Verse:Hmøøh/Drug names

Hmøøh/Drug names is a member of the Quihum language family and a close relative of the Pfeunic languages. It is the major influence on the Kammalic language Trây.

It's inspired by my older draft of Ancient Wiebian, titled "Classical Wiobian".

Phonology

Consonants

Wiobian consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/		n /n/		ng /ŋ/
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/		t /t/	z /c/	k /k/	qu /kʷ/
	voiced	b /b/		d /d/	ɟ /ɟ/	g /ɡ/	ꝿu /ɡʷ/
Fricative	voiceless	v /f~v/	þ /θ~ð/	ß /s/	s /ç~ʝ/	h /x~ɣ/	ƕ /xʷ/	(ħ /h/)
	voiced			ʒ /z/
Affricate				tß /ts/
Liquid				r /r/; l /l/
Approximant					j /j/		w /w/

Notes

• Voiceless plosives and affricates are lightly aspirated.
• The fricatives <v þ ß s h ƕ> are voiced intervocalically.
• Gemination is phonemic.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i /i/	ü /ɯ/	u /u/
Close-mid	e /e/	ö /ɤ/	o /o/
Mid		e /ə/
Open-mid	ä /ɛ/		å /ɔ/
Open		a /a/

Diphthongs: ei ou öü ia ie io iu uo üö /ei ou ɤɯ ia iə io iu uə ɯə/

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.