Walaan

General information
Valaan is a syllabic language. With 86 syllabograms and 2 dialects the system covers all possible syllables in Valaan.

Writting System
The writting system of Valaan is syllabary. There is also some romanizated systems. The most common and accepted one is Barleimann. But another romanization system, Darlis-Perol, is also well known.

Here's all possible syllables in Valaan. Inside a cell, the upper one is Barleimann while the lower one is Darlis-Perol. The argument of these romanizations continues nowadays, but Barleimann is common in European and USA, while Darlis-Parol is well known and most used in Asia.

Since voiced consonants are not distinguished from voiceless ones, Barleimann tends not to use any voiced letter (such as d, g, v) to represent those unaspirated consonants. It used a letter "x" instead. Whereas unaspirated consonants are referred to by voiced letter in Darlis-Parol. For new learns, the term "txa" would be hard to read and "da" is more easy to pronounce, but he would never know that "da" isn't actually voiced in Valaan. "da" is unaspirated and sounds like the actually "d" in English, but not voiced.

The three syllabic consonants in Valaan are represented as "mm, nn, and ll" in Barleimann but "m, n, and l" in Darlis-Parol. Though the former clearly indicates that these are syllabic (thus doubled), but the latter is more famaliar to new learners since there's no syllabic consonants except /m̩/ in some Chinese dialect.

All the romanized Valaan below are Barleimann.

Diphthongs and Long Vowels
Two different vowels together become diphthong. When two same vowels meet, they can be regarded as one lengthene vowel. There can't be any syllabic consonants (mm, nn, and ll) after a lengthened syllable. All the four terms in the chart above are different in Valaan.

Gemination
Some consonants (all of them are plosive of affricative) in Valaan can be lengthened as well. These long consonants will never appear in the head of a word, and to most people is sounds like the vowel before the long consonant is shortened. This feature is represented by a little reverse "c".

The pitch of the vowel before the long consonants is always higher than usual. The length of both vowels and consonants is distinctive in Valaan.

Syllables
Most syllables in Valaan is open (CV). Some syllables don't exist in Valaan.
 * Y: yi, yeo
 * W: wu, weo
 * H: hi, hu, heo

Nouns
Nouns of Valaan are pretty easy. There is no declension at all.

Though there are still particles that can be attached to the nouns.

Verbs
There are currently 3 types of verbs: a-verbs ,and eya-verbs, and some irregular verbs.

Adjective
Adjectives of Valaan share the same conjugation. They can be regarded as a stem with a verb (or copula) to following. Adjectives are put in front of modified noun. The adjectives are glue together witht eh nouns. When there are plural adjectives modifying the same noun, the particle cha will be introduced to separate them.
 * Latemien. (red flower.)
 * Latechafasemien. (red and tiny flower.)

Syntax
(T)SVO

Vocabulary
Valaan/Lexicon

Example text
Letomanaa tumeta yayefrielis mai?

''Perhaps she is my girl named Elise. 彼女こそ私のエリスなのだろうか？''