Elá [IXELA]
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Elá
Elá [əlä]*
EláElá [əlä]*
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ | t tʼ | k kʼ | q qʼ | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | s | [ɕ]1 | h | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
- before close(-mid) vowels, allophone of /s/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | [e]1 | [o]2 | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | ä | |||||
- next to uvulars, allophone of /i/
- next to uvulars, allophone of /u/
Syllable StructureThe allowed syllable structure of Elá is strictly (C)V. However, Elá disallows hiatus of vowels within a root word, so zero-onset syllables can only exist at the beginning of words and vowel hiatus only happens at word boundaries, including compound words.
Stress informationStress in Elá is lexical with the stressed syllable also bearing a pitch-accent. The pitch is a rising tone on the stressed syllable.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Elá. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 EláOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| a/ä/ | e/ə/ | h/h/ | i/i/, [e]1 | j/j/ | k/k/ | kʼ/kʼ/ | l/l/ | m/m/ | n/n/ | p/p/ |
| pʼ/pʼ/ | q/q/ | qʼ/qʼ/ | r/r/ | s/s/, [ɕ]2 | t/t/ | tʼ/tʼ/ | u/u/, [o]3 | w/w/ | ŋ/ŋ/ | ʔ/ʔ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- next to uvulars
- before close(-mid) vowels
- next to uvulars
Additional NotesA word's stress is always marked with an accute accent on the vowel, even in monosyllabic words.
Compound words are written with a hyphen inbetween their constituents.
Compound words are written with a hyphen inbetween their constituents.
