Terran

Natively known as: rharlyn /ʁɑˈɹlɪn/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
lobhuyth e gawo hu a syrmor lobhuyth utga a homnom bharmyr sunmaog shynmarhum
Pronunciation: /lobˈhʌiθ ɛ gɑˈwo hʌ ɑ siɹˈmoɹ lobˈhʌiθ ʌtˈgɑ ɑ homˈnom bhɑɹˈmiɹ sʌnˈmɑog ʃɪnˈmɑʁʌm/
Rharlin word order: and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face the wind to

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d f g h l m n p r s t v w

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n
Stop	p b		t d	g
Fricative		f v	s		h
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: a e i o u y

	Front	Back
High	i y	u
High-mid	e	o
Low	a

Syllable structure: Custom defined ?
Stress pattern: Second — stress is on the second syllable ?

Sound changes (in order of application):

• a → ɑ
• bb → b
• b → b
• ch → ʧ
• c → k
• d → d
• e → ɛ
• ff → f
• f → f
• gg → g
• g → g
• h → h
• i → ɪ
• j → ʤ
• kk → k
• k → k
• ll → l
• l → l
• m → m
• ng → ŋ
• nn → n
• n → n
• o → o
• p → p
• q → k
• rr → ʀ
• rh → ʁ
• r → ɹ
• sh → ʃ
• ss → s
• s → s
• th → θ
• t → t
• u → ʌ
• v → v
• w → w
• x → ks
• y → i
• z → z

Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
ɑ	a
b	b
ʧ	ch
d	d
ɛ	e
f	f
g	g
h	h
i	y
ɪ	i
ʤ	j
k	k
l	l
m	m
ŋ	ng
n	n
o	o
p	p
ɹ	r
ʃ	sh
s	s
θ	th
t	t
ʌ	u
v	v
w	w
x	ks
z	z

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Grammar

Main word order: Subject Verb Object (Prepositional phrase). “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into Mary opened the door with a key.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned before the noun.
Adposition: postpositions ?

Nouns

Singular	No affix shovham /ʃovˈhɑm/ dog
Plural	Prefix si- syshovham /sɪˈʃovhɑm/ dogs

Articles

	Definite	Indefinite
Singular	yg /ɪg/ the	uded /ʌˈdɛd/ a
Plural	pusmeta /pʌsˈmɛtɑ/ the	wu /wʌ/ some

Uses of definite article that differ from English:

• Used to talk about countable nouns in general: English’s ‘I like cats’ would translate to ‘I like the cats’

Pronouns

1st singular	y /ɪ/ I, me, mine
2nd singular	ny /nɪ/ you, yours
3rd singular	e /ɛ/ he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its
1st plural	y /i/ we, us, ours
2nd plural	u /ʌ/ you all, yours (pl)
3rd plural	dyr /diɹ/ they, them, theirs

Possessive determiners

	Possessive
1st singular	ben /bɛn/ my
2nd singular	y /i/ your
3rd singular	a /ɑ/ his, her, its
1st plural	be /bɛ/ our
2nd plural	mo /mo/ your (pl)
3rd plural	pyr /piɹ/ their

Verbs

Present	No affix borsham /boɹˈʃɑm/ learn
Past	If ends with vowel: Suffix -l Else: Suffix -o borshamo /boɹˈʃɑmo/ learned
Remote past	If ends with vowel: Suffix -gh Else: Suffix -o borshamo /boɹˈʃɑmo/ learned (long ago)

Rharlin uses a standalone particle word for future tense:

Future

Particle before the verb: rhyto - rhyto borsham /ʁiˈto boɹˈʃɑm/ will learn

Progressive aspect

The ‘progressive’ aspect refers to actions that are happening at the time of speaking, such as I am learning.
Rharlin uses a standalone particle word for progressive:

Progressive

Particle before the verb: nos - nos borsham /nos boɹˈʃɑm/ is learning

Habitual aspect

The ‘habitual’ aspect refers to actions that happen habitually, such as I learn (something new every day), as opposed to actions that happen once (I learned something).
Rharlin uses an affix for habitual:

Habitual

If ends with vowel: Suffix -g Else: Suffix -u borshamu /boɹˈʃɑmʌ/ learns

Numbers

Rharlin has a base-10 number system:

1 - lyswur
2 - pythror
3 - ra
4 - byrar
5 - ghymo
6 - thum
7 - rhoraym
8 - wy
9 - yth
10 - ohmythy
100 - aseg
1000 - puyt

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = Suffix -em
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Suffix -uth
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -w
Else: Suffix -o
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -b
Else: Suffix -a
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Prefix wo-
Noun to verb = Suffix -ym
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Prefix ry-
Tending to = Prefix du-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Suffix -ot
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Suffix -ew
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -rh
Else: Suffix -e
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -s
Else: Suffix -o
Diminutive = Suffix -egh
Augmentative = Suffix -il

Dictionary

3093 Words.