Paang

Paang (rhư nténg Pạng) is a classical language of Tsayfuan's fantasy world. It is a monosyllabic tonal language with initial consonant mutations. It is inspired in-universe by Talmic and Æ, and I was actually inspired by Insular Celtic and Southeast Asian languages.

Paang poetry uses the Vietnamese lục bát meter, which Tsayfuan took from Æ poetry.

Todo

• May liberally steal vocab from Irish and to a lesser extent Vietnamese
  • miền 'to desire'
  • riêmh 'never'
  • ciên 'age; distance'
  • fiển 'soldier'
  • téng (clf. rhư^N) 'language'
  • biêdh 'food'
  • riền 'path'

Phonology

Initials: /k kh χ ng hng ngh (γ) t th θ n hn nh ð p φ f m hm mh v j r hr l hl w hw s h 2/

Nuclei: /i e a (ư) ə u o iə (ư)ə uə/

Finals: /ŋ͡m n ŋ r k͡p t k j ð (ư) w/

Tones: a à ạ á ả = mid low nạng high rise

<g c ch ng hng nc gh d t th n hn nt dh b p f m hm mp bh j r rh l lh w ww s h 0 i e a ư ơ a u o ia/iê ưa/ươ ua/uô mh n ng r b d g i dh gh u>