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!colspan="2"| Dental | !colspan="2"| Dental | ||
!rowspan="2"| Palatal | !rowspan="2"| Palatal | ||
!colspan="2"| Velar | !colspan="2"| Velar | ||
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| '''n''' n || | | '''n''' n || | ||
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| '''p''' p | | '''p''' p | ||
| '''t''' t || | | '''t''' t || | ||
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| '''c''' k | | '''c''' k | ||
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| '''b''' b | | '''b''' b | ||
| '''d''' d || | | '''d''' d || | ||
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| ('''g''' g) | | ('''g''' g) | ||
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| '''f''' f | | '''f''' f | ||
| '''s''' s || '''σ''' ɬ | | '''s''' s || '''σ''' ɬ | ||
| '''sj''' | | '''sj''' ʃ | ||
| '''ch''' χ | | '''ch''' χ | ||
| '''chw''' χʷ | | '''chw''' χʷ | ||
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| '''dh''' ð<br/> '''z''' z || | | '''dh''' ð<br/> '''z''' z || | ||
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| '''ts''' ts || '''ξ''' tɬ | | '''ts''' ts || '''ξ''' tɬ | ||
| '''tj''' | | '''tj''' tʃ | ||
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| '''y''' j || ||'''w''' w | | '''y''' j || ||'''w''' w | ||
| '''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?