Krisnallen

General information
Krisnallen is the main language spoken by several fairy people who came from Valandyan. It was developped for the rock opera The sword of ice and fire by Italian band Aurea Sectio.

Phonology
Krisnallen has an almost phonetic alphabet. Althought fairy people use their own alphabet called Krispärivad (translate fairy's alphabet) we can use Latin one with some diacritical mark.

In romanization of Krispärivad we have thirtyfive letters.

Twentyone consonants. Thirteen vowels. One approximant consonant.

In the next tables we can find them. Out of the parenthesys we can find the transliteration in Latin alphabet of Krisnallen char, in the parenthesys its sound accordint IPA conventions.

Consonants
When two consonant are filled in the same cell the upper one is voiceless and the lower one is voiced

The symbol * indicate that this sound is an allophone of [n]

The symbol ** indicates that this sound can be rappresented only by a digraph.

Phonological diphtongs
There are four diphtongs with a different sound from the two vowels. They are the base of Krisnallen verbal system, in fact every verbal conjugation is charaterized by one of them. As we can see there are no way to know if a sound is made by a phonological diphtong or by a single vowel. We can know it only by context or experience.

Non phonological diphtongs
There are many non phonological diphotongs. Everyone has a sound deriving by combination of both vowels.

These diphtongs are:

AE [a'ε], AO [a'ɔ], AU [a'u], ĀE [ha'ε], ĀI [ha'i], ĀO [ha'ɔ]

EI [ε'i], EO [ε'ɔ], EU [ε'u], ĒA, [hε'a], ĒI, [hε'i], ĒO [hε'ɔ]

OA [ɔ'a], OI [ɔ'i], OU [ɔ'u], ŌA [hɔ'a], ŌE [hɔ'ε], ŌI [hɔ'i]

As we can see from IPA transcription, second vowel of a non phonological diphtong is always stressed.

Two vowels in a diphtong are not divided into two different syllabes.

Hiatus
Every other combination of two vowels (in example the combination with a long one) are hiatus. These ones are divided into two different syllabes.

Vowels in both kind of diphtongs are included in the same syllabe.