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| '''s''' s || '''σ''' ɬ | | '''s''' s || '''σ''' ɬ | ||
| '''sj''' | | '''sj''' ʃ | ||
| '''ch''' χ | | '''ch''' χ | ||
| '''chw''' χʷ | | '''chw''' χʷ | ||
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| '''l''' ɴ̆ | | '''l''' ɴ̆ | ||
Revision as of 00:44, 25 December 2017
Sfətsiv (pronunciation: /sfətsiv/) is a particular vernacular lect of Adutsib. It is a spoken language of the modern Aduwhud people while Ancient Adutsib is still used liturgically. It is distantly related to another Naquic language, Humpback Whelsh.
Todo
Diachronical sketch
- i u ə a il ul əl al > at first i ü ə a ẽ ũ õ ã > then i ü ə a e(n) u(n) o(n) a(n) (kill nasalization before fricatives and word-finally)
- q qʷ > ŋ ŋʷ > n m
- gʷ > w when not word initial.
- sb sd > zv zd
- xʷ > f
- ʔC > C: (geminate)
- /ʔb ʔd/ > /b d/
- dzəpəč šə ʔusaqʷ ʔəsəqʷəb tuǰəltxʷ = the living fish swims in water
- Zəpətj ʔusansj ʔəsoməv tüdjonf
- σüches = mother; toches = father
- tüdjo = water
- bic = house
- σüʔən, tolitj = woman, man
- Lə-toches bicf = My father is at home.
- Some clusters are broken up to impose sonority hierarchy
- üvC > uuC
Test on Lushootseed words
- sduhubš > zdühüvsj > zdühuusj
- dxʷləbi > dəfləvi > dəfləvi
- skʷ'uy > scüy > scüü?
- dxʷləšucid > dəfləsjütsidh > dəfləsjütsii?
- ʔal ti sləx̌il > ʔå ti sləche
- qʷuʔ ti dəxʷəshəli 'Water is life' > müü ti dəfəsoli
- qʷibid ti adx̌əč > mivii ti aachətj
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Laryngeal | Glottal | ||||
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| central | lateral | plain | lab'zed | ||||||
| Nasal | m m | n n | |||||||
| Stop | tenuis | p p | t t | c k | ʔ ʔ | ||||
| voiced | b b | d d | (g g) | gw gʷ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f f | s s | σ ɬ | sj ʃ | ch χ | chw χʷ | h h | |
| voiced | v v | dh ð z z |
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| Affricate | tenuis | ts ts | ξ tɬ | tj tʃ | |||||
| voiced | dj dʒ | ||||||||
| Approximant | y j | w w | l ɴ̆ | ||||||
gw, chw become g, ch before rounded vowels /y u o/; g is an allophone of gw before /y u o/.
Geminates are allowed and are rendered by doubling (for digraphs, doubling the first consonant)
Vowels
i ü u e ə o å a /i y u e ə o ɔ a/ + long vowels. No diphthongs, tho.
Stress
???
Grammar
-sj: Definite suffix?