Gelpunian

General information
The Gelpunian language (Gelpūnia nāstretat, gelpūnia miva) is a language spoken almost by 3 hundred millions of inhabitats of imaginary planet Laša, especially in the Gelpunian kingdom.

It belongs to Gelpunian language family, and it's slightly influenced by Slavic, Germanic, Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian, Quenya, Coptic and Finnish languages.

The language originated from Protogelpunian language, that is the base for other languages of Gelpunian family. The language had nasal vowels, which retain nowadays, but can only be found in other Gelpunian family languages.

Alphabet
A Æ B C Ç Č D Ḑ E Ë F G Ğ H I Ì K Kh L Ļ M N Ñ O Ö P R S Sh Ş Š T Ţ U Ü V W X Y Z Zh Ż Ž

Phonotactics with IPA
The vowels with a macron/double acute acent are spelled longly. The Apostrophe between two letters cancels the pronuncation.

R between two same vowels makes one long vowel.

The retroflex consonants in brackets occurr solely by combination with retroflex fricatives, they aren't in alphabet as self.

Ç [tʃ]

C [ts]

Ë [ə]

Ö [ø]

Ü [y]

ţ [c]

ḑ [ɟ]

Š [ʂ]

Ż [ʐ]

Ṡ [ʃ]
Ž [ʒ]

Y [j]

X [sj]

Kh [x]

Ñ [ɲ]

R [r] - on the beggining of the word or between vowels, [◌ʰ] (aspirated) - after a consonant, [ə̆] (extra-short) - after a vowel and before consonant

Gh [ɣ]

Th [θ]

Dh [ð]

W [v] - beware, it's same as v

V [v]

Ļ [ʎ]

Vocabulary

Example text
Malaba dur toupa na feyyas, na detessē dur an naohvil harwot, ţit nuhza Enken yallakyi lak khirī.

The Earth was void and empty, and there was darkness upon the abyss, but the Spirit of God hovered above the waters.