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'''Pewu''' (pe-u í'y) is a language whistled in the peninsula of Pewuty in northern Land of Rain. The language originates to forest hunting calls and shamanic rites, but it has remained in use while the people has entered an agricultural, civilized era. | '''Pewu''' (pe-u í'y) is a language whistled in the peninsula of Pewuty in northern Land of Rain. The language originates to forest hunting calls and shamanic singing rites, but it has remained in use while the people has entered an agricultural, civilized era. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
Description of the whistling sounds with approximated articulation. | Description of the whistling sounds with approximated articulation. Pewu features overtone speaking aka simultaneously voicing with whistles and hisses. | ||
===Nucleus=== | ===Nucleus=== | ||
Core sounds are classified into whistles and hisses according to their phonation. The length of a whistle or a hiss is also phonemic. | |||
====Whistles==== | ====Whistles==== | ||
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*Egressive voiceless: y /ɸẙ/, u /ɸʉ̥/ | *Egressive voiceless: y /ɸẙ/, u /ɸʉ̥/ | ||
*Egressive voiced: vy (βy/, vu /βʉ/ | *Egressive voiced: vy (βy/, vu /βʉ/ | ||
**Vocal chords vibrate while whistling | **Vocal chords (or vestibulars) vibrate while whistling | ||
*Ingressive voiceless: -y /ɸẙ↓/, -u /ɸʉ̥↓/ | *Ingressive voiceless: -y /ɸẙ↓/, -u /ɸʉ̥↓/ | ||
**Carries an innate pitch higher than egressive, but still distinguishes between tonal variations. | **Carries an innate pitch higher than egressive, but still distinguishes between tonal variations. | ||
*Ingressive "voiced": -vy /ɸχy↓/, -vu /ɸχʉ↓/ | *Ingressive "voiced": -vy /ɸχy↓/, -vu /ɸχʉ↓/ | ||
====Hisses==== | ====Hisses==== | ||
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===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
*Egressive whistles and hisses can't immediately follow each other, and they have to be separated by an ingressive whistle | *Egressive whistles and hisses can't immediately follow each other, and they have to be separated by a plosive which often comes with an change into ingressive whistle. | ||
*Voiced whistles and hisses can't be preceded by a plosive | *Voiced whistles and hisses can't be preceded by a plosive | ||
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After consonants... | After consonants... | ||
==Morphophonology== | |||
*Egressive voiceless whistles are used mostly in nominals | |||
**Consonants are used in classifiers and for infixal derivation | |||
***"object-class of-wood-is table" = wooden table, "flat-class dirt-has table" = dirty surface, "massive-class spread table" = wide table-top mountain, ... | |||
*Egressive voiced whistles appear in pronouns and sensory adjectives | |||
*Ingressive voiceless whistles are used in adverbal affixes used for modifying both verbals and nominals and for derivation | |||
*Ingressive voiced whistles appear in separate adpositions and conjunctions | |||
*Voiceless hisses create stative verbal roots and adjectival words | |||
**Consonant addition gives rise to non-finite verb forms and numerals (headlike, eyelike, fingerlike, limblike and handlike numbers) | |||
*Voiced hisses appear in dynamic verbs and in participative interjections | |||