Alfondsen

Alfondsen [ahl-fawnd-SEN] is the language spoken by the Alfondsyu in all their domains, mostly Enis-Sáie and Karton Yi, each island having their own dialect. It is in the Caracrian language family, descended from Kartesíe through Proto-Alfondsen and then Old Alfondsen. It gave birth to Cueselí and lent a large chunk of vocabulary to Ciledyonaen. It had a sister language, Malgrave, but this died out before the Alfondsyu settled on Enis-Sáie.

This page will give a brief overview of typography, grammar, and structure of the language.

Typography and Pronounciation
Alfondsen is written right-to-left and top-to-bottom, like all Caracrian languages. It runs on two different scripts; One is mainly used on the islands, within their language and culture; and the other, due to its wider range of application and sounds representation, is used for foreign words or to communicate with races who use similar scripts.

The first script is called Valikáie (the name and style of which both descend from Valïkaei, the script of Kartesíe) and has nineteen consonants (b, r, k, n, f, ch, t, d, y, m, p, h, n, l, s, g, sh, h, th) and six vowels (o, i, a, e, u, ə ), with six specialty vowels (á, à, ò, ó, è, í) as well as a few punctuation marks. The consonants are in all cases pronounced as in English except the /r/, which is flicked (and in rare cases rolled). Both /n/ characters sound the same; one is used before vowels and the other before other consonants.

There are no digraphs; each consonant always makes one sound. There are some phonological mutations due to vowels, though, which are common:
 * /h/, which usually is pronounced as in English, becomes a voiceless palatal fricative before slender vowels (e, i, è, í)
 * /k/ before a vowel-group made mostly of broad vowels (aa, uo, àu, òae, etc.) become /ky/
 * /r/ before slender vowels becomes a strong /rh/