Verse:Hmøøh/Some Æ-Xenic thing

Hmøøh/Some Æ-Xenic thing
səyIdosm
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Tsimulh Idosic Hmøøh/Some Æ-Xenic thing

Idosian (səyIdosm lit. 'the language of the eastern people') is a major Tsimulh language mainly spoken in Idosia, a country in East Txapoalli. It is one of the more innovative Tsimulh languages.

Todo

• intervocalic ʔ, h after a, e, o, i, u > ɹ
• intervocalic ʔ, h after î > y, after û > w
• high/fricated î, û > i u
• First get some hiatusing vowels
• im, in in closed syllables > am, an
• p-less: p becomes glottal stop?

there could be a rule where every unstressed syllable gets lenited that would reduce the number of possible initial consonants and if you couple that with post tonic syncope you could get some crazy phonotactics

like no initial clusters or even initial stops but weird tibetan like clusters in the middle of a word

pda-sfëtsiv > hia-zëncm

Consonants

Idosian is unusual among Tsimulh languages in that it natively has a liquid consonant /ɹ/, whereas Proto-Tsimulh and most other Tsimulh languages do not natively have liquids. Old Idosian gained /ɹ/ via R-intrusion, influenced by an Old Shalian substrate; /ɹ/ may even occur word-initially (coming from words with null initial).

Modern Idosian has 25 consonants:

		Labial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar		Uvular		Glottal
			central	lateral		plain	labialized	plain	labialized
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/			ŋ /ŋ/
Stop	plain		t /t/			k /k/	kw /kʷ/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/			g /g/	gw /gʷ/
Affricate			c /ts/		č /tʃ/
Fricative	voiceless		s /s/	σ /ɬ/	š /ʃ/	x /x/	xw /xʷ/	ħ /χ/	ħw /χʷ/	h /h/
	voiced		z /z/		ž /ʒ/
Approximant		r /ɹ~ʋ/			y /j/		w /w/

Vowels

Hmøøh/Some Æ-Xenic thing vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i /i/	ə /ɨ~ɘ/	u /u/
Mid	e /e/		o /o/
Open		a /a/

/ə(ɹ) a(ɹ) e(ɹ) i(ɹ) i(j) o(ɹ) u(ɹ) u(w)/ < Pre-Idosian ə a e i î o u û /ə a e ɪ i̝ o ʊ u̝/ < Proto-Tsimulh /a ą e į i ę ų u/