Chulhaam

Chulhaam
Language family	Isolate
Writing system	Stellar Script, Latin
Official status
Spoken in	N/A
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 was an official language of the Republic of Twanland and of the co-protectorate of Syafeg before either of them was renamed.

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 21 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⟩
High-Mid	e eː [ø øː] ⟨e ē ĭo ĭō⟩	[ɘ ɘː ɵ ɵː] ⟨ĭy ĭȳ ŭy ŭȳ⟩	[ɤ ɤː] o oː ⟨ŭe ŭē o ō⟩
Mid		ə əː ⟨y ȳ⟩
Low-Mid	[ɛ ɛː œ œː]	[ɜ ɜː ɞ ɞː]	[ʌ ʌː ɔ ɔː]
Low	[æ æː] ⟨ĭa ĭā⟩	a aː ⟨a ā⟩	[ɑ ɑː] ⟨ŭa ŭā⟩

• In closed syllables, /ə/ makes the following consonant syllabic, while [e eː ø øː ɘ ɘː ɵ ɵː ɤ ɤː ɔ ɔː] is realised as [ɛ ɛː œ œː ɜ ɜː ɞ ɞː ʌ ʌː ɔ ɔː ə]
• Word-initially or after closed syllables, /wi wiː ju juː we weː jo joː wə wəː jə jəː wa waː ja jaː/ are realised as [ɨ ɨː y yː ɤ ɤː ø øː ɘ ɘː ɵ ɵː ɑ ɑː æ æː]

Script

An example of the Stellar Script

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