Haltzeonian

Haltzeonian 
Pronunciation	[hɑldzəniʃen]
Language family	Draconic[disputed]
Writing system	Interastral Standard Alphabet Latin script
Official status
Spoken in	New Maeksikeo (official)
Speaker
Demonym	Haltzeonian
Technical information
Language code	HTZ

 This page contains Interastral Standard characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Interastral Standard characters.

Haltzeonian (English: ˌhɑɫtsɪˈjʌwnɪjən) is a Kardonian language descended from Industrial Kardonian. As the language of one of the core worlds of the Kardonian Empire, it is an important contributor to the standard tongue, Common Kardonian.

Phonology

Main article: Haltzeonian phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial			Alveolar						Post- alveolar/ palatal			Velar			Uvular
Nasal	m			n						ɲ			ŋ
Stop	pʰ	p	pʼ	tʰ		t		tʼ		t͡ʃʰ	t͡ʃ	t͡ʃʼ	kʰ	k	kʼ	qʰ	q	qʼ
Fricative				s			z									χ
Approximant				ðʷ						j			w			h
Lateral				l						ʎ
Trill				r

Notes

• The non-affricate aspirated stops are variably affricated in Haltzeonian dialects; this is particularly the case for stressed aspirated stops.
• Plain stops are usually slack voiced [b̥ d̥ d̥͡ʒ̊ g̊ ɢ̥], but this is somewhat variable, and the primary way these are distinguished is aspiration (or a lack thereof).
  • The plain uvular stop has other allophones in certain dialects - namely [ʁ̊ ʀ̆].

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e	ə	o
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open		ɐ

Harmony

Haltzeonian, like all Kardonian languages, has highly active vowel harmony based on the backness of the stressed vowel. Vowels must match the backness of the preceding stressed /i e jV u o wV/ in the word. This results in the new phones [y ɯ ø ʌ], when a /u i o ɛ/ switches backness.

Orthography

Haltzeonian may be either written using the Latin alphabet or using the Interastral Standard Alphabet.

Phoneme	Interastral Standard	Romanization
ɲ		nh