'Ináwah

'Ináwah
'Ináwah
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|ʔi.ˈná.wah]]
Created by	iancgil
Language family	'Ináwah

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Post Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b	t d				k g	ʔ
Nasal	m	n
Fricative			s z	ʃ		ɣ	h
Lateral Fricative		ɬ
Approximant					j
Lateral Approximant		l
Affricate		tɬ dɮ

Vowels

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	Front	Back	Diphthongs
Close	i	u	uj
Close-Mid	e		ej
Open	a		aj

Tones

'Ináwah technically only has two tones (high and neutral), but adjacent, identical vowels with contrasting tones may produce rising or falling tones with long vowel length in lax speech. A high tone is the marked tone and is denoted in romanization by an acute acent above the vowel and by a bar in native orthography.

Phonotactics

Allowed Syllables

• CV(h,j)
• ʔ(syllabic nasal)

Phonological Rules

• nasal > ʔ + syllabic / $_$
• j > i / V_$
• g > ɣ / V$_

Stress

• High tones always get primary stress.
• If there is a word with all identical tones, the ultimate syllable receives primary stress.
• In the event that there are varying tones, the last high tone receives the primary stress.

Orthography

Romanization

Most sounds are represented with the IPA equivalent except for a few mentioned here.

IPA	Romanization
ʔ	'
ɬ	lh
tɬ	tl
dɮ	dl
j	y

Other Orthographies

• Tlatá Logography
• Súdu Syllabary

Morphology

Verbs

Pronominal Prefixes

	Number	Prefix	'Ináwah Example	English
First Person	Singular
	Dual Inclusive
	Dual Exclusive
	Plural Inclusive
	Plural Exclusive

Negation

Negation	Prefix	'Ináwah Example	English
Simple Negation	ba-	bakemu	I don't walk.
Double Negation	'úba-, ba'úba-, 'úba'úba-, …	'úbakemu	I don't not walk.
Intensified Negation	ba+ba-, …	babakemu	I definitely don't walk.

Syntax

Word Order

SOV

Noun Phrase

• Noun + Postposition
• Noun + Adjective Phrase