Eridanian

Eridanian is an Anglic language spoken on Epsilon Eridani III in the year AD 4000, on of many languages that evolved from English. It is an Agglutinative language with a rich morphology of prefixes derived from English prepositions, articles, axillary verbs, modals, and other grammatical particles and constructions.

=Setting= In 2389 several hundred thousand Americans and Canadians from around the Great Lakes region fled an increasingly totalitarian Terran Federation government to a nearby Earth-like planet that was as yet unsettled, Epsilon Eridani III, about 10 light-years from Earth. When the Federation collapsed in the early 2500's the infrastructure that allowed for interstellar travel collapsed, resulting in a period later generations would call a "dark age" reminiscent of the one following the fall of Rome. The various interstellar colonies, including E. Eridani III, which came to be called Eridanus, later Rdahns, were cut off from the Solar System and on their own. The various dialects of spoken English, which were already quite different from the written language, "Classical English", began thier divergence into separate languages.

=Phonology=

Consonants
Fortis Plosives: /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ p t k Lenis Plosives: /p t k/ b d g Nasals: /m n ɲ ŋ/ m n ny ng Affricates: /ʧʰ ʧ/ c j Unvoiced Fricative: /ɸ s sʲ ʃ x/ f s sy sh x Voiced Fricatives: /β z zʲ ʒ/ v z sy zh Liquids: /ɫ r/ l rr Semivowels: /j ɻ w/ y r w

Vowels
Front: /ɛ e i/ e eh i Mid: /a ɜ ɝ/ ah a r Back: /ɔ o u/ o oh u Diphthongs: /eu oi iə uə/ eu oi ia ua

Allophony
/k/ weakens to a voiced velar fricative ɣ between vowels. /d/ is realized as a alveolar flap ɾ between vowels. /ɻ/ is realized as a uvular approximant ʁ following a back vowel. /ɫ/ is realized as a velar approximant ɰ in the syllable coda.

Stress and Prosody
Eridanian is a stress-timed language with primary stress located on the first syllable of the root. It also has a pitch accent derived from the elision of consonants. Some roots and morphemes are only distinguished by having a rising falling, or level pitch.

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