Mwyltydd

['muɪ̯l.ti:ð]

Millic (natively Mwyltydd) is a Garro-Milleo language spoken by the Mills (Mwyldàss ['muɪ̯l.daʊ̯s]) on the four mountain islands of Y Llatmwyl Hul on the planet Mycae (which for all intents and purposes is nearly identical to Earth, apart from the geography, cultures, and pretty much everything else so actually it's basically not at all similar.) Also, by some strange coincidence, the Mills use orthography, phonology, and grammar that varies almost insignificantly from that of modern Welsh. This has led some suprademensional beings to question the seemingly spontaneous and random nature of the universe, however, the affairs of lower beings aren't of any relevance enough to inquire. Millic is a mildly inflected analytic language, though it also has some uncommonly realized polysynthetic qualities. As is true in the Insular Celtic of Earth languages, Millic features a heavy usage of verbnouns and a system of initial consonant mutation, and has several other similarities to not only Welsh, but traits of the Goidelic languages as well. In addition, there are several loan words, loan translations, and other influences from the Snake Language spoken by the dolphin population indigenous to the waters around Y Llatmwyl Hul.

Classification
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 * Asrineo-Cymrean
 * West Asrinean
 * Low Garr ý lic
 * Garro-Milleo
 * New Garr ý lic (extinct)
 * Millic

After the unfortunate and unforeseeable destruction of Llatgar ýl (the former fifth island in the group whereupon New Garr ýlic was spoken ), and due to the Millic superstition that the open sea is evil (or at least whatever might lay in wait thereacross), the Mills found themselves alone in the world. Strict population control has been inforced for on the island-states for hundreds of years. So much so that the population actually decreased by 30% over the last century, but at now has been stabilized with a whopping growth factor of 0%. Freaky as it may seem, this was not the work of a nefarious governing body, but instead the choice of the people, content with their humble lives on their four wittle iswands. Similar to their control of the population is the Mills control over the uniformity and non-evolution of their language. They like it how it is and make sure it don't never changes, not one bit. As such, there are no branching dialects.

Phonology
Despite this language using Welsh-like orthography (in the Latin alphabet, no less), the phonology hereof is significantly divulgent from it's Earthen look-alike, oh yes indeed.

Consonants
Notes:
 * All plosives and affricates are slightly aspirated.
 * [x,  ɣ] are allophones of / ç, ʝ/ respectively after back vowels and /a, a:/
 * [ ɾ] is is an allophone of /r/ intervocalicaly.
 * [ ʁ] is sometimes unvoiced to [χ], depending on situational occurrence and on the speaker's preference. This may result in inflectional confusion if adequate context in absent.

Phonotactics
To be determined....

Orthography
The spelling of Mwyltydd is very similar to that of Welsh with some slight- but important- differences along with several 'additions' thereto. One should note that the digraph "Qj,qj" unpredictably represents either [ ʝ] or [ ʒ]; a borrowed usage from the snake-language of the Dolphins; a language which has, on Earth, never been able to be translated, despite millions of years of cohabitation. One might also notice somewhat a dearth in diacritical marks (other than the há ček), instead favoring digraphical literation; this decision was made in large part due to the universal, subconsious acceptance that I'm too lazy to use them often.

Consonants
-Millic sonorants excluding /ɬ/ and /ɮ/, (/r,l,n,m,ŋ,ʁ/), when followed by or following {h}, become voiceless allophones of the original phoneme. Graphemes {rh} and {hr}, while corresponding with /χ/, have an elusive rhoticity about them, making an exact phonetic transcription difficult (the most realistic being, though still quite ambiguous, /χ˞/ or even /χ͡ɹ̥/)

Vowels
Those who like diacritics shall be pleased to see them used upon Millic vowels exhaustively.

Diphthongs
-Syllables containing diphthongs draw lexical stress unless otherwise indicated orthographically.

-When two vowels occur digraphically or adjacent to one another, including across word barriers, they can optionally be pronounced in hiatus or as a diphthong, excluding the digraphs {wy,  ẃy, yw,  ýw}. However, if the second vowel in such an occurring set is stressed (as marked by an acute accent), the two vowels must be pronounced separately. Similarly, a long vowel indicated by orthography (ie, a vowel with a circumflex) preceding or following another vowel is always pronounced in hiatus (V:.V, V.V:).

-All diphthongs in Millic are falling diphthongs. Semi-vowels followed by another vowel are realized as separate phonemes. Graphemes {w} and {y} can represent semi-vowels /w/ and /j/ respectively before all vowels except eachother, while pre-vocalic {u} and {j} represent /w/ and /j/ respectively before {y} and {w}.