Chulhaam

Chulhaam
Language family	Isolate
Writing system	Stellar Script, Latin
Official status
Spoken in	Shudrow
Regulated by	CMC
Speaker
Demonym	Chulhaamese
Endonym	Cułām
Number of speakers	41
Technical information
Usage	Signage, Recordkeeping, Official Documents
Language code	CLH

Chulhaam (natively Cułām [ˈt͡ʃu.ɬaːm]) is a language isolate spoken on the southern coast of the Amujan Sea and is an official language of the Republic of Shudrow.

Phonology

Consonants

Chulhaam has 39 total consonants, of which 32 are phonemic:

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m [m̥] ⟨m ḥm⟩	n [n̥] ⟨n ḥn⟩		ŋ [ŋ̥] ⟨ŋ ḥŋ⟩	ɴ [ɴ̥] ⟨ŋ̇ ḥŋ̇⟩
Plosive	p b ⟨p/ḥb b/ẇp⟩	t d ⟨t/ḥd d/ẇt⟩		k g ⟨k/ḥg g/ẇk⟩	q ɢ ⟨ḳ/ḥġ ġ/ẇḳ⟩	ʔ ⟨q⟩
Affricate		t͡s d͡z ⟨ţ/ts/ḥḑ ḑ/dz/ẇţ⟩	t͡ʃ d͡ʒ ⟨c/tx/ḥç ç/dj/ẇc⟩
Fricative	ɸ β ⟨f/ḥv v/ẇf⟩	s z ⟨s/ḥz z/ẇs⟩	ʃ ʒ ⟨x/ḥj j/ẇx⟩	x ɣ ⟨h/ḥw w/ẇh⟩	χ ʁ ⟨ḥ/ḥẇ ẇ/ẇḥ⟩
Liquid	w [ʍ] ⟨ŭ ḥŭ⟩	r [r̥] l ɬ ⟨r ḥr l/ẇł ł/ḥl⟩	j [ç] ⟨ĭ ḥĭ⟩	(w ʍ)

• /χC̬/ is realised as [C̥]
• /ʁC̥/ is realised as [C̬]

Vowels

Chulhaam has 12 total vowels qualities, of which 6 are phonemic, in 2 lengths each:

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː [y yː] ⟨i ī ĭu ĭū⟩	[ɨ ɨː] ⟨ŭi ŭī⟩	u uː ⟨u ū⟩
Mid	e eː [ø øː] ⟨e ē ĭo ĭō⟩	ə əː ⟨y ȳ⟩	[ɤ ɤː] o oː ⟨ŭe ŭē o ō⟩
Low	[æ æː] ⟨ĭa ĭā⟩	a aː ⟨a ā⟩	[ɑ ɑː] ⟨ŭa ŭā⟩

• In closed syllables, /ə/ makes the following consonant syllabic, while /əː/ is realised as [ə]
• Word-initially or after closed syllables, /wi wiː ju juː we weː jo joː wa waː ja jaː/ are realised as [ɨ ɨː y yː ɤ ɤː ø øː ɑ ɑː æ æː]

Script

An example of the Stellar Script

Chulhaam is primarily written in the Stellar Script, which is a featural alphabet.