Rulhilli

Note: the Devanagari is just a placeholder.

Rulhilli
रुल्हिळ्ळि
Pronunciation	[ɾuˈlʱiɭɭi]
Created by	Dillon Hartwig
Date	2021
Setting	Rangpur Division, Bangladesh
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Rulhilli
Early form	Old Rulhilli
Writing system	Devanagari

Rulhilli /rulˈhɪli/ (Rulhilli: रुल्हिळ्ळि [ɾuˈlʱiɭɭi]) is a Sinitic language spoken near Ulipur, Bangladesh.

Etymology

Rulhilli is from रुल्हिळ्ळि, from Old Rulhilli रुधिरदि, from Sanskrit रुधिरायानद्याः referring to the Brahmaputra river.

Phonology

Consonants

Old Rulhilli Consonants

	Labial		Alveolar		Retroflex		Palatal		Velar
Nasal	m		n		ɳ		ɲ		ŋ
Stop	p pʰ	b bʱ	t tʰ	d dʱ	ʈ ʈʰ	ɖ ɖʱ	t͡ɕ t͡ɕʰ	d͡ʑ d͡ʑʱ	k kʰ	g gʱ
Fricative			s		ʂ		ɕ		(h)	ɦ
Approximant	ʋ		l				j
Tap			ɾ

Modern Rulhilli Consonants

	Labial		Alveolar		Retroflex		Palatal		Velar
Nasal	m		n		ɳ		ɲ		ŋ
Stop	p pʰ	b bʱ	t tʰ	d dʱ	ʈ ʈʰ	ɖ ɖʱ	t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ	d͡ʒ d͡ʒʱ	k kʰ	g gʱ
Fricative			s		ʂ		ʃ			ɦ
Approximant	ʋ		l lʱ		ɭ ɭʱ		j
Tap			ɾ

• Old Rulhilli /s/ is realized as [h] word-finally.
• /ɳ/ only occurs in loanwords.
  • In Old Rulhilli /l/ only occurs in loanwords.

Vowels

Old Rulhilli Vowels Front Back High i iː ĩ ĩː u uː ũ ũː Mid e o Low ɐ ɐ̃ ɑː ɑ̃ː

Old Rulhilli Diphthongs ɐi aːi ɐu ɑːu

Old Rulhilli Syllabic Consonants r̩ r̩ː n̩ n̩ː

Modern Rulhilli Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i iː ĩ	u uː ũ
Close-mid	e	o
Open-mid	ɛ ɛː	ɔ ɔː
Low	ɐ ɐ̃	ɑː ɑ̃

• Modern nasal vowels may be short or long in free variation.

Prosody

Rulhilli stress falls on the last historically heavy (containing a long vowel or coda) syllable, or last syllable if there are no heavy syllables.

Phonotactics

Rulhilli maximal syllables are CCVC.

Syntax

Constituent order

Rulhilli word order is predominantly SOV but flexible.

Example texts

Linguifex-hosted translations

• Translated works in Rulhilli
• Rulhilli/Test Case Sentences
• Rulhilli/Corpus

Conlang Atlas of Language Structures-hosted translations

• CALS translations

Other resources

• CALS
• Rulhilli/Swadesh