Felönrätli

General information
Felönrätli is the official language of Felönrä Empire. Being mothertongue to the Felönra nation, it has been developing for more than 2 thousand years already. Although felönra make only 20% of the Empire's population, their language is widely used as lingua-franca within it's borders and beyond.

Alphabet
In this Wiki Felönrätli uses Latin alphabet with some digraphs and letters with diacritics added.

Digraphs:

"si" for [ʃ]

"zi" for [ʒ]

"ch" for [χ]

"wr" for [ɹ]

"ng" for [ŋ]

"th" for [θ]

"dh" for [ð]

Diacritics:

ä for [æ]

ö for [ø]

ü for [y]

õ for [ɨ]

Orthography
1. Long sounds are represented by double letters. To represent a long digraph sound, only the last letter of digraph becomes double.

2. [i] is represented by 'y' after 'z' and 's'.

3. Letter 'i' represents the sound [j] before vowels and in the and of a syllable.

4. Letter 's' represents the sound [s] after the consonants and [ɬ] in other positions.

The following combinations are pronounced differently due to the difficulty of the original pronunciation. They may occur between morphemes.

stch - si

sb - sm

tht - thh

sth - ch

nm - nn

'h' is not pronounced after fricatives.

If a consonant occures between two nasals then it is omitted in pronunciation, e.g.

nkn - nn

If

Definite article 'tka' is pronounced as 'ka' unless preceded by a vowel.

Phonotactics
Possible syllables:

V, CV, CVA, VC, CVC CCVC, CCV, CCVCC, CAV*


 * Where A is an approximant.

Article.
1. In most cases noun is preceded by an article, which changes according to the gender, case, number and definiteness of a noun. Here are the declensions of both types of articles. Cases

Noun.
Nouns may be divided in two groups according to their gender. Gender affects declension and some verb and adjective forms. Also there are two types of declension for each gender, with the last sound being vowel or consonant. Here is the paradigm for masculine nouns, knife*

horse**

Syntax.
Felönrätli uses SVO word order, for example:

Edh echel iü pengällenä.(lit.I am-1p.singular a(masc.singular.) fish(comitative)) - I've got a fish.

When used as subjects, personal pronouns may be omitted, e.g.

Ikvarnisat föderrecht.(lit. 'go-must-not-1p.singular.indicative' any-where-allative) - I don't have to go anywhere.

''Ikat derrecht valat. (lit.'' 'go-1p.singular.indicative' where-allative want-1p.singular.indicative) I'm going where I want to.

Modifier always follows the world it modifies, e.g.