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Typology Progressing 164 words Selade
Selade
[sɛɺädɛ]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 13 April 2017
Language type A priori
Species Human/humanoid
About Selade A naturalistic a priori conlang that is ended up suspiciously Altaic-like.

(IMHO) Interesting things:

- Almost pure fluid-S alignment
- Signed dialect
- Simple but unique phonology with extensive phonotactic rules
Sample of SeladeCan't find any yet.
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Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
AlveolarPost-
Alveolar
Alveolo-
palatal
PalatalLabio-
velar
VelarGlottal
Nasal m   n     ɲ   [ŋ]1  
Plosive p p̰ʼ:2 [b]3   t t̰ʼ:4 tʲ [d]5     [c]6 [ɟ]7   k k̰ʼ:8 kʷ kʲ [g]9  
Fricative [β]10 [f]11 s z12 [ʃ]13   [ç]14     h
Affricate     t͡s t͡s̰ʼ:15 [t͡ʃ]16 t͡ɕ t͡ɕ̰ʼ:17        
Lateral approximant     l            
Approximant           j ʍ ɰᵝ  
Flap     ɾ            
  1. before velars, allophone of /n/
  2. varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
  3. intervocalic, allophone of /p/
  4. varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
  5. intervocalic, allophone of /t/
  6. free variation, allophone of /t͡ɕ̰ʼ:/
  7. intervocalic allophone of /c/ and of /k/ between a vowel and /i/
  8. varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
  9. intervocalic, allophone of /k/
  10. intervocalic allophone of /p/ in rapid speech
  11. word-initial allophone of /p/
  12. only contrasts with /s/ word-initially
  13. before /i/, allophone of /s/
  14. before /i/, allophone of /h/
  15. varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
  16. before /i/, allophone of /t͡s̰ʼ:/
  17. varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
VowelsFrontCentralBack
Close i i̞̙   u̘ u̞̙
Close-mid  
Mid e̞̙ ə̥1  
Open-mid ɛ̃   ɔ̃ ɔ̙
Near-open   ɐ̃  
Open   ä2  
  1. marginal occurance
  2. harmonically neutral
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Selade. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SeladeOrthography [edit]
Aa/ä/1Ãã/ɐ̃/Bb[b]2CC cc/t͡ɕ̰ʼ:/3CH ch[t͡ʃ]4Dd[d]5Ẽẽ/ɛ̃/Ee/e̘/Ěě/e̞̙/Ff[f]6
Gg[g]7Hh/h/Ǐǐ/i̞̙/Ii/i/Jj/j/JN jn/ɲ/Kk/k/KJ kj/kʲ/KK kk/k̰ʼ:/8KW kw/kʷ/
Ll/l/Mm/m/Nn/n/Ǒǒ/ɔ̙/Oo/o̘/Õõ/ɔ̃/Pp/p/PP pp/p̰ʼ:/9Rr/ɾ/Ss/s/
SH sh[ʃ]10Tt/t/TJ tj/tʲ/TT tt/t̰ʼ:/11TTS tts/t͡s̰ʼ:/12Ǔǔ/u̞̙/Uu/u̘/Ww/ɰᵝ/Zz/z/13
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
  1. harmonically neutral
  2. intervocalic
  3. varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
  4. before /i/
  5. intervocalic
  6. word-initial allophone of /p/
  7. intervocalic
  8. varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
  9. varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
  10. before /i/
  11. varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
  12. varies from slightly laryngealised to weakly ejective
  13. only contrasts with /s/ word-initially
Typological information for Selade

AlienabilityAlienable/inalienable
Coarticulation / Consonant seriesOther (2 distinctions)
Constituent dislocation possibleYes
Morphosyntactic alignmentFluid-S
Noun incorporationBoth

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