Emnian (Modern) [HYLN]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | mʲ mˠ | n̪ˠ nʲ | [ɲ]1 | [ŋ]2 | ||||||||||
| Plosive | pʲ pˠ | bʲ bˠ | t̪ˠ tʲ | d̪ˠ dʲ | c | ɟ | k | g | ||||||
| Fricative | fʲ fˠ | vʲ vˠ | sˠ | ʃ | ç | ʝ | x | ɣ | h | |||||
| Lateral approximant | lʲ lˠ | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾʲ ɾˠ | |||||||||||||
- allophone before [c], [ɟ], allophone of /nʲ/
- allophone before [k], [ɡ], allophone of /n̪ˠ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | u: | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e: | o: | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
| Open | a a: | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | əu | əi |
Stress informationIn Modern Hylian, stress is strongly word-initial except in verbal infinitives and bound pronouns (where stress is final). NOTE that in conjugated verb forms, stress returns to initial position.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Emnian (Modern). This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Emnian (Modern)Orthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/ə/, /a:/, /a/ | Bb/bˠ/, /bʲ/ | Cc/c/, /k/ | Dd/dʲ/, /d̪ˠ/ | Ee/ɛ/, /e:/, /ə/ | Ff/fˠ/, /fʲ/ | Gg/g/, /ɟ/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/, /ə/, /i:/ |
| Ll/lʲ/, /lˠ/ | Mm/mʲ/, /mˠ/ | Nn/nʲ/, /n̪ˠ/, [ŋ]1, [ɲ]2 | Oo/ə/, /ɔ/, /o:/ | Pp/pˠ/, /pʲ/ | Rr/ɾʲ/, /ɾˠ/ | Ss/ʃ/, /sˠ/ | Tt/t̪ˠ/, /tʲ/ | Uu/ʊ/, /u:/, /ə/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- allophone before [k], [ɡ]
- allophone before [c], [ɟ]
Additional NotesHylian Orthography has evolved over millennia and is heavily etymologising in its modern form. This means that the orthography tends to preserve historical components rather than operating on the principles of a phonemic orthography, where graphemes correspond directly to phonemes.
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