Selade [LAD]
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Selade
Selade [sɛɺädɛ]
SeladeSelade [sɛɺädɛ]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Selade
A naturalistic a priori conlang that is ended up suspiciously Altaic-like.
(IMHO) Interesting things:
- Almost pure fluid-S alignment
- Signed dialect
- Simple but unique phonology with extensive phonotactic rules
(IMHO) Interesting things:
- Almost pure fluid-S alignment
- Signed dialect
- Simple but unique phonology with extensive phonotactic rules
Sample of SeladeCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p p̰ʼ:2 | [b]3 | t t̰ʼ:4 tʲ | [d]5 | [c]6 | [ɟ]7 | k k̰ʼ:8 kʷ kʲ | [g]9 | ||||||||||
| Fricative | [β]10 | [f]11 | s | z12 | [ʃ]13 | [ç]14 | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡s̰ʼ:15 | [t͡ʃ]16 | t͡ɕ t͡ɕ̰ʼ:17 | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ʍ | ɰᵝ | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
- before velars, allophone of /n/
- varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
- intervocalic, allophone of /p/
- varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
- intervocalic, allophone of /t/
- free variation, allophone of /t͡ɕ̰ʼ:/
- intervocalic allophone of /c/ and of /k/ between a vowel and /i/
- varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
- intervocalic, allophone of /k/
- intervocalic allophone of /p/ in rapid speech
- word-initial allophone of /p/
- only contrasts with /s/ word-initially
- before /i/, allophone of /s/
- before /i/, allophone of /h/
- varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
- before /i/, allophone of /t͡s̰ʼ:/
- varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i̞̙ | u̘ u̞̙ | ||||
| Close-mid | e̘ | o̘ | ||||
| Mid | e̞̙ | ə̥1 | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ̃ | ɔ̃ ɔ̙ | ||||
| Near-open | ɐ̃ | |||||
| Open | ä2 | |||||
- marginal occurance
- harmonically neutral
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Selade. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SeladeOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ä/1 | Ãã/ɐ̃/ | Bb[b]2 | CC cc/t͡ɕ̰ʼ:/3 | CH ch[t͡ʃ]4 | Dd[d]5 | Ẽẽ/ɛ̃/ | Ee/e̘/ | Ěě/e̞̙/ | Ff[f]6 |
| Gg[g]7 | Hh/h/ | Ǐǐ/i̞̙/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | JN jn/ɲ/ | Kk/k/ | KJ kj/kʲ/ | KK kk/k̰ʼ:/8 | KW kw/kʷ/ |
| Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ǒǒ/ɔ̙/ | Oo/o̘/ | Õõ/ɔ̃/ | Pp/p/ | PP pp/p̰ʼ:/9 | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ |
| SH sh[ʃ]10 | Tt/t/ | TJ tj/tʲ/ | TT tt/t̰ʼ:/11 | TTS tts/t͡s̰ʼ:/12 | Ǔǔ/u̞̙/ | Uu/u̘/ | Ww/ɰᵝ/ | Zz/z/13 | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- harmonically neutral
- intervocalic
- varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
- before /i/
- intervocalic
- word-initial allophone of /p/
- intervocalic
- varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
- varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
- before /i/
- varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
- varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
- only contrasts with /s/ word-initially
