Xenalmen [XENAL]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersXenalmen is spoken by a population of around 500,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Xenalmen
An artlang based on the phonology of Ancient Sumerian made for a fic of mine.
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | t tʰ | k kʰ | ʔ | ||||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʰ | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Xenalmen. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 XenalmenOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| ' ' /ʔ/ | Aa Aa /a/ | AW aw AW aw /ɔ/ | Ee Ee /e/ | Ěě Ěě /ɛ/ | Hh Hh /h/ | Ii Ii /i/ | Ķķ Ķķ /kʰ/ | Kk Kk /k/ |
| KH kh KH kh /x/ | Ll Ll /l/ | Mm Mm /m/ | Nn Nn /n/ | NG ng NG ng /ŋ/ | Oo Oo /o/ | Pp Pp /p/ | PH ph PH ph /pʰ/ | Rr Rr /ɾ/ |
| Ss Ss /s/ | SH sh SH sh /ʃ/ | Tt Tt /t/ | TH th TH th /tʰ/ | TS ts TS ts /t͡s/ | TSH tsh TSH tsh /t͡sʰ/ | Uu Uu /u/ | Yy Yy /j/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
