Hlential [HLEN]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Hlential
This is a language of the world of the Peninsulae.
Hlential, the language spoken in the core of the powerful Elindian Empire (which controls much of both the north and south coasts of the Central Sea), is notable in many ways. Its phonology and phonotactics allow all consonants to be syllabic, placing no absolute restrictions on series of segmental phonemes. It is consistently head-marking and highly polysynthetic, and features both converbs and switch-reference like the other language in the northwest of the Central Sea.
Hlential, the language spoken in the core of the powerful Elindian Empire (which controls much of both the north and south coasts of the Central Sea), is notable in many ways. Its phonology and phonotactics allow all consonants to be syllabic, placing no absolute restrictions on series of segmental phonemes. It is consistently head-marking and highly polysynthetic, and features both converbs and switch-reference like the other language in the northwest of the Central Sea.
Language family relationships
Language treeNorth Sea
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Proto-North Sea
⤷ Eastern North Sea
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Hlential
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Proto-North Sea⤷ Eastern North Sea
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Hlential[view] About North SeaThe North Sea languages are spoken in the world of the Peninsulae, in the equatorial regions just north of the Central Sea, mostly in the Elindian Empire and the Kingdom of Aksur. There are three groups within the North Sea family: the Ibaxi language...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ pʰ | t tʼ tʰ | k kʼ kʰ | q qʼ qʰ | ||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | θ | s | ʃ | x | χ | h | ||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ɬʼ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [j]1 | [w]2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||
| Open | ɑ | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Hlential. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| HlentialOrthography | |||||||||
| Hh/h/ | Ii/i/, [j] | Kk/k/ | Kʰ kʰ/kʰ/ | Kʼ kʼ/kʼ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Pp/p/ | Pʰ pʰ/pʰ/ |
| Pʼ pʼ/pʼ/ | Qq/q/ | Qʰ qʰ/qʰ/ | Qʼ qʼ/qʼ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TꞭʼ tɬʼ/t͡ɬʼ/ | Tʰ tʰ/tʰ/ | Tʼ tʼ/tʼ/ |
| Uu/u/, [w] | Xx/x/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | Ɛɛ/ɛ/ | Ʃʃ/ʃ/ | Ɑɑ/ɑ/ | Ɬɬ/ɬ/ | Θθ/θ/ | Χχ/χ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
