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Humpback Whelsh/Lexicon
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Humpback Whelsh is a Naquic language spoken in Talma, descended from Naquian. It is distantly related to modern Adutsib languages such as Sfətsiv.

It's inspired by Welsh.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Lateral Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ng /ŋ/
Stop unaspirated pp /p/ tt /t/ tts /ts/ ttσ /tɬ/ ttj /tʃ/ cc /k/
aspirated p /pʰ/ t /tʰ/ ts /tsʰ/ /tɬʰ/ tj /tʃʰ/ c /kʰ/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ dz /dz/ /dɮ/ dj /dʒ/ g /g/
Fricative voiceless f /f/ th /θ/ s /s/ σ /ɬ/ sj /ʃ/ ch /x/ h /h/
voiced v /v/ dh /ð/ z /z/ λ /ɮ/ gh /ɣ/
Approximant r /r/ y /j/ w /w/

Mutations

Soft, nasal, geminate

  • tt > dh, tt, th
  • t > d, n, th

Vowels

in stressed syllables:

a ā e ē i ī o ō > æ a ə e ı i o u = ä a ə e ı i o u

Morphology

Nouns

The definite article is ı before consonants and ın before vowels.

Possessive pronouns: ro vib, w vib, a vib, go vib, zo vib, a mib = my house, your house, ...