Letilan

Letilan is one of the languages of Letila. It is characterized by very long words and a love of suffixes.

OOC: Letilan is of a language category known as polysynthetic. It is influenced heavily by the Bantu languages of Africa as well as by Inuktitut.

Alphabet

• p -- As in spot /p/
• t -- As in step /t/
• k -- As in scar /k/
• b -- As in bed /b/
• d -- As in dog /d/
• g -- As in game /g/
• b' -- Implosive b /b_</
• d' -- Implosive d /d_</
• g' -- Implosive g /g_</
• mb -- Prenasalized b /m_b/
• nd -- Prenasalized d /n_d/
• ng -- Prenasalized g /N_g/
• mb' -- Prenasalized b' /m_b_</
• nd' -- Prenasalized d' /n_d_</
• ng' -- Prenasalized g' /N_g_</
• m -- As in me /m/
• n -- As in nice /n/
• l -- As in leaf /l/
• w -- As in wonder /w/
• y -- As in yellow /j/

• a -- As in father /a/
• i -- As in Misato /i/
• u -- As in flute /u/
• e -- As in café /e/
• o -- As in Misato /o/
• è -- As in bed /E/
• ò -- As in dog /O/

These descriptions not exact to be honest. If you want exact values for the sounds, the letters inclosed in the slashes are X-SAMPA and correspond more correctly than the "as in X" descriptions.

On implosives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implosive

Prenasalized consonants just have a short nasal sound (m or n) that merges into them.

Grammar

Vocabulary