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in whâyacar whetmer
Pronunciation	[/in ʍaˈjəkəɻ ˈʍɛʔmɛɻ/]
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Quihum Naquic IlL/Spare pages 1/28
Early form	Old IlL/Spare pages 1/28

Whetmer (English: /ˈʍɛtməɹ/ WHET-mer; natively: in whâyacar whetmer /in ʍaˈjəkəɻ ˈʍɛʔmɛɻ/, from Naquian in huēyacaz huehmiz) is the most divergent present day Naquic language, a minority language in Hetom. It's somewhat Faroese-, Sardinian- and Malagasy-inspired.

External history

Whetmer used to be an English giblang with clicks. I decided to use the name for a divergent Naquic language that has the /ʍ/ sound.

Grand Master Plan

• hu- > w-, u- > wh-
• Vz > Vr
• ī > i; i > e before r; i otherwise
• Get retroflexes from geminates (thus no initial retros)
• Câzrâ /kaʂa/ = Qazhra

Phonology

Add some Malagasy touch

Consonants

		Labial	Dental		Retroflex		Palatal	Velar		Glottal
			central	lateral	central	lateral		plain	labialized
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/		nr /ɳ/			[ŋ]
Plosive	tenuis	p /p/	t /t/		tr /ʈ/			c /k/	qu /kʷ/	h /ʔ/
	ejective	ph /pʼ/	th /tʼ/		trh /ʈʼ/			ch /kʼ/
Fricative			z /s/	ł /ɬ/	zr /ʂ/	łr /ɬʵ/	x /ɕ/
Affricate	tenuis		tz /ts/	tł /tɬ/	tzr /ʈʂ/	tłr /ʈɬʵ/	tx /tɕ/
	ejective		tzh /tsʼ/	tłh /tɬʼ/	tzrh /ʈʂʼ/	tłrh /ʈɬʵʼ/	txh /tɕʼ/
Approximant	voiceless								wh /ʍ/
	voiced			l, ll /l/		r /ɻ/	y /j/		w /w/

Vowels

i î u û e ê o ô ai a â /i ui u iu e iə ə o uə ai ə a/; w y is used for devoiced /u i/.

After a stressed syllable, as at the end of most words and in the final two syllables of some, /u, i/ are reduced to [ʷ, ʲ]. Final /a/, and sometimes final syllables, are devoiced at the end of an utterance.

Grammar

Unlike other Naquic languages, Whehmer preserves much of Naquic declension. The syntax is also more head-initial.

Nouns and adjectives

• -i, -ia nouns: cadd /kəɖ/ 'song (nom sg)'; cedda /kɛɖ/ 'song (gen sg)'; cadder /kəɖɛɻ/ 'song (nom pl)'; cadden /kəɖɛn/ 'song (gen pl)', cadditl 'song of', caddéh 'songs of'
• w-stem nouns: ztûr, ztûir, ztûn, ztûn, ztûtl, ztûweh 'fire'