Verse:Mwail/Whyastian/Lexicon
< Verse:Mwail | Whyastian
Mwail/Whyastian/Lexicon is a topolect of Zzean. It is inspired by Navajo.
Phonology
Initials
Same as Navajo:
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palato- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lateral | affricate | plain | lab. | ||||||
| Nasal | plain | m | n | |||||||
| glottalized | (mˀ) | (nˀ) | ||||||||
| Stop | unaspirated | p | t | tˡ | ts | tʃ | k | ʔ | ||
| aspirated | tʰ | tɬʰ | tsʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | kʷʰ | ||||
| ejective | tʼ | tɬʼ | tsʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | |||||
| Continuant | fortis | s | ɬ | ʃ | x | xʷ | ||||
| lenis | z | l | ʒ | j | ɣ | ɣʷ | ||||
Nuclei
i, e, a, o, u, ii, ee, aa, oo, uu
Codas
-0 -n, -ñ, -', -ñ', -d, -l, -z, -zh, -i, -i' -w -w'
Nuclei are lengthened before the zero coda; hence short and long vowel + zero coda are phonetically long and overlong vowels respectively