Hardmoks [HRM]
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Tetthinkirl on 3 January 2019
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Hardmoks
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Brease vaid a mirrion vears undir I ged dis ding in order again
Brease vaid a mirrion vears undir I ged dis ding in order again
Sample of Hardmoks[view] vir ho ran gevar rage a Isava gbiruniso arive ni.
this is the land in which prophet Isaiah has created crude oil[view all texts]
this is the land in which prophet Isaiah has created crude oil[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ mʶ | n nʲ nʶ | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ pʶ | t tʲ tʶ | k kʲ | q2 | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | s sʶ | ɕ3 | ç4 | x5 | h | |||||||||
| Lateral flap | ɺ6 ɺʲ ɺʶ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ɰ | ||||||||||||
| Blends | k͡p k͡pʲ7 k͡pʶ8 |
- in coda followed by /k/, allophone of /n/
- underlyingly /kʶ/
- underlyingly /sʲ/
- underlyingly /hʲ/
- underlyingly /hʶ/
- In coda: [l] before voiced consonants, [ɬ~s] before voiceless and [ð̞] finally/before [ɰ j]
- palatalised /k͡p/ is pronounced exactly the same as regular /k͡p/, but fronts the following vowel
- Uvularised /k͡p/ is pronounced exactly the same as tenuis /k͡p/, but backs the following vowel
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | [i]1 | [ʉ]2 | [ɯ]3 | [u]4 | ||
| Close-mid | [e]5 | [ɵ]6 | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | [ʌ]7 | [ɔ]8 | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
- palatalised, allophone of /ə/
- after palatalised labials, allophone of /ə/
- velar(ised), allophone of /ə/
- after tenuis labials, allophone of /ə/
- palatalised allophone of /a/
- after palatalised labials, allophone of /a/
- velar(ised), allophone of /a/
- after tenuis labials, allophone of /a/
Syllable Structure(C)V(S), where S is a sonorant /ɺ n/. Hardmoks has a strong leaning towards open CV syllables, closed syllables can never occur before an onsetless syllable (V or VS). Additionally, only /a/ can appear in V or VS syllables; while glottal stops are distinguished from null onset before /a/, only the former can occur before a schwa (/ʔə/): the syllables *ə, əɺ, ən do not exist.
Stress informationHardmoks is heavily syllable-timed and there is very little difference in length and loudness between the syllables of a word. However, there is a (nonphonemic) word tone/pitch among some speakers. Depending on the amount of syllables in the word, its structure generally follows this pattern: [HL HLF HLFL HLLFL HLFLFL HLLFLFL] (where F is a falling syllable, H is a high one and L is a low toned syllable).
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Hardmoks. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 HardmoksOrthography | ||||||||
| h Hh /h/, /x/1, /ç/2 | s Ss /s/, /sʶ/, /ɕ/3 | d Dd /t/, /tʲ/, /tʶ/ | g Gg /k/, /kʲ/, /q/4 | n Nn /n/, /nʲ/, /nʶ/, [ŋ]5 | b Bb /p/, /pʲ/, /pʶ/ | m Mm /m/, /mʶ/, /mʲ/ | k Vv /j/, /ɰ/ | r Rr /ɺ/6, /ɺʲ/, /ɺʶ/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | ||||||||
- underlyingly /hʶ/
- underlyingly /hʲ/
- underlyingly /sʲ/
- underlyingly /kʶ/
- in coda followed by /k/
- In coda: [l] before voiced consonants, [ɬ~s] before voiceless and [ð̞] finally/before [ɰ j]
