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Omůj words are weakly stressed on the final syllable. There is vowel height harmony in unstressed syllables, with ''e o ə'' alternating with ''i u ɯ''.
Omůj words are weakly stressed on the final syllable. There is vowel height harmony in unstressed syllables, with ''e o ə'' alternating with ''i u ɯ''.
===Initial clusters===
Typical Germanic ones, plus a few extra Slavic ones (zR, zdr, nr, mr ...)


==Orthography==
==Orthography==

Revision as of 15:24, 25 August 2018

Omůj /omuəj/ is a Polish, Czech and Hmong inspired isolate spoken in Bjeheond. Grammar-wise it's similar to Modern Windermere and Hlou.

Prohlad = a name?

Phonology

/a e i o u ə ɨ ai au aɨ iə uə ei ou/ a é í o u e i aí au ai ě ů ee oo + syllabic r, l and n

/pʰ p~b m f tʰ t~d n θ ts dz~z s tɕ dʑ~ʑ ɕ/ p b m f t d n þ c z s ć ź ś

/kʰ k~g ŋ x h l l̥ r r̥ w w̥ j ç/ k g ŋ ħ h l hl r hr v hv j hj

Omůj words are weakly stressed on the final syllable. There is vowel height harmony in unstressed syllables, with e o ə alternating with i u ɯ.

Initial clusters

Typical Germanic ones, plus a few extra Slavic ones (zR, zdr, nr, mr ...)

Orthography

Omůj uses the Greek alphabet, developed in-universe by the linguist Schlomo Schngellstein.

Grammar

The nominative case particle in VSO clauses is e (which is coincidentally the same in Modern Windermere).