Verse:Hmøøh/Drug names

Hmøøh/Drug names is a language in the Tie-Dye family. It's inspired by my older draft of Ancient Wiebian, titled "Wiobian".

dei = 'land'

Phonology

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 /ᵐb/	nt /ⁿd/	ńz /ᶮɟ/	nk /ᵑg/
	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

Wiobium Chloride has short and long versions of the following monophthongs (except for /ə/ which only occurs in unstressed syllables):

	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/

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.

Phonotactics

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