Swyr

Humpback Whelsh/Lexicon

Humpback Whelsh/Swadesh list

Swyr
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Extinct	500dd
Language family	Naquic Naquian Swyr
Early form	Old Swyr
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qnq

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, ...