/, /f/ | Gg/ɣ/, /g/, [ʁ], [ʀ] | Hh/h/ |
| Ii/i:/, /ɪ/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/, /kʲ/ | Ll/l/, /lʲ/, [ɬʲ], [ɫ], [ɬ] | Mm/m/, /mʲ/ | Nn/n/, /nʲ/, [n̪] | Öö/ø:/, /œ/, [ø] | Oo/u:/, /ʊ/, /ɔ/, /o:/, [o] | Pp/p/, /pʲ/ | Qq/k/1 |
| Rr/r/, /rʲ/, [ʀ], [ɾ], [ʐ], [ʂ], [ɾʲ], [ʁ] | Ss/s/, /ʃ/ | Tt/t/, /tʲ/, [ʈ͡ʂ], [t̪], [t͡ʃ] | Uu/ʏ/, /y:/, [ʉ:], [ɪ̈], [ʊ̈], [ɵ] | Vv/v/, /vʲ/, [ʋʲ], [ʋ] | Ww/w/ | Xx[χs] | Yy/ɪ/, /y:/, /ʏ/, [ʊ̈], [ɵ], [ɪ̈], [ʉ:] | Zz/s/2 | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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