Shellian [YEL]
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Shellian
Yélian [ˈʃɛlʲan]
Yélian [ˈʃɛlʲan]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Shellian
Yélian is my first and best-evolved language. It is an analytic, agglutinative language.
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | [ɟ]1 | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||
Fricative | ɸ | v | [θ]2 | s | ʃ | [ɕ]3 | [x]4 | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
Trill | r | [ʀ]5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Flap | [ɾ]6 |
- allophone of /c/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /r/
- allophone of /r/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
Mid | [ə]3 | |||||||||
Open-mid | [ɛ]4 | œ | [ɔ]5 | |||||||
Near-open | [ɐ]6 | |||||||||
Open | a |
Polyphthongs | ai: |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Shellian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
ShellianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa A /a/ | Bb Be /b/ | Cc Ce /k/ | Dd De /d/ | Ee E /e/, [ɛ], [ə] | Ff Fa /ɸ/ | Gg Ge /g/, [x] | Ii I /i/, [ɪ] | IY iy IY /ai:/ | Ll La /l/ | Mm Ma /m/ | Nn Na /n/ |
Oo O /o/, [ɔ] | Pp Pe /p/ | Rr Ra /r/, [ɾ], [ʀ] | Ss Sa /s/ | Tt Te /t/ | Uu U /u/, [ʊ] | Vv Va /v/ | Yy Yé /ʃ/, [ɕ] | Zz Za /c/ | Ææ Æ /œ/ | ʻ ʻe /ʔ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |