Chelurche [HCL]
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Chelurche
celurçi [ʈ͡ʂɛ.lurˈt͡ɕi]
Chelurchecelurçi [ʈ͡ʂɛ.lurˈt͡ɕi]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Chelurche
The common ancestor of the Chiru languages, belonging to the Varadic language family of western and central Dawera.
It was spoken in medieval times by tribes inhabiting the lands northeast of Nesyania, however, it was the westernmost Varadic language, hence its name derived from
Proto-Varadic *kie-lorëki ‘of the western mountains’.
It features:
So, basically, anotherday in paradise boring conlang in the neighborhood.
It was spoken in medieval times by tribes inhabiting the lands northeast of Nesyania, however, it was the westernmost Varadic language, hence its name derived from
Proto-Varadic *kie-lorëki ‘of the western mountains’.It features:
- agglutinative morphological typology
- nominative-accusative alignment
- pluractionality
- reduplication
So, basically, another
Language family relationships
Language treeVaradic
⤷ Proto-Varadic
⤷ Proto-Western-Varadic
⤷ Chelurche
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Proto-Varadic⤷ Proto-Western-Varadic
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Chelurche[view] About VaradicA family of languages spoken in southern Dawera, descending from reconstructed Proto-Varadic.
The name Varadic comes from the word varadi or baradi meaning ‘lake’ in a neighbouring unrelated language, Nesyanian.
The name Varadic comes from the word varadi or baradi meaning ‘lake’ in a neighbouring unrelated language, Nesyanian.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p1 | b | t | [d]2 | k | [g]3 | ||||||||
| Fricative | s | [z]4 | ɕ | [ʑ]5 | ||||||||||
| Affricate | ʈ͡ʂ | [ɖ͡ʐ]6 | t͡ɕ | [d͡ʑ]7 | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | [w]8 | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
- pronounced as [b] between vowels
- between vowels, allophone of /t/
- between vowels, allophone of /k/
- between vowels, allophone of /s/
- between vowels, allophone of /ɕ/
- between vowels, allophone of /ʈ͡ʂ/
- between vowels, allophone of /t͡ɕ/
- realization of /u/ next to other vowels
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||
- epenthetic, splitting word-initial consonant clusters
Syllable Structure(C)V(C)
Stress informationThe stress always falls on the last syllable.
OtherWord-initial consonant clusters and geminates are splitted with an epenthetic schwa, for instance: <rki> [rəki], <bbaje> [bəbɑjɛ].
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Chelurche. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| ChelurcheOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/ʈ͡ʂ/, [ɖ͡ʐ]1 | Çç/t͡ɕ/, [d͡ʑ]2 | Ee/ɛ/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/, [g]3 | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Pp/p/4 | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/, [z]5 | Şş/ɕ/, [ʑ]6 | Tt/t/, [d]7 | Uu/u/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
- between vowels
- between vowels
- between vowels
- pronounced as [b] between vowels
- between vowels
- between vowels
- between vowels
