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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/ | tσ /tɬʰ/ | tj /tʃʰ/ | c /kʰ/ | ||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | dz /dz/ | dλ /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, ...