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*The accusative is used only in certain set phrases in Modern Tei.


Plurals are formed with ''nto-'', so: ''Ntonßäht'' (trees), ''Ntonßähtem'' (of trees), ...
Plurals are formed with ''nto-'', so: ''Ntonßäht'' (trees), ''Ntonßähtem'' (of trees), ...

Revision as of 16:59, 22 August 2017

IlL/Spare pages 1/45 is an agglutinative language inspired by German, Khmer and Kaidu.

ẞahng = father

Nßäht = tree

Paŕer = stone

Ntŕahg = child

je = who

jan = what

jang = where

jies = how many

ßan, eir, buhz, jåhnß, ßeng, zkühnt, ntöü, nuot, ngiat, zråht [san, eir, ɓuːc, jɔːⁿs, ˈseŋ, ckyːⁿt, ⁿdøy, nuət, ŋiat, crɔːt]

wint = negative

nkelei Pientenk tur Boyenk. = I speak of love and hate.

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Wiobian uses the following 24 consonants:

Wiobian consonants
Labial Alveolar Medial Velar Lab.vel. Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ń /ɲ/ ng /ŋ/
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ z /c/ k /k/ qu /kʷ/
prenasalized mp /ᵐb/ nt /ⁿd/ ńz /ᶮɟ/ nk /ᵑg/ nqu /ᵑgʷ/
Fricative plain f /f~v/ ß /s~z/ s /ç~ʝ/ g /x~ɣ/ h /h/
prenasalized mf /ᵐv/ nß /ⁿz/
Liquid r /r/; l /l/ ŕ /ɹ/
Approximant j /j/ w /w/
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

Wiobian 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.

Intonation

Phonotactics

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

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Nßäht 'tree'
Nominative Nßäht
Accusative* Nßähter
Genitive Nßähtem
Illative/Inessive Nßähtel
Elative Nßähtels
Allative/Adessive Nßähten
Dative Nßähtene
Ablative Nßähtens
Instrumental/Comitative Nßähtemp
Essive Nßähtezz
Translative Nßähtenk
Abessive Nßähtmakk
  • The accusative is used only in certain set phrases in Modern Tei.

Plurals are formed with nto-, so: Ntonßäht (trees), Ntonßähtem (of trees), ...

Pronouns

Pronouns
Singular Plural
1 nkohz tahs
2 mei wäll
3 mpa (animate), mpi (inanimate)

Verbs

Subject affixes

Subject affixes
Singular Plural
1 nke- te-
2 en- le-
3 -
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