Eilean [EILA]
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Eilean
Eilean ['el.ən]
EileanEilean ['el.ən]
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Language type
Creole
Place & SpeakersEilean is spoken by a population of 800 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Eilean
A creole of Scottish Gaelic and English, developed from a small wrecked fleet in the 19th Century (some of whom were monolingual Gaelic speakers, and some of whom were English speakers). The language has a Gaelic set of functional words and syntax (albeit drastically simplified), with a largely closed class of verbs from Gaelic, and a smattering of loans in nouns and adjectives from Gaelic. Certain features are unique to the creole, appearing in neither English nor Gaelic.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | [ʃ] | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡ʃ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | [j]2 | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /h/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | iə | uə |
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Eilean. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 EileanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Àà/a:/ | Cc/k/ | Ee/e/ | Èè/e:/ | Ff/f/ | Ìì/i:/ | Ii/i/ | IA ia/iə/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Òò/o:/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Ùù/u:/ | Uu/u/ | UA ua/uə/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
