Swuntsim
Swuntsim | |
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təSfətsiv | |
Pronunciation | [/təsfətsiv/] |
Created by | IlL |
Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Tsimulh
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Sfətsiv (natively təSfətsiv /təsfətsiv/) is a modern Tsimulh language. It is the vernacular language of the Sfətsiv people.
It's inspired by Lushootseed and Welsh.
Todo
pluralization - mess it up
- utcütsi or cütsi = 'shell'? 'skin'?
- Scütsi (Class 4 - collectives and augmentatives) = personal name, meaning 'patient, enduring'
Diachronical sketch
- m n > v dh
- sn > zd
- b d > b d
- g > gh > compensatory lengthening
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
- gʷ > w when not word initial.
- sb sd > zv zd
- xʷ > 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 Sfətsiv alphabet. It's occasionally transcribed into Windermere, Talmic or Clofabic scripts.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Laryngeal | Glottal | ||||
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central | lateral | plain | lab'zed | ||||||
Nasal | m m | n n | |||||||
Stop | tenuis | p p | t t | c k | cw kʷ | ʔ ʔ | |||
voiced | b b | d d | g g | gw 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 tɬ | tj tʃ | |||||
voiced | dj dʒ | ||||||||
Approximant | (r r) | y j | w w | (l ɴ̆) |
gw, chw become g, ch before rounded vowels /y u o/.
r, l are 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
Modern Sfətsiv has effectively lost the noun class system, which was still active in Sacred Sfətsiv. Pronouns and verbs only agree in animacy and number.
Nouns
-s: genitive
-s- is often inserted between nouns in compounds.