Swuntsim

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Swuntsim
Sfətsiv
Pronunciation[/sfətsiv/]
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SettingVerse:Tricin
Tsimulh
  • Swuntsim
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Sfətsiv (pronunciation: /sfətsiv/) is an modern Tsimulh language. It is the vernacular language of the Sfətsiv people.

It's inspired by Lushootseed and Welsh.

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Ancient Sfətsiv

Diachronical sketch

Getting the aesthetic

  • i u ə a il ul əl al > at first i ü ə a ẽ ũ õ ã > then i ü ə a e(n) u(n) o(n) a(n) (kill nasalization before fricatives and word-finally)
  • q qʷ > ŋ ŋʷ > n m
  • > w when not word initial.
  • sb sd > zv zd
  • > f
  • ʔC > C: (geminate)
  • /ʔb ʔd/ > /b d/
  • Zəpətj ʔusansj ʔəsoməv tüdjonf = the living fish swims in water
  • σüches = mother; toches = father
  • tüdjo = water
  • dbic = house
  • σüʔən, tolitj = woman, man
  • Lə-toches bicf = My father is at home.
  • üvC > uuC

Orthography

Sfətsiv is usually written in the ancient Sfətsiv alphabet. It's occasionally transcribed into Windermere, Talmic or Clofabic scripts.

Phonology

Consonants

Swuntsim consonants
Labial Dental Palatal Velar Laryngeal Glottal
central lateral plain lab'zed
Nasal m m n n
Stop tenuis p p t t c k cw ʔ ʔ
voiced b b d d g g gw
Fricative voiceless f f s s σ ɬ sj ʃ ch χ chw χʷ h h
voiced v v dh ð
z z
zj ʒ
Affricate tenuis ts ts ξ tj
voiced dj
Approximant (r r) y j w w (l ɴ̆)

gw, chw become g, ch before rounded vowels /y u o/; g is an allophone of gw before /y u o/.

r is used in loanwords.

Geminates are allowed and are rendered by doubling (for digraphs, doubling the first consonant)

Vowels

i ü u e ə o a /i y u e ə o a/ + long vowels

Stress

???

Grammar

-sj: Definite suffix?

-s: genitive

-s: past tense

-s- is often inserted between nouns in compounds.