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|rowspan="2"|'''ia, ie''' [ɛ]
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Diphthongs: '''ai ei ao ou ar/ār ēr ier/īr ir our/ūr ur''' /aɪ̯ eɪ̯ aʊ̯ əʊ̯ ɑə ɜː jɛə jə ɔə wə/
Diphthongs: '''ai ei ao ou ar/ār ēr ier/īr ir our/ūr ur''' /aɪ̯ eɪ̯ aʊ̯ əʊ̯ ɑə ɜː jɛə jə ɔə wə/
'''ē''' /ɘː/ can be regarded as an allophone of '''ī''' /iː/ after broad consonants.


===Prosody===
===Prosody===

Revision as of 13:30, 3 March 2016


Introduction

Ufirlandisg (/ˈt͡ʃjəwtʲisk/; from PGmc *þiudiskaz) is a constructed Germanic language inspired by Mandarin and the Pfeunic language Qiēmxtier.


Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Consonant phonemes
Labial Dental/Alveolar Coarticulated Palatal Velar Glottal
plain pal. plain pal. plain pal.
Nasal m m n
Stop
/Affricate
tenuis b p d zh ǃ zhı ǀ j g k
aspirated p pʲʰ t t̪ʰ tʲʰ ch ǃʰ chı ǀʰ q tɕʰ k
Fricative f f s s sh ɧ x ɕ h h
Approximant w w ɥ l ɫ ʎ r, rı ɹ y j

When consonants written with ı is followed by a vowel, the ı is replaced with an i (except with /i/ and /iː/).

Vowels

Vowel phonemes
Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close i /i/ ī /iː/ u /u/ ū /uː/
Close-mid e /ə/ ē [ɘː]
Mid ie [ɛ] [ɛː] [ə] er /ɜː/
Open a /a/ ā /aː/

Diphthongs: ai ei ao ou ar/ār ēr ier/īr ir our/ūr ur /aɪ̯ eɪ̯ aʊ̯ əʊ̯ ɑə ɜː jɛə jə ɔə wə/

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources