User:IlL/Spare pages 1/45

For the family of Quihum languages, see Wiebian.

IlL/Spare pages 1/45
Nkahn Wiober
Pronunciation	[[w:Help:IPA|ᵑkaːn ˈwiobər]]
Created by	IlL
Setting	Hussmauch
Language family	Tie–Dye Dye IlL/Spare pages 1/45

IlL/Spare pages 1/45 /wiːˈoʊbiən/ is a language in the Tie-Dye family. It's inspired by my older draft of Ancient Wiebian, titled "Wiobian".

ßan, eir, buhz, jåhnß, ßengeŕ, zkühnt, ntöü, nuot, ngiat, zråht [san, eir, ɓuːc, jɔːⁿs, ˈseŋəɹ, ckyːⁿt, ⁿdøy, nuət, ŋiat, zrɔːt]

mpu = a vocative particle

dei = 'land' (< kataay?)

y-, r- > s?

ly, ny > j

rn, rt, rnt, rl > ń, z, ńz, ŕ

ʟ > g

tj, ntj > ß, nß

rr > r

q > q /ʔ/

nq > ng

ʀ > h

Phonology

Consonants

Wiobian consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Medial	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/	ń /ɲˁ/	ng /ŋ/
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/	z /c/	k /k/
	prenasalized	mp /ᵐb/	nt /ⁿd/	ńz /ᶮɟ/	nk /ᵑg/
	implosive	b /ɓ~b/	d /ɗ~d/
Fricative	plain		ß /s~z/	s /ç~ʝ/	g /x~ɣ/	h /h/
	prenasalized		nß /ⁿz/
Liquid			r /r/; l /l/	ŕ /ɹ/
Approximant		w /w/		j /j/

Notes

• Voiceless plosives are not aspirated.
• /ᵐb ⁿd ᶮɟ ᵑg/ devoice to [ᵐp ⁿt ᶮc ᵑk] word-finally.
• The fricatives ß s g are voiced intervocalically.
• Gemination is phonemic.

Vowels

Wiobium Chloride has short and long versions of the following monophthongs (except for /ə/ which only occurs in unstressed syllables). Long vowels are marked with a following h.

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i /i/	ü /y/	u /u/
Close-mid	e /e/	ö /ø/	o /o/
Mid		(e /ə/)
Open-mid	ä /ɛ/		å /ɔ/
Open		a /a/

Diphthongs: ai au ei öü ou ia ie io iu üö uo

Prosody

Stress

Most of the time, the stress falls on the first syllable. Exceptions are verb prefixes and sesquisyllables.

Phonotactics

The syllable structure is (C)(C)V(C)(C), where V can be a vowel or a diphthong.

Morphology

Pronouns

Pronouns
	Singular	Plural
1	nkohz	tahs
2	ung	wäll
3	-

Verbs

Subject affixes

Subject affixes
	Singular	Plural
1	nke-	te-
2	eng-	el-
3	-

Derivational morphology

• be- = verbal prefix, borrowed from Wiebian