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Arlaen
ARLAEN [ɑrlɑɛn]*
ArlaenARLAEN [ɑrlɑɛn]*
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[Deactivated User] on 12 September 2022
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Arlaen
Arlaen is a language I began at age 13 and worked on through my teen years. I've recently come back to it with a deeper and more nuanced understanding, but there are still many words and features I'm proud of my younger self for creating. I had learned Quenya not too long before (shout out to Ardalambion) and Arlaen is heavily inspired by Quenya: highly inflected, with a complex case system. However, even at the beginning I was noticing that my language took on a personality of its own. Over the years that I've matured as a writer and a conlanger, both Arlael and Arlaen have moved away from being Tolkien/Elvish clones respectively, and become a unique expression of my own worldview and aesthetic values.
Set in the fantasy world of Arlael, Arlaen started as a common language for the community of humans and merfolk who live on the western shore of my main continent. (The language name means "sky-sea.") Since then I've made Arlaen a common language for most of my fantasy world, which has also taken on the name "Arlael." (Before, the name only referred to a specific region.)
In universe, Arlaen descended at least from Old Tathrewirian and Old Anwirin, as well as probably a mermish language. (I just realized I should consider Old/Proto Arlaen too, whatever that turns out to be.)
Set in the fantasy world of Arlael, Arlaen started as a common language for the community of humans and merfolk who live on the western shore of my main continent. (The language name means "sky-sea.") Since then I've made Arlaen a common language for most of my fantasy world, which has also taken on the name "Arlael." (Before, the name only referred to a specific region.)
In universe, Arlaen descended at least from Old Tathrewirian and Old Anwirin, as well as probably a mermish language. (I just realized I should consider Old/Proto Arlaen too, whatever that turns out to be.)
Sample of ArlaenCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | b | t | d | k | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | s | x | h | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | rk | sk | sw | dr | tw | kw | θr | nw | rb | vw |
| lw | fr | ls | lv | nd | str | hr | tr | nt | mw | |
| θw | st | sm | kr | rl | ld | lt | vr | sr | rm | |
| lr | lf | fw | lm | lk | br | mr | rd |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | ei | ai |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Arlaen. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ArlaenOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/ | Áá/a/ | AI ai/ai/ | Bb/b/ | BR br/br/ | CH ch/x/ | Dd/d/ | DR dr/dr/ | Éé/e/ | Ee/ɛ/ |
| EI ei/ei/ | Ff/f/ | FR fr/fr/ | FW fw/fw/ | Hh/h/ | HR hr/hr/ | Íí/i/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Kk/k/ | KR kr/kr/ |
| KW kw/kw/ | Ll/l/ | LD ld/ld/ | LF lf/lf/ | LK lk/lk/ | LM lm/lm/ | LR lr/lr/ | LS ls/ls/ | LT lt/lt/ | LV lv/lv/ |
| LW lw/lw/ | Mm/m/ | MR mr/mr/ | MW mw/mw/ | Nn/n/ | ND nd/nd/ | NT nt/nt/ | NW nw/nw/ | Óó/o/ | Oo/ɔ/ |
| Rr/r/ | RB rb/rb/ | RD rd/rd/ | RK rk/rk/ | RL rl/rl/ | RM rm/rm/ | Ss/s/ | SK sk/sk/ | SM sm/sm/ | SR sr/sr/ |
| ST st/st/ | STR str/str/ | SW sw/sw/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ | THR thr/θr/ | THW thw/θw/ | TR tr/tr/ | TW tw/tw/ | Úú/u/ |
| Uu/ʊ/ | Vv/v/ | VR vr/vr/ | VW vw/vw/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | ||||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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