Hurmumol

Hurmumol is the ancestral and liturgical language of the Hurmudans. In daily life, Hurmumol was replaced by Hurmu Norse in the 14th century. The name Hurmumol is actually Hurmu Norse in origin, from Hurmumaal, meaning "Hurmu language". In modern Hurmu Norse, however, the name of Hurmumol is spelt Hurmumol.

The word for the country of the Hurmudans, Hurmu, means sky in Hurmumol, and it is derived from the word Hurmu-dan-ka ("Sky people"), reflecting the mythological belief that Hurmudans came to Micras through meteors from the sky.

Orthography and pronunciation

Hurmumol takes its letters from the standard Machiavellian alphabet, without diacritics. It uses, however, hyphens (-) and apostrophes (') liberally.

Letter	IPA	Letter	IPA
p	pʰ	b	b
t	tʰ	d	d
k	kʰ, qʰ	g	g
s	s	–
ss	ʃ	j	ʒ
h	h, ʕ	–
x	x, χ
–		r	r, ɣ
		y	j
		n	n
		m	m
		l	l
		w	w

There is also a glottal stop ʔ, historically used after a vowel in a stressed position. Historically, ʕ (ayin) was also used for what later developed to /h/, and some conservative speakers still try pronounce h as /ʕ/. Thus Hurmu is generally pronounced /ˈhurmu/, old liturgical pronunciation is /ʕuɣˈmuʔ/. The influence of Hurmu Norse on the pronunciation has been evident....