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Humpback Whelsh/Lexicon

Humpback Whelsh/Swadesh list

Humpback Whelsh is a Naquic language spoken in Talma, descended from Naquian. It is distantly related to modern Adutsib languages such as Sfətsiv.

It's inspired by Welsh.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Lateral	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/			ng /ŋ/
Stop	unaspirated	pp /p/	tt /t/	tts /ts/	ttσ /tɬ/	ttj /tʃ/	cc /k/
	aspirated	p /pʰ/	t /tʰ/	ts /tsʰ/	tσ /tɬʰ/	tj /tʃʰ/	c /kʰ/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/	dz /dz/	dλ /dɮ/	dj /dʒ/	g /g/
Fricative	voiceless	f /f/	th /θ/	s /s/	σ /ɬ/	sj /ʃ/	ch /x/	h /h/
	voiced	v /v/	dh /ð/	z /z/	λ /ɮ/		gh /ɣ/
Approximant				r /r/		y /j/	w /w/

Mutations

Soft, nasal, geminate

• tt > dh, tt, th
• t > d, n, th

Vowels

in stressed syllables:

a ā e ē i ī o ō > æ a ə e ı i o u = ä a ə e ı i o u

Morphology

Nouns

The definite article is ı before consonants and ın before vowels.

Possessive pronouns: ro vib, w vib, a vib, go vib, zo vib, a mib = my house, your house, ...