Classical Sanle
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Classical Sanle was an early form of the Sanle language, spoken during the Sanle's first great expansion. It was descended from Proto-Sanle.
Phonology
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |||||||||
| Stops | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | th | dh | s | z | sh | zh | kh | gh | ||||||
| Lateral Affricates | tlh | |||||||||||||||
| Approximants | r | y | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | ||||||||
| Mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Low | a | |||||||||
Vowels may be long, in which case they're marked with an acute, as á í ú é ó. Stress is normally on the first syllable of a word. In cases of irregular stress, the grave (or circumflex for long vowels) is used to indicate the stress.
Syllables
Classical Sanle tended towards monosyllabic words, with a few disyllabic, and even fewer trisyllabic, words, permitting a modest range of consonant clusters, but no vowel sequences.
Syllables could begin with:
- A vowel
- Any consonant
- A stop followed by any consonant (including another stop)
- A nasal followed by anything except another nasal
- A fricative followed by any other consonant (same voicing for stops and fricatives)
- L followed by r or y
Syllables could end with:
- A vowel
- Any consonant
- A nasal followed by a homorganic stop or a fricative
- A fricative followed by a stop (same voicing)
- An l or r followed by a stop, fricative, or nasal
- rl
In intervocalic consonant-clusters, the first consonant is always syllabified with the preceding vowel (e.g., ákhmosht, "visit" is syllabified ákh-mosht rather than á-khmosht)
Grammar
Sanle was an isolating language. Normal word order was subject-object-verb, modifiers preceding their head, with postpositions. Serial verbs and classifiers were also frequently used.
