Fyai Thǔvn

Fyai Thǔvn
Fyai Thǔvn
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|ɸʲai tʰɯβ̞n]]
Created by	–
Native speakers	4000 ({{{date}}})
Language family	Shwain Fyai Thǔvn

Background

Fyai Thǔvn is spoken on the fictional planet Tau-Ceti 2, by around 4000 people living on the shores of a large bay in the northwestern part of that planet's main continent. The people of Tau-Ceti 2 were transported there from Earth by aliens around the year 2000 BCE. The original location on Earth of the population whose descendants are the Fyai Thǔvn speakers is unknown, but some scholars claim they are from southern Volgograd Oblast, Russia. Their reconstructed proto-language (Proto-Shwain) morphologically resembled English, but now most of the family is strongly analytic and isolating. The original settlement of the Shwain people was across the north of the planet's main continent, but migrating waves of invading Pamian people from the south forced them into many enclaves, including Thǔvn Bay, in the northwest.

Phonology

Vowels

Phonemes
	Front	Central	Back
Closed	/i/	/ɨ/ <ï>	/u/ /ɯ/ <ǔ>
Mid-closed	/e/ <é>	/ɘ/ <e̋>	/o/ <ó>
Mid-open	/ɛ/ <e>	/ɜ/ <ë>	/ʌ ɔ/ <ǒ o>
Open	/a/ <a>		/ɑ/ <ǎ>

Diphthongs

/ai ae aɛ au aɯ ao aɔ aʌ/ <ai aé ae au aǔ aó ao aǒ> /oi oe oɛ/ <ói óé óe> /ɔi/ <oi>

Consonants

Phonemes	Bilabial	'Labio-Palatal	Labiodental	Alveolar	Retroflex'	Velar	Glottal
Stop	/p/	/pʲ/ <py>		/t/ <t>	/ʈ/
/k/ <k>
Aspirated Plosive	/pʰ/ <ph>			/tʰ/		/ʈʰ/ <trh>	kʰ <kh>
Nasal	/m/ <m>	/mʲ/<my		/n/ <n>	/ɳ/ <nr>	/ŋ/<g>
Fricative	/ɸ/ <fh>	/ɸʲ/ <fy>	/f/ <f>	/s/	/ʂ/ <sr>	/x/ <c>	/h/ <h>
Approximant	/β̞/ <v>	/ɥ/<y>		/ɹ~ɻ/  <r>		/ɰ/<w>
Lateral approximant				/l/ <l>	/ɭ/<lr>	ʟ <l'>

Phonotactics

(C)V(V)(A)(C) Where A is any approximant, whether central or lateral.

Permitted codas are any approximant, and /m n ɳ ŋ p t ʈ k/