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! colspan="5" | [[w:Labial consonant|Labial]] !! colspan="5" | [[w:Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]] !! colspan="3" | [[w:Palatal consonant|palatal]] !! colspan="5" | [[w:Velar consonant|Velar]] !! colspan="3" | [[w:Labialization|Labialized | ! colspan="5" | [[w:Labial consonant|Labial]] !! colspan="5" | [[w:Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]] !! colspan="3" | [[w:Palatal consonant|palatal]] !! colspan="5" | [[w:Velar consonant|Velar]] !! colspan="3" | [[w:Labialization|Labialized dorsal]] !! colspan="3" | [[w:Uvular consonant|Uvular]] !! [[w:Glottal consonant|Glottal]] | ||
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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
Central Isles Creole stress position and realization varies by area and speaker. | Central Isles Creole stress position and realization varies by area and speaker. | ||
===Phonotactics=== | |||
Syllables are at most (C(C₁))V((C₁)C), with C₁ being more sonorous than C. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
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[[Category:Wasc languages]] | [[Category:Wasc languages]] | ||
[[Category:Sekhulla languages]] | |||
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[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||
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| Central Isles Creole | |
|---|---|
| lonxwìŋooo | |
| Pronunciation | [lõ̞˥xʷi˩ŋo̞ːː˥] |
| Created by | Dillon Hartwig |
| Date | 2022 |
| Setting | Pollasena |
| Native to | Knrawi Isles, Kilimossu states |
| Era | -900 to -600 MT |
Creole
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Early form | |
Central Isles Creole (Central Isles Creole: lonxwìŋooo [lõ̞˥xʷi˩ŋo̞ːː˥]) is a Knrawi-based creole spoken in the central Knrawi Isles and western Ternium.
Orthography
Central Isles Creole is generally not written, but may be written in Wacag. Its romanization is as follows.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | palatal | Velar | Labialized dorsal | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | mˀ | n | nˀ | ŋ | ŋˀ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Stop | p | b | pʰ | pˣ | bˀ | t | d | tʰ | tˣ | dˀ | k | kʰ | kˣ | kʷ | kʷʰ | kʷˣ | q | qʰ | qˣ | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡θ | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | vˀ | θ | ð | ðˀ | ʃ | ʒ | ʒˀ | x | ɣ | ɣˀ | xʷ χʷ | χ | h | ||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ l | ɹˀ lˀ | j | jˀ | w | wˀ | |||||||||||||||||||
- Voiced fricatives and sonorants (except /j(ˀ) w(ˀ)/) can be syllabic.
Vowels
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | ɪ | iː | iːː | ʊ | uː | uːː | |||
| Mid | e̞ | e̞ː | e̞ːː | o̞ | o̞ː | o̞ːː | |||
| Low | a | aː | aːː | ||||||
- All vowels can be oral or nasal.
Tones
| High | Low |
|---|---|
| ˥ | ˩ |
Prosody
Central Isles Creole stress position and realization varies by area and speaker.
Phonotactics
Syllables are at most (C(C₁))V((C₁)C), with C₁ being more sonorous than C.
Morphology
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Negation
Numerals
Syntax
Constituent order
Word order is strictly SOV.
Noun and verb phrases
All modifiers follow their head noun or verb if not affixed. Modifiers follow their head, numerators follow adjectives, possessors follow all other modifiers.
Dependent clauses
Dependent clauses follow the head they modify after all other dependents, and their head noun is often backed to the end of its clause.
Example texts
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1
Linguifex-hosted translations
- Translated works in Central Isles Creole
- Central Isles Creole/Test Case Sentences
- Central Isles Creole/Corpus