Alternate Slumian
This article is about the language, for the country see Alternate Slumia.
| Alternate Slumian Ewislun | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | [ˈe̞.wi.slɯn] |
| Language family | Slumian |
| Early form(s) | Modern Slumian Modern Lanetian |
| Era | ~1900 to today |
| Writing system | Ewislunkli[1] |
| Official status | |
| Spoken in | Alternate Slumia (Ewislun) |
| Regulated by | Government of Alternate Slumia |
| Speaker | |
| Demonym | Alternate Slumian |
| Endonym | Ewislun |
| Number of speakers | ~100'000 |
| Technical information | |
| Language code | ASm |
Alternate Slumian (ASm: Ewislun /e.wi.slɯn/) is a language written in Ewislunkli and spoken in Alternate Slumia. It is an evolution Modern Slumian with heavy influence from Lanetian, both of which were spoken in Slumia, outside of Nguhcraft.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar-Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Palatalized | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | /ɲ/ ⟨nj⟩ | ŋ* | |
| Plosive | p | t | k | ||
| Fricative | f | s | h | ||
| Liquid | w | l | /lʲ/ ⟨lj⟩ | j | |
| Trill | r | ||||
*only appears in codas
Word final nasals are all romanized as ⟨n⟩. Nasal distinction in codas is non-phonemic due to nasal assimilation. Word-final nasals usually assimilate to the next word or, if followed by a vowel or a pause, default to [n]
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Rounded | |||
| Close | i | /ʉ/ ⟨y⟩ | /ɯ/* ⟨u⟩ | /u/ ⟨yo⟩* |
| Mid | e | ə | /ɤ/ ⟨eo⟩* | o |
| Open | a | /ʌ/ ⟨ao⟩* | ||
*appears as a result of umlauting, may either be romanized as the phoneme without umlaut with "o" after it; /ɤ/ ⟨eo⟩, or as the phoneme without the sound change, but with the umlauting diacritic; /ɤ/ ⟨ë⟩. The only exception is /ɯ/, which can occur either as a historical /u/ or as an umlauted /i/ and is always romanized as ⟨u⟩ for consistency, even if it occurs as a result of umlauting.
Any vowel except ə can be nasalized, which is romanized with a tilde. In digraphs, the first letter gets the tilde. If spelled with the umlaut diacritic, the tilde should go over the umlaut.
Diphthongs
Any vowel except schwa may appear in a diphthong with /ʊ/. That's romanized as a ⟨Vu⟩ digraph, where V is the romanization of the first vowel.
Writing
In this article, for readability, a romanization is included alongside excerpts. This romanization is described in the phonology section. Usually, Alternate Slumian should be written using the Slumian Semisyllabary.