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Suhalan (Suxaranu [suxarɛ] or Limba Suxare [limba suxarɛ] is a Solarian language spoken in southern Euclea and northern Coius. It is the official language of Suhala and is its primarily spoken language, as well as Suhalans in northern Tsabara. Many speakers of Suhalan are bilingual, typically with Etrurian, Rahelian, or Atudean. Diglossia is especially common in Suhala itself. Including the population of Suhalan-speakers outside of Suhala, Suhalan is spoken by approximately 10.2 Million people. The language has significant influence from Gaullican, Vespasian, and Rahelian, having many loanwords from these languages.

History

Suhalan is a Solarian language, descending from Solarian. Solarian was adopted relatively late into the Solarian period, and modern Suhalan possesses significant substrate influence from !Punic, with Suxaro-Suhalan having influence from !Nuragic. All varieties of Suhalan have adstratum influence from Gaullican, Rahelian, and Pardari with Tsabaro-Suhalan having more Gaullican influence in addition to influence. Suxaro-Suhalan holds significant Vespasian influence, especially on the western side of the island.

Phonology

Suhalan has 20 consonant and 5 vowel phonemes, with a phonological inventory relatively similar to that of other Solarian languages. Its most crosslinguistically rare phonemes are the dental affricate /θ/ and the labiovelar plosives.

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

		Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar/Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar
Nasal		m		n
Plosive	voiceless	p	t̪			k	k͡p
	voiced	b	d̪			g	ɡ͡b
Fricative		f	θ	s	ʃ	x
Affricate	voiceless				t͡ʃ
	voiced				d͡ʒ
Sonorants				l / r	j		w

Notes:

• Geminate fricatives and fricatives before the liquids /l, r/ are allophonically voiced
• /n/ and /m/ allophonically assimilate into [ɱ, ŋ, ŋ͡m] before consonants with their places of articulation, i.e /nf/ and /ng/ are realized as [ɱf] and [ŋg]
• /n/ and /m/ allophonically assimilate into [ŋ] after /u/ and /ɔ/
• /ʃ/, /t͡ʃ /, and /d͡ʒ/ are typically realized as [ʃʲ] and [t͡ʃʲ]  [d͡ʒʲ]
• Central Suhalan dialects replace the phonemes /k͡p/ and /ɡ͡b/ with /ʍ/ and /w/ respectively
• Many younger speakers of Central Suhalan dialects, due to hypercorrection, often unconditionally replace all instances of [w] with [ɡ͡b], even in situations where [w] would be correct in Standard Suhalan
• In the Northwest Suhalan dialect, /d͡ʒ/ is realized as [ʎ], likely due to influence from Vespasian.

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

		Front	Central	Back
Close		i		u
Open-mid		ɛ		ɔ
Open			a

Notes:

Grammar

Suhalan is grammatically and typologically similar to other Solarian languages, and is a fusional language. Nouns and adjectives are inflected for case, gender, and number.