Elesu

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Elésu is a conlang created by con quesa for his conworld Arzhanø.

Contents 1 History 2 Phonology 2.1 Consonants 2.2 Vowels 2.3 Phonological Constraints 3 Nominal Morphology 3.1 Pronouns

History

The Eastern Barbarian peoples spoke a rapidly diverging dialect of Proto-Barbarian in the 6th and 5th centuries before the founding of Vadrian. By -450 they had settled in the northern Saimiar plain, near where the Gelengovø (Ele. Gæleçof) river traveled through the Great Pass. By now their langauge was termed Archaic Elésu

As their state grew in power and area, the langauge began to absorb elements from the other tongues they encountered. After the Elésu encountered the Xeseco:ni peoples, namely the Saimiar, in -50, the language is termed Middle Elésu. This stage of the language is characterized by an increased number of borrowings, particularly nautical terms from Jo:ru and Saimiar, and military terms from their Western Barbarian neighboors.

In 738 the Noxøtužø invaded the Saimiar plain, and the Elésu state was overrun. By the time the Saimiar repelled them in 1143, few Elésu, or any people from that part of the plain, were left alive. Saimiar occupied the northern part of the plain in the aftermath, as there was no state left to defy them after 300 years of fighting the Noxøtužø. What few speakers remained learned Saimiar, and Elésu became an extinct language.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Alveo-Palatal	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stops	b		t d		c	k g	q	'
Fricatives		v	s z	š ž		kh gh
Nasals	m		n		ç
Approxamants	w				y
Liquids			l r				rh
Lateral Fricatives			j

• c ' and q are voiceless /c ? q/. b is voiced /b/
• j is /K\/
• r is /r/

Vowels

i í ï u ú
e é o
æ a á å

• å,a,e,i,o,u= /A a E i o u/
• vowels with acute accents represent a long vowel: á= /a:/
• é and ú are exceptions; they are/e:/ and /U:/ respectively.
• ï represents /1/
• æ represents /{/

There are also four dipithrongs:

• ao /aO/
• ou /oU/
• ai /ai/
• ei /eI/

All dipithrongs are pronounced the same length as a short vowel.

Phonological Constraints

Basic syllable structure is CV(C). A word (but not necessarily a syllable) must have an initial consonant- if it does not have one an unmarked glottal stop ( ' ) is inserted in front of the vowel.

Allowable consonant clusters are as follows:

• stop,fricative or nasal+(w,y,l,r,rh)
• nasal+other nasal

Nominal Morphology

Pronouns

There are first, second, third, and forth person pronouns in the singular, dual, and plural numbers. The third and fourth persons have variant pronouns for describing animate and inanimate objects.

	Singular	Dual	Plural
First Person	mé	khu	vú'a
Second Person	ja	khu	ježa
Third Person-Inanimate	í'a	ícei	íbwa
Third Person-Animate	qæn	orhá	íbwa
Fourth Person-Inanimate	çu	çu	çu
Fourth Person-Animate	azi	fwen	fwen