Imperial Hlorasan [IMHLR]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Imperial Hlorasan
Imperial Hlorasan was the administrative/literary language of the Hlorasan Empire (in the same conworld as 
Sáharían, to which it's distantly related), and it spawned numerous descendants across the area of the empire.
Despite its role as a lingua franca, Hlorasan was considered a difficult language, mostly because of its morphology, with features including:
- four genders (masculine, feminine, neuter, abstract)
- four numbers (collective, singular, paucal, plural), two of which inflected for definiteness
- eight cases for nouns (seven for pronouns)
- many pronouns (a mix of gender + respect), with clusivity/proximate-obviate distinction
- three voices (active, passive, antipassive)
- five or six aspects depending on the verb class (stative or perfective/simple & imperfective, habitual, perfect/resultative, inchoative, cessative)
- a group of "leaning verbs", which included evidentials, moods, and common auxiliaries (e.g. "like", "want", "cause")
Less unusual to its neighbours was its tripartite alignment and extensive use of relative clauses for almost any kind of subordination. Its vowel harmony system was also unusual in its area—the harmony system classed vowels into four sets by height and roundness, with the schwa serving as a transparent vowel (it took the unrounded high set when it was the stressed vowel).
Phonologically, Imperial Hlorasan has palatalized versions of most consonants (including its affricate series), and a voicing contrast in its laterals (along with an only mostly complete shift from lateral fricatives to lateral approximants).
[NB - the grammar tables for Group 2 verbs are not yet in place, because they're a mess]
Sáharían, to which it's distantly related), and it spawned numerous descendants across the area of the empire.Despite its role as a lingua franca, Hlorasan was considered a difficult language, mostly because of its morphology, with features including:
- four genders (masculine, feminine, neuter, abstract)
- four numbers (collective, singular, paucal, plural), two of which inflected for definiteness
- eight cases for nouns (seven for pronouns)
- many pronouns (a mix of gender + respect), with clusivity/proximate-obviate distinction
- three voices (active, passive, antipassive)
- five or six aspects depending on the verb class (stative or perfective/simple & imperfective, habitual, perfect/resultative, inchoative, cessative)
- a group of "leaning verbs", which included evidentials, moods, and common auxiliaries (e.g. "like", "want", "cause")
Less unusual to its neighbours was its tripartite alignment and extensive use of relative clauses for almost any kind of subordination. Its vowel harmony system was also unusual in its area—the harmony system classed vowels into four sets by height and roundness, with the schwa serving as a transparent vowel (it took the unrounded high set when it was the stressed vowel).
Phonologically, Imperial Hlorasan has palatalized versions of most consonants (including its affricate series), and a voicing contrast in its laterals (along with an only mostly complete shift from lateral fricatives to lateral approximants).
[NB - the grammar tables for Group 2 verbs are not yet in place, because they're a mess]
Sample of Imperial Hlorasan[view] Ŋàkàgh mabèm ëmbulÿj vibet'el.
The deer has wisdom for those who listen.[view all texts]
The deer has wisdom for those who listen.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeHlorasan-Erkavic
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Proto-Hlorasan-Erkavic
⤷ Proto-Hlorasan-Velkaran
⤷ Early Hlorasan
⤷ Middle Hlorasan
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Imperial Hlorasan
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Proto-Hlorasan-Erkavic⤷ Proto-Hlorasan-Velkaran
⤷ Early Hlorasan
⤷ Middle Hlorasan
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Imperial Hlorasan[view] About Hlorasan-ErkavicA large and disparate family, with its two main branches being the Hlorasan languages (a narrow group rather comparable to the Romance languages) and the Erkavic languages (a more varied group, with multiple branches within it). There are other minor...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ | n nʲ | ŋ ŋʲ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ | b bʲ | t tʲ | d dʲ | k kʲ | g gʲ | ||||||
| Fricative | f fʲ | v vʲ | s sʲ | z zʲ | ç | ʝ | [x]1 | [ɣ]2 | ||||
| Affricate | p̪͡f p̪͡fʲ | b̪͡v b̪͡vʲ | t͡s t͡sʲ | d͡z d͡zʲ | k͡x k͡xʲ | g͡ɣ g͡ɣʲ | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l̥ l̥ʲ | l lʲ | ||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | [ɬ]3 | [ɮ]4 | ||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||
- before stops and in association with other affricates, allophone of /k͡x/
- before stops and in association with other affricates, allophone of /g͡ɣ/
- Emphatic or by archaizing speakers, allophone of /l̥/
- Emphatic or by archaizing speakers, allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | ɯ | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɔ | |||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Imperial Hlorasan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Imperial HlorasanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| 'a Aa /a/ | 'à Àà /ɑ/ | b Bb /b/ | œ BV bv /b̪͡v/ | œ[ BVY bvy /b̪͡vʲ/ | b[ BY by /bʲ/ | ç Çç /ç/ | d Dd /d/ | d[ DY dy /dʲ/ | ß DZ dz /d͡z/ | ß[ DZY dzy /d͡zʲ/ |
| ;e Ee /e/ | ;ë Ëë /ə/ | 'è Èè /ɛ/ | f Ff /f/ | f[ FY fy /fʲ/ | g Gg /g/ | x GH gh /g͡ɣ/, [ɣ]1 | x[ GHY ghy /g͡ɣʲ/ | g[ GY gy /gʲ/ | h HL hl /l̥/, [ɬ]2 | h[ HLY hly /l̥ʲ/ |
| ;i Ii /i/ | j Jj /ʝ/ | k Kk /k/ | c KH kh /k͡x/, [x]3 | c[ KHY khy /k͡xʲ/ | k[ KY ky /kʲ/ | l Ll /l/, [ɮ]4 | l[ LY ly /lʲ/ | m Mm /m/ | m[ MY my /mʲ/ | n Nn /n/ |
| n[ NY ny /nʲ/ | 'ö Öö /œ/ | 'ò Òò /ɔ/ | ;o Oo /o/ | p Pp /p/ | q PF pf /p̪͡f/ | q[ PFY pfy /p̪͡fʲ/ | p[ PY py /pʲ/ | r Rr /ɹ/ | r[ RY ry /lʲ/ | s Ss /s/ |
| s[ SY sy /sʲ/ | t Tt /t/ | å TS ts /t͡s/ | å[ TSY tsy /t͡sʲ/ | t[ TY ty /tʲ/ | ;u Uu /u/ | ;ü Üü /ɯ/ | v Vv /v/ | v[ VY vy /vʲ/ | w Ww /w/ | ;ÿ Ÿÿ /y/ |
| y Yy /j/ | z Zz /z/ | z[ ZY zy /zʲ/ | ;ø Øø /ø/ | ŋ Ŋŋ /ŋ/ | ŋ[ ŊY ŋy /ŋʲ/ | |||||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- before stops and in association with other affricates
- Emphatic or by archaizing speakers
- before stops and in association with other affricates
- Emphatic or by archaizing speakers
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Imperial Hlorasan Pronouns
Tables and usage notes
29-Sep-23 16:50
