Nymeran

Nymeran (or Tlíl Nime) was created in 2015 by Niamh Ní Dhúill for Glow by Mythopoeia. In the spring of 2021, curatorship of Nymeran was assumed by Jamin Johnson, who began expanding the lexicon for issue #5 of the comic.

Nymeran is an a priori, fusional, ergative-absolutive language written with an abjad (with mandatory vowel marking) called (Sífantma Nime).

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	í · [i · ]	· u [ · u]
Mid-High	i · [ɪ · ]
Mid	é · [e · ]	· o [ · o]
Mid-Low	e · [ɛ · ]
Low	a · [æ~a · ]	· á [ɑ ~ ɒ]

Nymeran does not distinguish vowel length. There is one diphthong, ⟨ai⟩ [aɪ̯].

Consonants

(Pardon the compactified consonant table. I know it doesn't quite all line up “properly,” but it does make more sense in how these consonants pattern in the Nymeran language. I had all I could do not to call ⟨r⟩ a labial approximant! If in doubt, rely on the transcription and not the row or column.)

	Labial	Coronal	Palatal	Dorsal
Plosive	p · b [p · b]	t · [t]	ch · [ʧ]	k · g [k · ɡ]
Fricative	f · [f · v]	s · z [s · z]	sh · zh [ʃ · ʒ]	kh · [x]
Nasal	· m [m]	· n [n]
Approximant		· l [l]	· j [j]	· h [h]
Rhotic		· r [ɾ~r]

Clusters

While a number of consonant clusters are found word-internally, there are four clusters which may be found in initial position, and which, in fact, have their own unique characters in the Nymeran Alphabet to represent them:

	+l	+r
m+	ml [ml]	mr [mɾ]
t+	tl [tl̥]
h+	hl [hl̥~l̥]