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Revision as of 17:50, 9 February 2019

Hetomic
Created byIlL
SettingVerse:Tricin
Tsimulh
  • Hetomic
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Hetomic heh-TOM-ik is a Tsimulh language, serving as the lingua franca of səHetom in Txapoalli. It is intended to be a "liquidless Polish".

Phonology

Restrictions on final consonants

TODO: de-Polishify the phonology

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
voiced dz
Approximant j w

Vowels

a e i o u

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Verb aspects

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

Syntax

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