Sorem [KSRM]
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Sorem
ksorem [ksorem]
Soremksorem [ksorem]
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[Deactivated User] on 1 January 2020
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sorem
An experiment in small inventories with permissive clusters, plus some grammatical things I'd like to try.
Sample of SoremCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||
| Nasal | m mˀ | n nˀ | (ŋ) | |||||||
| Plosive | p | (b) | t | (d) | k | (g) | ||||
| Fricative | s | (z) | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l lˀ | |||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ ɹˀ | j | w | |||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | u | |||
| Close-mid | e | ø | ɤ | o | ||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||
Syllable StructureMostly CCVC with some exceptions from deletions (of vowels) or loanwords.
Note that, with the exception of a few short, common words and some loanwords, words only end with a vowel or with l, r, m, n, or their glottalized variants, or a plain glottalization (written h).
Note that, with the exception of a few short, common words and some loanwords, words only end with a vowel or with l, r, m, n, or their glottalized variants, or a plain glottalization (written h).
Stress informationVariable, word-initial (root-initial?) stress is most frequent.
Otherlˀ ɹˀ mˀ nˀ are remnants of when all consonants except /j w/ could be geminated in any medial or final position. This distinction has been lost everywhere except here. The glottalization can also sometimes persist when these sounds are moved by morphology into a word-internal position, which can be a dialect marker. There are also a few double lrmn that survive in the middle of roots. These may be pronounced single, glottal, or with a stop component.
Note that h in a non-word-final position is almost always silent, except in speakers of exceptionally conservative varieties. Word-final h is a glottalization.
/b d g z/, as well as /ŋ/ in positions not immediately preceding /k/, are the result of assimilations to a former voiced "back fricative" (possibly a uvular) that spread its voicing to anything it touched (in addition to spreading its "backness" to any nasal it touched) and later disappeared from the language. They are written as pg/gp, tg/gt, gk/gk, sg/gs, mg/gm/ng/gn for historical reasons. They are also present in loanwords, where the normal convention is to write them as letter+g word-initially and g+letter elsewhere. Despite the marginality of these phonemes, they are clearly distinguished by all speakers. It should also be noted that a historical-g next to a consonant cluster spreads its voicing through the entire cluster. An orthographic g that is not adjacent to one of these letters is silent (some may have a distinction between l and gl/lg, however).
Note that h in a non-word-final position is almost always silent, except in speakers of exceptionally conservative varieties. Word-final h is a glottalization.
/b d g z/, as well as /ŋ/ in positions not immediately preceding /k/, are the result of assimilations to a former voiced "back fricative" (possibly a uvular) that spread its voicing to anything it touched (in addition to spreading its "backness" to any nasal it touched) and later disappeared from the language. They are written as pg/gp, tg/gt, gk/gk, sg/gs, mg/gm/ng/gn for historical reasons. They are also present in loanwords, where the normal convention is to write them as letter+g word-initially and g+letter elsewhere. Despite the marginality of these phonemes, they are clearly distinguished by all speakers. It should also be noted that a historical-g next to a consonant cluster spreads its voicing through the entire cluster. An orthographic g that is not adjacent to one of these letters is silent (some may have a distinction between l and gl/lg, however).
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sorem. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SoremOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Éé/e/ | Êê/ə/ | GK gk/g/1 | GM gm/ŋ/2 | GN gn/ŋ/3 | GP gp/b/4 | GS gs/z/5 | GT gt/d/6 |
| Hh/ˀ/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | KG kg/g/7 | Ll/l/ | LL ll/lˀ/ | Mm/m/ | MG mg/ŋ/8 | MM mm/mˀ/ |
| Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/9 | NN nn/nˀ/ | Óó/o/ | Ôô/ɤ/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | PG pg/b/10 | Rr/ɹ/ | RR rr/ɹˀ/ |
| Ss/s/ | SG sg/z/11 | Tt/t/ | TG tg/d/12 | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/y/ | Øø/ø/ | ||
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