Nomækeléet

This language is spoken by the Nomægelé Empire - and many other vassal states - at Geléshtevadaran ("planet Gelesh", even though the name ressembles to that of Gelo, it has a complete different ethymologic origin and meaning), which still remains in a technological level somewhat similar to Earth's superpowers. Due to its widespread use throughout the planet, it has several dialects that have from minor differences a the stress on syllabes to major changes in consonants and vowels pronounciations and grammatical simplifications.

It is a language that seems to have no known ancestry in Earth languages' family tree, as is the case with Yisrelit, Ekroneké and some other minor languages. Its writting system derives from a previous hyerogliphic-like script and, even though the language is almost a syllabary-style, it is actually an abjad, with ideogram-looking letters marking consonantal sounds with vowels attached beneath them. A simplier, alphabet-like script has arrised in recent decades among the not-so-educated people, but this has been called as "a gross simplification of the language and a idioticization of the children".

Consonants
The spoken language has 26 consonantal phonemes, but only 23 letters and one of them is a simple mute letter just to sign where a vowel should be spoken, thus leaving 22 letters to represent all the phonemes.

In many dialects some phonemes merged and the interchangeable phonemes disappeared, being used the easiest one to pronounce, as "q" merged into "k", "ɱ" into "m", "ɲ" into "n" and "đ" into "d". It is not the same to all dialects, as some merged all of them and others had only one or two merges. In some dialects, "r" and "ɹ", "f" and "ϕ", "v" and "β" are also used as interchangeable, but written with different standard symbols. At least in one place, "ϕ", "β" and "v" merged into "f" completely.

These are the interchangeable phonemes for the standard:

• Phoneme "k" is pronounced always in a stressed syllabe, as well as in unstressed syllabes with "a", "æ" and "e". In unstressed syllabes with "o" and "u", it sounds like "q" (make with the back of the throat).

• Phoneme "ɱ" is used only at the beginning of the words, except with "æ". All other cases, "m" is used.

• Phoneme "ɲ" is used only at the beginning of the words, except with "æ". All other cases, "n" is used.

• Phoneme "đ" is used in stressed syllabes, but never at the end of a word. For all other cases, "d" is used.

Vowels
It has also five vowels (the "i" vowel doesn't exist in any dialect), with two aditional diacritic symbols marking a) a repetition of the previous vowel (which is always a stressed syllabe) and b) a mute consonant.

Letter-phoneme correspondents


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