Sermardan [SERAR]
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Sermardan
Aradal [aɾaⁿdal]
SermardanAradal [aɾaⁿdal]
Registered by
Rosmariini on 9 February 2020
Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSermardan is spoken in Yamenawa.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sermardan
Aradal is a Sermarda-Farean language spoken by around four million speakers on the highlands of the Sermardan Mountains. Its closest documented relative is Farean, but due to the great distance, they are mutually unintellegible.
Sample of Sermardan[view] Ren ńumürüm, edenäh munüncü. Ímü fawarań sakä fawakäsencä. Edenäh unpek'äncä saddemäy sakä ńumüwüm lenäkay sak'ä. Edenäh nenäń läytä saläkäsencä. Lenäkay sak'ä ama tamwoh, ama lasäraneh, ama fusüh pek'äncä. Run teläpe unȟeläncä, yátancä.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeSermarda-Farean
⤷ Proto-Sermarda-Farean
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Sermardan
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Sermardan[view] About Sermarda-FareanThis is the language family that includes the main languages of the Fareossan valley, and the Northern Sermarda Mountains.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d [ⁿd]1 | k kʼ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ç | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /d/
| Vowels | Front | Near- back | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Near-close | ʊ | |||||
| Close-mid | e: | o: | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||
| Open | a | ɑ: | ||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sermardan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| SermardanOrthography | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Áá/ɑ:/ | Ää/æ/ | Çç/ç/ | Éé/e:/ | Íí/i:/ | Óó/o:/ | Úú/u:/ | Üü/ʊ/ | Bb/b/ |
| Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/d/, [ⁿd] | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | K' k'/kʼ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Ńń/ɲ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
