Kolsson language

The Kolsson language (Kolsson language: Lillei y Kolssonafell, lit. 'Speech of Kolssonafell') is a language spoken throughout Central Serrona. It is in the same language family as other languages like Mari and Lo'Oi - baring closest linguistic relation to the former. It is historically been spoken by the Kolsson people.
It is widely considered critically endangered and is today restrained to a few urban settlements, mostly being spoken by the small populations of people who have solely Kolsson heritage and by various descendants with partial Kolsson ancestory.
==Phonology==
===Consonants===
Consonant Phonemes
 	Labial	Alveolar	Dental	Palato-Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop 	p  b 	t  d 	 	 	 	k g 	ʔ
Affricative	 	(ts) 	 	(tʃ)  (dʒ) 	 	 	
Fricative 	f  v 	s  z 	ð 	ʃ  (ʒ) 	ɕ 	 	h
Nasal 	m 	n 	 	 	 	ɲ 	
Rhotic 	 	r 	 	 	 	 	
Approximant	 	l  ɹ 	 	 	j 	w 	
===Vowels===
Vowel Phonemes
 	Front unrounded	Front rounded	Central	Back
Close 	i, ɪ 	 	 	u
Close Mid	e 	 	 	o
Mid 	 	 	ə 	
Open Mid 	 	 	 	
Open 	 	 	ä 	
|+Vowel Inventory
Phoneme	Letter in Latin Script	Example 	Description 	
/i/ 	i 	duri, kellijei 	As in bee, key, lead, steed 	
/u/ 	u 	ulo, jumarr 	As in cool, boo, stew, loo 	
/e/ 	e 	lledlo, otolos 	As in okay, ballet, shame, stay	
/ɪ/ 	y 	jabyk, yndrri 	As in bit, sit, kill 	
/o/ 	o 	kollsso, orryll	As in broke, stove, cove 	
/ä/ 	a 	ra, zalem 	As in bra, law, saw 	
==Orthography and script==
The Kolsson language is written in Traveler's script, similarly to other Lausán languages like Mari and Lo'Oi. Prior to the Rathnirian discovery of Eldham when the script was first introduced to Eldhamites, the language was not written or at least not in any known scripts.
===Consonant orthography===
Several phonemes/sounds are spelt in a way different than one may expect from English/Traveler's Tongue. While sounds like /m/ or /n/ or written with 'm' and 'n' respectively, others are spelt differently in Kolsson.
L/l - A singular 'L/l' is almost always pronounced as a /w/ sound, as in the English 'whale' or 'what'. Words in Kolsson that feature this letter may include 'land', meaning 'feather', and 'jolarr' meaning 'death'. The only time a singular 'L/l' wouldn't represent this sound is when the 'L/l' is silent, this generally happens when it is followed by a harsh sound such as 'Ss/ss'.
Ll/ll - A double 'Ll/ll' is almost always pronounced as the standard 'l' sound, as in the English 'lore' or 'land'. Words in Kolsson that feature this sound may include 'pell', meaning 'grass', and 'vullyrk', meaning 'fox'.
Ss/ss - While a singular 's' is pronounced as it would be in English/Traveler's Tongue, a double 'Ss/ss' is pronounced as the consonant sound /ts/, in Kolsson words that use this sound may include 'masse', meaning 'farm', and 'gysso', meaning 'man'.
Rr/rr - While a singular 'r' is pronounced as it would in most English dialects, with the consonant /ɹ/, when a double 'Rr/rr' is used it represents the consonant sound /r/, making a trilled/rolled sound similar to those found in languages like real world Spanish. Other languages in the same language family borrowed this trend such as Mari, while in other it has been lost such as Contemporary Lo'Oi (it used to exist in Old Lo'Oi). The double 'Rr/rr' can be seen in Kolsson words like 'jumarr', meaning 'people, and 'ojarr', meaning 'city'.
Th/th - When 'Th/th' is used it always represents a voiced dental fricative, /ð/.
J/j - When 'J/j' is used it always represents the consonant /j/, the voiced palatal approximate.
Category:Languages
Category:Serrona
Category:Kolssonafell
Category:Traveler's Era