Šalen [SALN]
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Language type
Not specified
Species
Human/humanoid
About Šalen
A conlang which is simultaneously both extremely regular and really malleable, by someone who hardly knows anything about linguistics. Words can be of a few morphemes or they can span entire sentences, both are possible in this clusterfuck of a language. Enjoy.
Sample of Šalen[view] riset elšorlien kes džadüet elamea etikajse.
Everybody knows the moon’s made of cheese. [view all texts]
Everybody knows the moon’s made of cheese. [view all texts]
Language family relationships
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | h | |||||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | ɨ | u | |||
Close-mid | ø | o | ||||
Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
Open | a |
Stress informationStress does not follow words but morphemes, since sentence-spanning words are possible. If the morpheme contains one or more long vowels, each syllable which has one is stressed. When it comes to morphemes who do not contain those: monosyllabic morphemes do not have stress at all; those composed of two syllables have the stress on the first syllable; and finally, in every other case (3 or more syllables), the stress falls on the second-to-last syllable, except if its vowel is an "ɛ", in which case the stress falls on the first syllable before it whose vowel isn't an "ɛ".
Examples:
fas [fas — as]: the morpheme is not stressed since it only contains one syllable with a short vowel.
maar [maaɾ — bark]: the morpheme is stressed since it contains a long vowel.
gohib [gohib — actually]: "go" is stressed.
ežüse [ɛʒɨsɛ — I am ruined]: "žü" is stressed, since it is the 2nd syllable.
pilesel [pilɛsɛl — bird]: "pi" is stressed, since the second syllable contains an "ɛ", and this is the first syllable before it that does not.
fiirtanræp [fiiɾtanɾøp — communism]: "fii" is stressed, since it contains a long vowel.
Examples:
fas [fas — as]: the morpheme is not stressed since it only contains one syllable with a short vowel.
maar [maaɾ — bark]: the morpheme is stressed since it contains a long vowel.
gohib [gohib — actually]: "go" is stressed.
ežüse [ɛʒɨsɛ — I am ruined]: "žü" is stressed, since it is the 2nd syllable.
pilesel [pilɛsɛl — bird]: "pi" is stressed, since the second syllable contains an "ɛ", and this is the first syllable before it that does not.
fiirtanræp [fiiɾtanɾøp — communism]: "fii" is stressed, since it contains a long vowel.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Šalen. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
ŠalenOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
a Aa /a/ | b Bb /b/ | c Cc /t͡s/ | č Čč /t͡ʃ/ | d Dd /d/ | dž DŽ dž /d͡ʒ/ | e Ee /ɛ/ | f Ff /f/ | g Gg /g/ | h Hh /h/ |
i Ii /i/ | j Jj /j/ | k Kk /k/ | l Ll /l/ | m Mm /m/ | n Nn /n/ | o Oo /o/ | p Pp /p/ | r Rr /ɾ/ | s Ss /s/ |
š Šš /ʃ/ | t Tt /t/ | u Uu /u/ | ü Üü /ɨ/ | v Vv /v/ | z Zz /z/ | ž Žž /ʒ/ | æ Ææ /ø/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |