Hulgunian [HULGN]
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Hulgunian
Hulguniang [xuɮkunjaŋ]
HulgunianHulguniang [xuɮkunjaŋ]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Hulgunian
Hulguniang, also called Koishoredei lik ('Tongue of the Koishorei'), is a language spoken by a group of communities living in a taiga at the base of a mountain range. They share a language with those living higher up in the mountains, but the language has split into two distinct dialects, the taiga lowland dialect and the alpine highland dialect. This page focuses on the taiga lowland dialect.
The sound of Hulguniang is characterized by its breathy quality as a result of the preaspirated/aspirated series of stops and affricates which may devoice preceding vowels and consonants. Grammatically, it is a predominantly head-marking Split-S language with topic-comment word order. Tense is conveyed adverbial while aspect is an inflected category. Hulgunyang also uses a significant amount of derivational morphology to form new words.
The Koishorei are proud of this language that they speak and place great value on spirituality, family, and community, though not at the expense of freedom and individuality.
The sound of Hulguniang is characterized by its breathy quality as a result of the preaspirated/aspirated series of stops and affricates which may devoice preceding vowels and consonants. Grammatically, it is a predominantly head-marking Split-S language with topic-comment word order. Tense is conveyed adverbial while aspect is an inflected category. Hulgunyang also uses a significant amount of derivational morphology to form new words.
The Koishorei are proud of this language that they speak and place great value on spirituality, family, and community, though not at the expense of freedom and individuality.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p ʰp | t ʰt | k ʰk | |||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ʂ | ɕ | x | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s ʰt͡s | ʈ͡ʂ ʰʈ͡ʂ | t͡ɕ ʰt͡ɕ | |||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | [ɬ]1 | ɮ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
- Occurs before preaspirated stops and affricates, or free variation, allophone of /ɮ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | ɤ | ||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɔ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ɔi | ai | ei | au |
- allophone of /a/
Syllable StructureThe basic syllable structure of the root word is CGVC. Most root words consist of three syllables or fewer. Onsets, glides, and coda consonants are all optional, and only the vowel is required as the nucleus of the syllable. All consonants apart from the velar nasal /ŋ/ are allowed in the onset of a syllable. Non-lateral fricatives and affricates are disallowed in the coda of the syllable. The glides /j/ and /w/ are in complementary distribution with /u/ and /i/ and cannot occur before the equivalent vowels or before diphthongs which have a “matching” offglide, e.g. /*jai, *jei, *jɔi, jau/ and /wai, wei, wɔi, *wau/.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Hulgunian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 HulgunianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/p/ | Cc/ʰt͡s/ | CH ch/ʰʈ͡ʂ/ | Dd/t/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/k/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/j/, /i/ |
| Jj/t͡ɕ/ | Kk/ʰk/ | Ll/ɮ/, [ɬ]1 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/ʰp/ | Qq/ʰt͡ɕ/ | Rr/r/ |
| Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʂ/ | Tt/ʰt/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ɕ/ | Yy/ɤ/ | Zz/t͡s/ | ZH zh/ʈ͡ʂ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- Occurs before preaspirated stops and affricates, or free variation
