Ulan [UNL]
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Ulan
Uln [(u)ɮˑn̪]
Uln [(u)ɮˑn̪]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ulan
Spoken in Rou, an island nation in Xang, North of Toji, South of the one island Xōna possesses and East of Chū-Mèe. Despite not being related to Chū-Bing, Xōtan or Toji, Uln does possess a lot of loanwords that have been altered over time. The grammar and typology in general is to be decided as of now.
Sound samples in Ulan
Some sound samples of Ulan. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Ulan žaxur en.
I speak English
I speak English
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||||
Nasal | m | n̪1 | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t̪2 | d̪ | [ʈ]3 | [ɖ]4 | k5 | g6 | [q]7 | [ɢ]8 | [ʔ]9 | |||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s10 | [z]11 | ʃ | ʒ | x | [ɣ]12 | [χ]13 | [ʁ]14 | ||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | [d͡z]15 | [t͡ʃ]16 | [d͡ʒ]17 | ||||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l̪ | |||||||||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | [ɬ]18 | [ɮ]19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||||
Trill | [r]20 | ʀ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Blends | ja | jɛ | mp | [ɮn̪] | n̪ɪ21 | wa | [χʔɛ]22 | wi | [χʔa]23 | [xʔa]24 |
mb | jo | [xʔɛ]25 | xə | ŋk |
- Becomes /ʊ~u/ before /w/
- Shifted from /θ/
- allophone of /t̪/
- allophone of /d̪/
- Intervocalic /k/>/x/
- Devoiced after /ŋ/
- From an older /k/ /q/ distinction, allophone of /k/
- allophone of /g/
- Intervocalic /t̪/ and /d̪/, allophone of /t̪/
- /t̪/ is dropped after sibilants
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /ɾ/
- allophone of /t͡s/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /ʒ/
- allophone of /l̪/
- /l̪/ before /n̪/, allophone of /l̪/
- allophone of /ɾ/
- /i/ after a nasal is not nasalised
- allophone of /aʔɛ/
- allophone of /aʔa/
- allophone of /aʔa/
- allophone of /aʔɛ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i i: | [y]1 | ʉ | u u: [ũ]2 | ||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]3 | [ʊ]4 | ||||||||
Close-mid | [e]5 | o o: õ | ||||||||
Mid | [e̞]6 | ə7 ə̃8 | ||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: ɛ̃ | [ɜ]9 | ||||||||
Near-open | [ɐ]10 | |||||||||
Open | a a: ã | ɑ11 ɑ: ɑ̃ |
Polyphthongs | ɛw | oʔo | ɪxa | [ɑw]12 | ɑu | oxo | ʉʔʉ | uʔi | axɛ | aʔo |
ɪçɪ | oʔʉ | ʉxʉ | iʔo | uxu | iʔa | aʔɛ | uʔo | axɪ | ɑi | |
oi | ɛʔo | ɛʔɛ | ɛxa | uʔɛ | oʔɛ | aʔu | ɛʔi | iʔʉ | [ai]13 | |
ɛʔa | iʔi | aʔa | ɑxɑ | ɛʔu | ɛxɛ | axa | oʔu | uʔu | oʔi | |
ʉʔa | ʉʔo | iʔu | uʔa |
- allophone of /ʉ/
- allophone of /ʉ/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- Word final only
- Word final only
- allophone of /ə/
- Final /ʁ/, allophone of /ɾ/
- /l̪/ and its allophones are dropped after /ɑ/ but not /a/
- allophone of /ɑw/
- allophone of /ɑi/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ulan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
UlanOrthography | ||||||||||
Aa/a/ | Ää/ɑ/ | AA aa/a:/ | ÄÄ ää/ɑ:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/1 | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ |
Jj/j/ | Kk/k/2 | Ll/l̪/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/3 | Oo/o/ | OO oo/o:/ | Pp/p/ | Qq[q]4 | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ |
Šš/ʃ/ | Tt/t̪/ | Üü/ʉ/ | Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | XK xk/ʀ/ | Zz/t͡s/ | Žž/ʒ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |
- Devoiced after /ŋ/
- Intervocalic /k/>/x/
- Becomes /ʊ~u/ before /w/
- From an older /k/ /q/ distinction
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