Hetomic

Hetomic
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Tsimulh Hetomic

Hetomic heh-TOM-ik is a Tsimulh language, serving as the lingua franca of səHetom in Txapoalli. It is intended to be a "liquidless French" or "nontonal Polish Navajo".

Phonology

Restrictions on final consonants

Orthography

pʰ b tʰ d tsʰ dz = ⟨p b t d ts dz⟩

tɕʰ dʑ tʂʰ dʐ kʰ g = ⟨tx dj tsh dzh k g⟩

w s z ɕ ʑ ʂ ʐ x ɣ h = ⟨w s z x j sh zh kh gh h⟩

m n ɳ ŋ w j = ⟨m n nh ng w y⟩

i ɛ æ y œ ə u ɔ ɑ = ⟨i e ä ü ö õ u o a⟩

Consonants

Consonant phonemes in Hetomic

		Labial	Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɳ	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	tenuis	p	t			k
	voiced	b	d			g
Fricative	voiceless		s	ʂ	ɕ	x	h
	voiced		z	ʐ	ʑ	ɣ
Affricate	tenuis		ts	tʂ	tɕ
	voiced		dz	dʐ	dʑ
Approximant					j	w

Vowels

a e i o u

Morphology

Verb aspects

• Aspects: perfective, progressive, inchoative, gnomic, momentane, frequentative
• Voices: passive, causative, reflexive

Syntax

• Almost completely head-final
• No wh-movement
• Verbs used as case markers