Literature talk:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/3

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/3 /bələn/ is a "CW-complex" language spoken in eastern Cuadhlabh. It's inspired by Turkish, Vietnamese and User:Praimhín's old Windermere.

Notes

• A = one of the vowels ȧ/a/ꜵ
• O = one of the vowels ė/e/o
• U = one of the vowels i/ı/u

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Medial	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/		n /n/		ņ /ɲˁ~ɳ/	ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/		t /t/		ț /cˤ~ʈ/	k /k/
	voiced	b /b/		d /d/		ḑ /ɟˤ~ɖ/	g /ɡ/
Fricative		f /f/	t̆ /θ/	s /s/		ș /çˤ~ʂ/	x /x/	h /h/
Approximant	lateral			l /l/		ļ /ʎˁ~ɭ/
	central	v /β̞~w/	d̆ /ð̞/		y /j/	r /jˤ~ɻ/	ğ /ɣ̞~ɰ/

Notes

• Voiceless plosives and affricates are lightly aspirated.
• The medial consonants /ɲˁ, cˤ, ɟˤ, çˤ, ʎˁ, jˤ/ vary by idiolect and may be retroflex or sulcalized retroflex [ɳ, ʈ, ɖ, ʂ, ɭ, ɻ],, or pharyngealized pre-velar/"bunched" [ŋ̟ˁ, k̟ˤ, g̟ˤ, x̟ˤ, ʟ̟ˁ, ɰ̟ˤ]. The medial consonants are characterized by a low third formant (F3).

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i /i/	ı /ɨ/	u /u/
Close-mid	ė /e/	e /ə/	o /o/
Open-mid/Open	ȧ /ɛ/	a /ä/	ꜵ /ɔ/

Morphology

Nouns

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/3 is topic-prominent, like Japanese and Korean.

Final b, d, ḑ, g are lenited to approximants v, d̆, r, ğ before a prefix beginning with a consonant.

• -nU = plural (nȧx = person, nȧxni = people; med = house, med̆nı = houses; suḑ = woman, surnu = women; ''ŋꜵ = head > ŋꜵwor = as for the head)
  • -ņ, -ț + -nU > -ņņU, -țņU
• -dOr = topic marker (nȧx = person, nȧxdėr = as for the person; med = house, medder = as for the house; suḑ = woman, suḑḑor = as for the woman, ŋꜵ = head > ŋꜵdor = as for the head)
  • -t, -ņ, -ḑ, -ț, -ļ + -dOr > -ttOr, -ņḑOr, -ḑḑOr, -ţţOr, -ļḑOr