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In [[Verse:Hmøøh|Hmøøh]], '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' /ˈθiːən/ (Zzean: ''Zzea kī̄'' /θiə̯˧ ki˥/, Eevo: ''łynøñ Þea'') is an analytic monosyllabic tonal language spoken on the island country [[Verse:Hmøøh/Zzea|Zzea]] (Zzean: ''Zzea Lga{{cab}}y'' /θiə̯˧ ʟɑj˩˥/) off the southwestern coast of the continent Kjàt Må̀. {{PAGENAME}} has a complex tone system even for a Kjàt Må̀ language, with 5 level tones and 6 contour tones. It is head-final and SVO. Zzean belongs to a small family called the Zzeic languages but otherwise has no known relatives.
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' /ˈθiːən/ is a nontonal Akya-Woms language.
{{PAGENAME}} is inspired by East and Southeast Asian tonal languages, Ojitlán Chinantec, Toda, and Saanich.
 
==Phonology==
The following is the phonology of Standard Zzean.
=== Phonotactics ===
A morpheme is almost always monosyllabic. A syllable always has the structure IR<sup>T</sup>, where I = initial, R = rime, and T = tone. {{SUBPAGENAME}} has 33 initials, 9 rimes, and 11 tones, making 3267 possible syllables.
 
=== Rimes ===
 
i/e/ə/ɑ/ej/əj/ɑj/iə̯/ɨə̯~ɨ
 
'''i/e/ə/a/ey/əy/ay/ea/ua'''
 
=== Initials ===
m/n̪/n/ɳ/p/t̪/t̪s̪/t/ts̠/tʃ/ʈ/ʈʂ/k/ʔ/f/θ/s̪/θ̠/s̠/ʃ/ʂ/x/h/l̪/ð̞/l/r/ɭ/ɻ/ʟ/ɰ/j/w
 
'''m/nh/n/nr/p/th/tz/t/ts/tx/tr/tsr/k/0/f/zz/z/ss/s/x/sr/kh/h/lh/zh/l/r/lr/rr/lg/g/y/w'''
 
=== Tones ===
English names: "top, high, mid, low, bottom, bottom-rise, mid-rise, top-fall, mid-fall, dip, peak"
 
˥/˦/˧/˨/˩/˩˥/˧˥/˥˩/˧˩/˨˩˨~˩˨/˨˧˨~˧˦˧~˦˨
 
'''ā̄/ā/a/a̱/a&#817;&#817;/a̗/á/à/a̖/a̬/â'''
 
{|class="wikitable"
! Romanization
! IPA
! English name
! Example
|-
| ā̄
| /˥/
| top
| ''kā̄'' /ləu˧/ 'short'
|-
| '''-n'''
| low level / low checked (21~11)
| ''laun'' /ləu˨˩/ 'to smile'
|-
| '''-b'''
| high level / high falling (55~53)
| ''Laub'' /ləu˥˧/ 'leaf'
|-
| '''-d'''
| dipping / low falling (313~31)
| ''Laud'' /ləu˧˩˧/ 'shoe'
|-
| '''-g'''
| breathy mid level (33 + breathy)
| ''laug'' /lə&#804;u˧/ 'to knit'
|-
| '''-s'''
| rising (24)
| ''laus'' /ləu˨˦/ 'to receive'
|-
| '''-ß'''
| broken rising (3ˀ5)
| ''Lauß'' /ləu˧ˀ˥/ 'wrinkle'
|}
Tones have a high functional load in Þhea Kï. The following is a tonal minimal 11-tuplet:
* kā̄: short
* kā: coat
* ka: to take
* ka̱: to breathe
* ka̱̱: to burn (intrans.)
* ka̗: roof
* ká: fencepost
* kà: crow/raven; (ideophone) caw
* ka̖: finger
* ka̬: grease
* kâ: to imprint, to stamp
 
==== Tone box ====
{| class="wikitable"
!
!A (null or resonant coda) (2/6)
!B (glottal stop coda) (1/6)
!C (fricative coda) (1/6)
!D (voiceless stop coda) (1/6)
!E (voiced stop coda) (1/6)
|-
!Modal initial (3/8)
|33 (a)
|212 (a̬)
|22 (a̱)
|35 (á)
|11 (a̱̱)
|-
!Breathy initial (3/8)
|31 (a̖)
|15 (a̗)
|343 (â)
|15 (a̗)
|343 (â)
|-
!Creaky initial (2/8)
|51 (à)
|44 (ā)
|11 (a̱̱)
|55 (ā̄)
|51 (à)
|}
 
===Awkwords input===
C: m/nh/n/nr/p/th/tz/t/ts/tx/tr/tsr/k//f/zz/z/ss/s/x/sr/kh/h/lh/zh/l/r/lr/rr/lg/g/y/w
 
R: ā̄/ā/a/a&#817;/a&#817;&#817;/a&#791;/á/à/a&#790;/a̬/â/ā̄y/āy/ay/a&#817;y/a&#817;&#817;y/a&#791;y/áy/ày/a&#790;y/a̬y/ây/ē̄/ē/e/e̱/e&#817;&#817;/e̗/é/è/e̖/e̬/ê/ē̄y/ēy/ey/e̱y/e&#817;&#817;y/e̗y/éy/èy/e̖y/e̬y/êy/ē̄a/ēa/ea/e̱a/e&#817;&#817;a/e̗a/éa/èa/e̖a/e̬a/êa/ī̄/ī/i/i̱/i&#817;&#817;/i̗/í/ì/i̖/i̬/î/ə̄̄/ə&#772;/ə/ə&#817;/ə&#817;&#817;/ə&#790;/ə&#769;/ə&#768;/ə&#791;/ə&#812;/ə&#770;/ə̄̄y/ə&#772;y/əy/ə&#817;y/ə&#817;&#817;y/ə&#790;y/ə&#769;y/ə&#768;y/ə&#791;y/ə&#812;y/ə&#770;y/ū̄a/u&#772;a/ua/u&#817;a/u&#817;&#817;a/u&#790;a/u&#769;a/u&#768;a/u&#791;a/u&#812;a/u&#770;a
== Dialects ==
 
== Orthography ==
Zzean is written in the Zzean script and uses a very deep orthography, like Tibetan.
 
== Vocabulary ==
{{PAGENAME}} is generally purist.

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