Zulsheri [WBD]
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Zulsheri
zúlwšwe rwi [t͡su:lʷʃʷe ʀʷi]
Zulsherizúlwšwe rwi [t͡su:lʷʃʷe ʀʷi]
Registered by
Tonio on 3 February 2019
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Zulsheri
A vowel harmony and labial series heavy language I'm planning on using as a major substratum for later work.
Current features of Zulsheri:
- Ergative-absolutive alignment and agglutinative morphology (it's getting more polysynthetic as the grammar develops, but whatever).
- An animacy system distinguishing between animate, inanimate, and plurative nouns.
- Advanced-retracted vowel harmony.
Current features of Zulsheri:
- Ergative-absolutive alignment and agglutinative morphology (it's getting more polysynthetic as the grammar develops, but whatever).
- An animacy system distinguishing between animate, inanimate, and plurative nouns.
- Advanced-retracted vowel harmony.
Sample of Zulsheri[view] Nilànànin šewuswérwíwzúšwzelšilu.
Far away from here there is sun and spring and green forever.[view all texts]
Far away from here there is sun and spring and green forever.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | s sʷ | ʃ ʃʷ | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʷ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l lʷ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | w w̃ | |||||||||||||
| Trill | ʀ ʀʷ | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ɔ ɔ: | ||
| Open | a a: | ɑ ɑ: | ||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Zulsheri. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ZulsheriOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Áá/a:/ | Ââ/ɑ:/ | Àà/ɑ/ | Ee/e/ | Èè/ɛ/ | Êê/ɛ:/ | Éé/e:/ | Hh/ʔ/ | Ii/i/ | Íí/i:/ | Kk/k/ |
| Ll/l/ | LW lw/lʷ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Òò/ɔ/ | Óó/o:/ | Ôô/ɔ:/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ʀ/ | RW rw/ʀʷ/ | Šš/ʃ/ |
| Ss/s/ | SW sw/sʷ/ | ŠW šw/ʃʷ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Úú/u:/ | Ww/w/ | WN wn/w̃/ | Zz/t͡s/ | ZW zw/t͡sʷ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
