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*Voiceless plosives and affricates are lightly aspirated.
*Voiceless plosives are ''not'' aspirated.
*The fricatives <v þ ß s g> are voiced intervocalically.
*The fricatives <v þ ß s g> are voiced intervocalically.
*Gemination is phonemic.
*Gemination is phonemic.

Revision as of 02:05, 27 March 2017

Hmøøh/Drug names is a language in the Tie-Dye family.

It's inspired by my older draft of Ancient Wiebian, titled "Classical Wiobian", and User:Praimhín's old conlang Windermere.

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Wiobium Chloride consonants
Labial Alveolar Medial Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ń /ɲ/ ng /ŋ/
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ z /c/ k /k/ q /ʔ/
prenasalized mp /ᵐp/ nt /ⁿt/ ńz /ᶮc/ nk /ᵑk/
implosive b /ɓ/ d /ɗ/
Fricative v /f~v/ ß /s~z/ s /ç~ʝ/ g /x~ɣ/ h /h/
Liquid r /r/; l /l/ ŕ /ɹ/
Approximant w /w/ j /j/
Notes
  • Voiceless plosives are not aspirated.
  • The fricatives <v þ ß s g> are voiced intervocalically.
  • Gemination is phonemic.

Vowels

  Front Central Back
Close i /i/ ü /y/ u /u/
Close-mid e /e/ ö /ø/ o /o/
Mid e /ə/
Open-mid ä /ɛ/ å /ɔ/
Open a /a/ /ɑ/

Diphthongs: ei öü ou ia ie io iu üö uo

Prosody

Stress

Most of the time, the stress falls on the first syllable. Exceptions are sesquisyllables that result from epenthesis of initial consonant clusters.

Intonation

Phonotactics

The syllable structure is (C)(C)V(C)(C), where V can be a vowel or a diphthong.

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Verbs

Subject affixes

Object affixes