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INTRODUCTION
Nomækeléet (ɲo.mæ.ke.'le.et) is spoken mainly by the Nomækelé Federation - and many other vassal states - at Keléshtevadáran ("planet Kelé", nearest to the planet Gelo, and is known to the Geloans as "Mezuhar", "the brilliant one"), and still remains in a technological level somewhat similar to current Earth's superpowers. Due to its widespread use throughout the planet, it has several dialects that range from minor differences in the stress of syllabes to major changes in consonantal and vocalic pronounciations and grammatical simplifications.
It is a language that seems to have no known ancestry in Earth languages' family tree, making it differ from Yisrelit, Ekroneké and some other minor languages. Its writting system derives from a previous ideogramic script and, even though the language is almost an abugida, it is actually an abjad with obligatory vocalic diacritics. A simplier alphabet script arose in the last century among the "not-so-educated" people, but this has been called as "a gross simplification of the language and a idioticization of the children".
The word "nomækelé" (ɲomækele') is a junction of two words: "nómæ" (thriving) and "kelé" ("land"). And "Keléshtevadáran" (planet Kelé) is a junction of "kelé" with "tevadáran" (planet; "tevadár" means "star" and "-an" suffix means "be like"), and the "sh" is the particle of naming, used when uniting names to nouns (as in Keleshtevadáran and Waráshtevadár, meaning "planet of Kelé" and "star of Wará").
WRITING SYSTEM (see below for more)
There are 23 letters in Nomaekeléet abjad/alphabet, being one of them to mark when a vowel must be pronounced without the sound of a consonant. There are two different scripts for Nomaekeléet: the High Nomaekeléet script is an abjad with mandatory diacritics (almost an abugida), and the Low Nomaekeléet is a full-fledged alphabet.
The HN script shows five signs that repeat inside several letters: a star, an arm, a wave, a bucket and a thunder. These are not diacritical marks, but part of these letters. Since this abjad is still "young" and derived from a hieroglyphic-style script, it still maintains many of the complexities seen in its predecessor, and these signs were used to represent ideas and concepts, and sometimes to change the meaning of the symbol. A future article will explain these features with more details.
Consonants: The spoken language has 26 consonantal phonemes, but only 23 letters and one of them is a simple mute letter just to sign where a unattached vowel should be spoken, thus leaving 22 letters to represent all the phonemes. In many dialects some phonemes merged and the interchangeable phonemes disappeared by picking the easiest one to pronounce, as "q" merged into "k", "ɱ" into "m", "ɲ" into "n" and "ð" into "d". It is not the same to all dialects, as some merged all of them and others had only one or two merges. At least in one widespread dialect spoken at a Waráshpán (one sattelite nation to Nomækelé Federation), "ϕ", "β" and "v" merged into "f" completely, as did "ɹ" into "r", "ʒ" into "ʃ" and "z" into "s", alongside all previous merges mentioned above, drastically reducing the dialect's phonetical inventory to 16 consonantal phonemes but maintaining the same letters.
These are the interchangeable phonemes for the standard:
• Phoneme "k" (in most dialects it is pronounced as "g", but not at the capital) is pronounced always in a stressed syllabe, as well as in unstressed syllabes with "a", "æ" and "e". In unstressed syllabes with "o" and "u", it sounds like "q" (make with the back of the throat).
• Phoneme "ɱ" is used only at the beginning of the words, except with "æ". All other cases, "m" is used.
• Phoneme "ɲ" is used only at the beginning of the words, except with "æ". All other cases, "n" is used.
• Phoneme "ð" is used in stressed syllabes, but never at the end of a word. For all other cases, "d" is used.
Vowels: It has also five vowels (the "i" vowel doesn't exist in any of its dialect), with two aditional diacritic symbols marking: a) a repetition of the previous vowel (and then will always become the stressed syllabe), and b) a mute consonant.
GRAMMAR
Nouns: There are three genders in Nomaekeléet, masculine, feminine and neutral. However, they are not marked on the noun, rather being noted in the indefinite and definite article that precedes the noun. Definite articles are "na" (masc. sing), "se" and "axa" (neutr. sing) - their plural forms have an additional "-n" to the end of it. Indefinite articles are "an" (masc. sing), "en" and "xa" (neutr. sing) - they have no plural form.
Adjectives: They always come before the noun and attached to it. Since they always come attached to the noun, the article defines its gender.
MORE ON NOMAEKELÉET
Here is a list of pages on Nomaekeléet writting system, grammar, media, and more.
Page 1 - Nomaekeléet Alphabet: A more detailed page on Nomaekeléet script.
Page 2 - Nomaekeléet News: All the news concerning Nomaekeléet, download files, and more.
Page 3 - All Posts: All posts written about Nomaekeléet. All of them in this tag.
Page 4 - Texts and short tales in Nomaekeléet: A list of texts and short tales written in Nomaekeléet.
There are 23 letters in Nomaekeléet abjad/alphabet, being one of them to mark when a vowel must be pronounced without the sound of a consonant. There are two different scripts for Nomaekeléet: the High Nomaekeléet script is an abjad with mandatory diacritics (almost an abugida), and the Low Nomaekeléet is a full-fledged alphabet.
The HN script shows five signs that repeat inside several letters: a star, an arm, a wave, a bucket and a thunder. These are not diacritical marks, but part of these letters. Since this abjad is still "young" and derived from a hieroglyphic-style script, it still maintains many of the complexities seen in its predecessor, and these signs were used to represent ideas and concepts, and sometimes to change the meaning of the symbol. A future article will explain these features with more details.
Consonants: The spoken language has 26 consonantal phonemes, but only 23 letters and one of them is a simple mute letter just to sign where a unattached vowel should be spoken, thus leaving 22 letters to represent all the phonemes. In many dialects some phonemes merged and the interchangeable phonemes disappeared by picking the easiest one to pronounce, as "q" merged into "k", "ɱ" into "m", "ɲ" into "n" and "ð" into "d". It is not the same to all dialects, as some merged all of them and others had only one or two merges. At least in one widespread dialect spoken at a Waráshpán (one sattelite nation to Nomækelé Federation), "ϕ", "β" and "v" merged into "f" completely, as did "ɹ" into "r", "ʒ" into "ʃ" and "z" into "s", alongside all previous merges mentioned above, drastically reducing the dialect's phonetical inventory to 16 consonantal phonemes but maintaining the same letters.
These are the interchangeable phonemes for the standard:
• Phoneme "k" (in most dialects it is pronounced as "g", but not at the capital) is pronounced always in a stressed syllabe, as well as in unstressed syllabes with "a", "æ" and "e". In unstressed syllabes with "o" and "u", it sounds like "q" (make with the back of the throat).
• Phoneme "ɱ" is used only at the beginning of the words, except with "æ". All other cases, "m" is used.
• Phoneme "ɲ" is used only at the beginning of the words, except with "æ". All other cases, "n" is used.
• Phoneme "ð" is used in stressed syllabes, but never at the end of a word. For all other cases, "d" is used.
Vowels: It has also five vowels (the "i" vowel doesn't exist in any of its dialect), with two aditional diacritic symbols marking: a) a repetition of the previous vowel (and then will always become the stressed syllabe), and b) a mute consonant.
GRAMMAR
Nouns: There are three genders in Nomaekeléet, masculine, feminine and neutral. However, they are not marked on the noun, rather being noted in the indefinite and definite article that precedes the noun. Definite articles are "na" (masc. sing), "se" and "axa" (neutr. sing) - their plural forms have an additional "-n" to the end of it. Indefinite articles are "an" (masc. sing), "en" and "xa" (neutr. sing) - they have no plural form.
Adjectives: They always come before the noun and attached to it. Since they always come attached to the noun, the article defines its gender.
MORE ON NOMAEKELÉET
Here is a list of pages on Nomaekeléet writting system, grammar, media, and more.
Page 1 - Nomaekeléet Alphabet: A more detailed page on Nomaekeléet script.
Page 2 - Nomaekeléet News: All the news concerning Nomaekeléet, download files, and more.
Page 3 - All Posts: All posts written about Nomaekeléet. All of them in this tag.
Page 4 - Texts and short tales in Nomaekeléet: A list of texts and short tales written in Nomaekeléet.
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