Becka's Notes

And I'm telling myself it really only needs to be a naming language.

This is for the same world as Mountain/Sea (now named Anjaran temporarily - once I work out how they'd form it the end will likely change) and Island (which I have basically thrown out and started again on - more soon).

Ezærin is the language of another seafaring people who will appear in the same story and who come from further south (since Fantasy World One's major landmasses are southern hemisphere this amounts to them being from temperate or arctic climes). I don't have much detail on them yet.

Consonants
 

		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Alveolo-palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɳ		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	ʈ	ȶ	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	ɖ	ȡ	g
Affricate	voiceless		ts	ʈ͡ʂ	t͡ɕ
	voiced		dz	ɖ͡ʐ	d͡ʑ
Fricative	voiceless		s	ʂ	ɕ		h
	voiced		z	ʐ	ʑ
Approximant			ɹ	ɻ		w
Lateral			l		ȴ

 

Vowels:
 

	Front vowels		Back vowels
	Unrounded	Rounded	Unrounded	Rounded
High	i • ĩ	y • ỹ		u • ũ
Mid	e • ẽ	ø • ø̃		o • õ
Low	æ • ǣ	œ • œ̃	a • ã

Tilde (or macron is the case of ash) represent nasal vowel.

Not sure where the underlining comes from as it's not in my notes and I copied and pasted.

Phonotactics:

• (C)V(C)(C)
• Possible consonant clusters are fricative + stop or affricate and approximants (including laterals) + obstruent.
• The vowels are nasal immediately before or after a nasal consonant in the same syllable (fixed allophony) and sometimes at the end of a syllable (where it has grammatical function).
• Stress is on word root.

That's all I have for now. Any thoughts?