Serul [SER]
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[Deactivated User] on 11 November 2014
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Serul
Serul is the lingua franca of the southern region of the largest continent of Maarda, Llewildor. This language's heyday was around the time of the legendary migration, around 2500 years before the present era. This language is the mother tongue of most of my stories' main characters, and is part of the greater Llewildorian language family, which I am still hard at work on.
Sample of Serul[view] É, ì gétuv? Ò lenì kai.
To be, or not to be? That is the question.[view all texts]
To be, or not to be? That is the question.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] Tutyivì (Merchant)Spoken by a large community of Serulean sailors and fisherman, this dialect boasts a massively mixed, and often unintelligible vocabulary.
[view] Vesivì (Vesanist)Spoken by a large isolated community of monk, priests and their families, differing mainly in vocabulary, with more retention of older, Llewildorian vocabulary.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
Plosive | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | ||||||||
Fricative | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | |||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
Open | a | ɑ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Serul. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
SerulOrthography | |||||||||||
Aa/a/, /ə/ | Àà/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Éé/e/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Ìì/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
Nn/n/ | Òò/o/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ùù/ʊ/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |