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Humpback Whelsh (mór-fîl) is a tonal language with a Welsh aesthetic. It is meant to be spoken in Humpback Wales.
Phonology
Consonants
Humpback Whelsh uses these consonants:
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ŋ̊ | |||||
| voiced | m | n | ŋ | ŋʷ | |||||
| Plosive | aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||||
| unaspirated | p | t | k | kʷ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | θ | s | ʃ | x | xʷ | h | |
| voiced | v | ð | |||||||
| Trill | voiceless | r̥ | |||||||
| voiced | r | ||||||||
| Approximant | voiceless | l̥~ɬ | |||||||
| voiced | l | j | w | ||||||
Tones
Humpback Whelsh has four contrastive tones: level, rising, falling and peaking.
| Tone | Example | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Level | llyr (blow) | /ɬɨ:r˧/ | |
| Rising | séng (place) | /se:ŋ˨˥/ | |
| Falling | chà (assist) | /xa:˨˩/ | May be slightly creaky voiced. |
| Peaking | rhêud (pebble) | /r̥eɨt̚˦˥˩/ | |