Pearl [LUM]
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Language type
Other
Species
Human/humanoid
About Pearl
This fanlang is my attempt to flesh out the beautiful Pearl language from the movie Valerian and the City of 1000 Planets. I loved that movie and I loved the Pearls, but there is nothing online about how the language works, so this is my take on what it might look like. But this conlang will likely evolve beyond the movie mythos into its own thing.
-Uses a simple vowel harmony system
-Inspired by French and Finnish
My goal with this language is to make the Pearl parts of the movie understandable.
-Uses a simple vowel harmony system
-Inspired by French and Finnish
My goal with this language is to make the Pearl parts of the movie understandable.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | k | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | ʃ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | ||||||||||||
| Blends | jʉ jʉ: |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: î ǐ | u u: û ǔ | ||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: ɛ̂ ɛ̌ | ɔ ɔ: ɔ̂ ɔ̌ | ||||
| Near-open | ɐ ɐ: ɐ̂ ɐ̌ | |||||
| Polyphthongs | oe | ei | ɐo | ɐi |
- allophone of /ɐ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Pearl. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 PearlOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ɐ/ | AA aa/ɐ:/ | AÂ aâ/ɐ̂/ | AÏ aï/ɐi/ | AÖ aö/ɐo/ | ǍA ǎa/ɐ̌/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d͡ʒ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EE ee/ɛ:/ |
| EÊ eê/ɛ̂/ | EÏ eï/ei/ | ĚE ěe/ɛ̌/ | Ff/f/ | IÎ iî/î/ | Ï ï/i/ | ÏI ïi/i:/ | ǏI ǐi/ǐ/ | Jj/t͡ʃ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | OÏ oï/oe/ | OÔ oô/ɔ̂/ | OO oo/ɔ:/ | ǑO ǒo/ɔ̌/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ʃ/ | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/, /t/ |
| Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ | UÛ uû/û/ | Ü ü/jʉ/ | ÜU üu/jʉ:/ | ǓU ǔu/ǔ/ | Vv/v/ | Xx/h/ | Yy/j/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
2018 Pearl Lexember Roundup 04-Jan-20 13:52
2019 Lexember Roundup 18-Dec-19 22:14
Verb Basics
verb stems
16-Jul-19 14:06Deciphering Pearl 16-Jul-19 14:03
affixes 28-Dec-18 19:44
