Haleth [HLTH]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersHaleth is spoken in Northwestern Ledic.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Haleth
Welcome to Haleth! Ladhae! [ˈlä.ɛ]
Presentation
Haleth (autonym: hàliadh) is my most recent attempt at a conlang, and one I have suprisingly not given up yet. It is mostly inspired by Goidelic languages (Irish and Scottish Gaelic), although it is an a priori conlang. I intend to make it sound different, yet familiar enough to speakers of European languages (my own influencies being English, French and German). Though, no vocabulary is derived from existing languages and grammar is meant to be exotic enough, so while it could sound familiar, it remains quite foreign in all other aspects.
In-universe history
Haleth is a North Halethic language, spoken by clans of hunter-gatherers and pastors in northwestern Ledic (Westernmost part of this world's supercontinent). It stands as one of the last remaining, once widespread Halethic languages, along with its (unnamed) sister language.
This ancient language finds its origins in the great forests of the region. Along its development, Haleth has diversified into a gallery of dialects, spreading from the eastern mountains, on hills and through meadows, as far west as the sea. Despite hundreds of years, most of these dialects remain interintelligible.
Features include:
- broad (plain) and slender (palatalised) distinction in phonology;
- (new) active-stative (split-S) morphosyntactic alignment;
- complex noun inflection patterns (wip);
- complex conjugation (wip);
-a nightmarish Irish-like "traditionnal" orthography (made up for with a "simplified" one, and not counting a possible conscript). an improved romanisation.
Please note that all of the above could change anytime soon, nothing is definitive.
Presentation
Haleth (autonym: hàliadh) is my most recent attempt at a conlang, and one I have suprisingly not given up yet. It is mostly inspired by Goidelic languages (Irish and Scottish Gaelic), although it is an a priori conlang. I intend to make it sound different, yet familiar enough to speakers of European languages (my own influencies being English, French and German). Though, no vocabulary is derived from existing languages and grammar is meant to be exotic enough, so while it could sound familiar, it remains quite foreign in all other aspects.
In-universe history
Haleth is a North Halethic language, spoken by clans of hunter-gatherers and pastors in northwestern Ledic (Westernmost part of this world's supercontinent). It stands as one of the last remaining, once widespread Halethic languages, along with its (unnamed) sister language.
This ancient language finds its origins in the great forests of the region. Along its development, Haleth has diversified into a gallery of dialects, spreading from the eastern mountains, on hills and through meadows, as far west as the sea. Despite hundreds of years, most of these dialects remain interintelligible.
Features include:
- broad (plain) and slender (palatalised) distinction in phonology;
- (new) active-stative (split-S) morphosyntactic alignment;
- complex noun inflection patterns (wip);
- complex conjugation (wip);
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Please note that all of the above could change anytime soon, nothing is definitive.
Language family relationships
[view] About HalethicHalethic is a small language family from Northwestern Ledic (Ledic describes the western part of Herin (the World)). Once widely spoken on the Ledic subcontinent, Halethic has now been reduced to a handful of...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | [b]1 [bʲ]2 b̥ʲ b̥ | t̪ | [d̪]3 d̪̥ | tʲ | [dʲ]4 d̥ʲ | c | [ɟ]5 ɟ̥ | k | [g]6 g̥ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f fʲ | v vʲ | θ7 θʲ | ð8 ðʲ9 | s | ʃ | ç | ʝ | x | ɣ | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l lʲ | [ɫ]10 | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ ɾʲ | |||||||||||||||||
- voiced between sonorants, allophone of /b̥/
- voiced between sonorants, allophone of /b̥ʲ/
- voiced between sonorants, allophone of /d̪̥/
- voiced between sonorants, allophone of /d̥ʲ/
- voiced between sonorants, allophone of /ɟ̥/
- voiced between sonorants, allophone of /g̥/
- <þ> used word-initially (word-initial <th> stands for lenited <t>)
- Never [ð]; [θ~ð̥] word-finally, silent or [ɣ] elsewhere
- Never [ðʲ]; [θʲ~ð̥ʲ] word-finally, [j] or [ʝ] elsewhere
- in the vicinity of velar consonants, allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | u: | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ɔ ɔ: | ||||||||
| Open | ä ä: | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɛɪ̯ | ɑʊ̯ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Haleth. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 HalethOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| a/ä/ | ae/ɛ/1 | ai/ɪ/2 | b/b̥/, /b̥ʲ/, [bʲ]3, [b]4 | c/k/, /c/ | d/d̪̥/, /d̥ʲ/, [dʲ]5, [d̪]6 | e/ɛ/ | f/fʲ/, /f/ | g/g̥/, /ɟ̥/, [g]7, [ɟ]8 | h/h/ | i/j/, /ɪ/ |
| l/lʲ/, /l/, [ɫ]9 | m/m/ | n/ɲ/, /n̪/ | ng/ŋ/ | o/ɔ/ | r/ɾʲ/, /ɾ/ | s/s/, /ʃ/ | t/tʲ/, /t̪/ | þ/θ/10, /θʲ/ | u/ʊ/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
- <ae> is used to represent broad /ɛ/, it may be replaced with <æ>
- <ai> is used to represent broad /ɪ/, it may be replaced with <y>
- voiced between sonorants
- voiced between sonorants
- voiced between sonorants
- voiced between sonorants
- voiced between sonorants
- voiced between sonorants
- in the vicinity of velar consonants
- <þ> used word-initially (word-initial <th> stands for lenited <t>)
