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nyrjokulda [ˈȵiːɹjɔkʰʊɫˌta]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 2 September 2019
Language type A priori
Species Human/humanoid
About Niryokulta remake here:  Yokulta

Formerly spoken in the Sahar country Akamyokulta.
Sample of Niryokulta[view] Kasiave qáqton gaivelnualdiatned.

Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.[view all texts]
Latest vocabulary
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Language family relationships
Language treeYokultan
 ⤷ Proto-Yokulta
  ⤷ Old Yokulta
   ⤷  Niryokulta
[view] About YokultanSmall family with only one living language, Niryokulta, that however has a bunch of dialects which can be considered separate languages (Ngumyokulta). All languages, including the dead one, are agglutinative and take loans from Duryk and Ngeyv.
[edit] [view] Seivnyr (Central dialect)Similar to Western dialect, spoken on two bigger islands in Southern region. About 1500 speakers.
[edit] [view] Jokuldaiddurikvuźu (Duryk dialect)Spoken in the same area as Upper eastern dialect and also in some places in Durykia. It loaned a lot of words from Duryk and possess certain phonemes standard Niryokulta nor any other dialect has, including voiced stops and fricatives. About 3000 speakers.
[edit] [view] Hatganyr (Eastern dialect)Dialect spoken on two of the biggest and the most inhabited islands and in Akamyokulta capital, Koarátkeiŋ. It has about 25 000 speakers what makes it the most widely spoken dialect. Note there are three subdialects – one spoken on northern island and the other two spoken on southern island and in Koarátkeiŋ's urban area.

Generally, all subdialects' basic feature is dropping word-final /e/.
[edit] [view] Ŋeivenyr (Ngeyv dialect)Dialect with a lot more Ngeyvic loanwords; its phonology is also closer to Ngeyv than it is to standard Niryokulta. Spoken on the northernmost islands, it doesn't have more than 300 speakers.
[edit] [view] Šoalutnyr (Northern dialect)Spoken on western northernmost islands, is considered separate language (Ngumyokulta). About 1500 speakers.
[edit] [view] Painutnyr (Upper eastern dialect)Spoken in the same area as Duryk dialect, but with smaller Duryk influence. About 500 speakers.
[edit] [view] Vainutnyr (Western dialect)The most similar to standard Niryokulta language. Has about 10,000 speakers.
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental		DentalAlveolarAlveolo-
palatal		PalatalVelarUvularGlottalOther
Nasal m     n [ȵ]1   ŋ [ɴ]2    
Plosive p [ʰp] pʰ [b]3     t [ʰt] tʰ [ȶ]4 [ʰȶ] [ȶʰ]5   k [ʰk] kʰ q [ʔ]6  
Fricative   v [θ]7 ð s [ʰs] ɕ [ʰɕ] [ç]8 [ʰç]9 [ʝ]10 [x]11 [χ]12 h  
Affricate       t͡s [ʰt͡s] t͡ɕ [ʰt͡ɕ]          
Lateral approximant       l           [ɫ]13
Lateral fricative       ɬ            
Approximant       ɹ   [j]14        
Blends ŋ͡m
  1. before /i:/, allophone of /n/
  2. before /q/, allophone of /n/
  3. before /m/, allophone of /p/
  4. before /i:/, allophone of /t/
  5. before /i:/, allophone of /tʰ/
  6. allophone of /h/
  7. word-finally after vowels, allophone of /tʰ/
  8. tj/ç/C_
  9. tʰj/ʰç/C_ or hj/ʰç, allophone of /j/
  10. before /ɪ i: i/
  11. word-finally, allophone of /kʰ/
  12. before /q/, allophone of /h/
  13. before consonants, allophone of /l/
  14. allophone of /ɪ/
VowelsFrontNear-
front		CentralNear-
back		Back
Close i i:   ʉ1 ʉ:2   u:
Near-close   ɪ   ʊ  
Close-mid e e:       o o:
Mid     ə̥3    
Near-open æ:        
Open a       [ɑ]4
Polyphthongs ɪe̯ ua̯ uo̯ uɪ̯ au̯ æa̯5 oa̯
  1. mainly in loans from Ngeyv, but also in some native words
  2. mainly in loans from Ngeyv, but also in some native words
  3. found rarely in the language; usually epenthetic
  4. before [ɫ] and /q/, allophone of /a/
  5. /æ:a̯/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Niryokulta. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NiryokultaOrthography [edit]
á
Áá
án
/æ:/		a
Aa
an
/a/, [ɑ]1		b
Bb
bán
/p/, [b]2		č
Čč
čán
/t͡ɕ/, [ʰt͡ɕ]		c
Cc
cán
/t͡s/, [ʰt͡s]		d
Dd
dán
/t/, [ȶ]3		e
Ee
en
/e/		é
Éé
én
/e:/		g
Gg
gán
/k/
h
Hh
hán
/h/, [ʔ], [χ]4		i
Ii
in
/ɪ/, [j]		í
Íí
ín
/i/		j
Jj
já
/j/, [ʝ]5, [ʰç]6		k
Kk
ká
/kʰ/, [x]7		l
Ll
lá
/l/, [ɫ]8		ł
LL ll
hoanlá/allá
/ɬ/		m
Mm
mán
/m/		n
Nn
ná
/n/, [ɴ]9, [ȵ]10
o
Oo
on
/o/		ó
Óó
ón
/o:/		p
Pp
pá
/pʰ/		q
Qq
/q/		r
Rr
rá
/ɹ/		ś
Šš
šán
/ɕ/		s
Ss
sá
/s/		t
Tt
tá
/tʰ/, [θ]11, [ȶʰ]12		tj
TJ tj
[ç]13
ú
Úú
ún
/u:/		ü
Üü
ün
/ʉ/14		u
Uu
un
/ʊ/		v
Vv
vá
/v/		y
Yy
yn
/i:/		đ
Đđ
đán
/ð/		ń
Ŋŋ
ŋán
/ŋ/		'
’
’n
/ə̥/15
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
  1. before [ɫ] and /q/
  2. before /m/
  3. before /i:/
  4. before /q/
  5. before /ɪ i: i/
  6. tʰj/ʰç/C_ or hj/ʰç
  7. word-finally
  8. before consonants
  9. before /q/
  10. before /i:/
  11. word-finally after vowels
  12. before /i:/
  13. tj/ç/C_
  14. mainly in loans from Ngeyv, but also in some native words
  15. found rarely in the language; usually epenthetic
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Typological information for Niryokulta

Copula droppingNone
Morphological typologyAgglutinative
Primary word orderVOS
Pronoun dropping?Yes
Pronoun numbersSingular/Dual/Plural

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