Gushli language
Gushli | |
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Fon-e Koşlen . Fon-e Koşlen . | |
Pronunciation | /fone koʃlen/ |
Region | Vaniua |
Ethnicity | Gushlis |
Native speakers | TBD (2016) |
Language family | |
Writing system | Vaniuan script |
Official status | |
Official language in | Gushlia |
CWS code | FKS |
File:Gushli language map.png |
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Gushli (. Fon-e Koşlen .; Fon-e Koşlen, /fone koʃlen/) is a Kashisan language within the Eastern Vaniuan branch of the Vaniuan language family. Along with the Balak language, Gushli is a national variant of the pluricentric Jazaghan language. Gushli belongs to the Kashisan branch of the Vaniuan language family. Standard Gushli is written in the Gushli alphabet, a modified variant of the Vaniuan alphabet.
The Gushli language is considered a continuation of Middle Jazaghan, and has inherited its spelling conventions, creating a complicated system of historical spelling. Throughout its history the language has had moderate influence from the Khamaian language, the ancestor of which also served as a substrate for Proto-Kashisan, as well as more significant influence from the Koman language.
There are roughly X million Gushli speakers worldwide, holding official status in Gushlia, and regional or minority status in Komania and Balakia.
Geographic Distribution
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Dialects
History
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |
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Nasal | m | n | ||
Plosive | p b | t d | k ɡ | |
Fricative | f v | ɕ ʑ | ʃ ʒ | x ɣ |
Affricate | t͡ɕ | t͡ʃ | ||
Approximant | l | j | ||
Rhotic | r |
Notes:
- X.
Vowels
Gushli has a system of 6 phonemic vowels, with no distinction in length.
Front | Back | |
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Close | i | u |
Mid | e | o |
Open | a | ɒ |
Notes:
- The front vowels /e i/ are realised as rounded [ø y] when following labial consonants.
- X.
Phonotactics
Orthography
Grammar
Morphology
Gushli is a moderately agglutinative language, though it does preserve fusional affixes for nouns and verbs. Nouns are divided into two animacy classes - animate and inanimate - and are inflected slightly differently depending on the class they are on; inanimate nouns don't inflect for plural number, while animate nouns do.