Tunisan Creole

Tunisan Creole is one of several conlangs created by Sraemoyes for her novels-in-progress. Another, Fylosan, has largely been added to Conlang Wikia.

Classification and Dialects
As all creoles, Tunisan Creole started as a pidgin.

Once upon a time, there was a tribe of Twanic people calling themselves the Umili. They had settled on the Umili River at western the edge of the Fylosan Mountain Range. They entered into a trade agreement and political alliance with a clan of river dragons who acted as pirates. They spoke to each other using a pidgin form of the Twanic language.

By the time that the Umili and the river dragons formed a country they called Tunisa, there were several native speakers. Although Twanic remained a ceremonial language, Tunisan Creole became the official academic and business language of the young country.

It had two dialects to start off with - a human dialect with sounds and expressions carried over from the Twanic language, and a dragon dialect with sounds and expressions carried over from the Fylosan language. However, the number of dialects grew rapidly as Tunisa started annexing its neighbors and forcing its language upon them.

Phonotactics
(C)V(C)

Consonants may not touch.

The only sounds that may end a syllable are vowels, /l/, and nasals.

/ɛ/ may only touch another vowel when it's preceding /i/.

Writing System
Twanic lacked a written system when the Umili first traded with the river dragons, but it was quick to borrow - and adapt - Fylosan. Tunisan Creole does use logographs in its highest registers, but it has an alpha-syllabary for every day use.