Dyimkumt

Dyimkumt Dyimkumt
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Type
Alignment
Tripartite
Head direction
Initial	Mixed		Final
Primary word order
Subject-verb-object
Tonal
No
Declensions
Yes
Conjugations
Yes
Genders
none
Nouns decline according to...
Case		Number
Definiteness		Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice		Mood
Person		Number
Tense		Aspect

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar	Alveolo-palatal	Palatal	Velar	Labial-velar	Glottal
Nasal	m			n				ŋ
Plosive	p b			t d				k g
Fricative		f v	θ ð	s z	ʃ	ɕʰ				h
Affricate					dʒ
Approximant				r			j		w
Lateral app.				l

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i				u
Near-close		ɪ		ʊ
Close-mid	e				o
Mid			ə
Open-mid
Near-open
Open	a

Diphthongs:

• au [aʊ]
• ei [ei]
• ui [ʊi]
• ou [oʊ]
• eu [eu]
• yy¹ [i]

1. yy technically isn't a diphthong.

Writing to Phonotactics

The alphabet for Dyimkumt is relatively simple:

Upper case		A		B		C						D		E		F		G		H		I		J		K		L		M		N		O		P		R		S		T				U		V		W		Y		Z
Lower case		a		b		c						d		e		f		g		h		i		j		k		l		m		n		o		p		r		s		t				u		v		w		y		z
IPA	Normal IPA	[a]		[b]		[ɕʰ]						[d]		[e]		[f]		[g]		[h]		[ɪ]		[dʒ]		[k]		[l]		[m]		[n]		[o]		[p]		[ɹ]		[s]		[t]				[u]		[v]		[w]		[ɪ]		[z]
	Exceptions in the IPA	y_	[ə]	--		--						--		y_	[a]	--		--		--		y_	[i]	V_ or _V	[j]	--		--		--		--		--		--		--		_h	[ʃ]	#_h	[θ]	_h and not #_	[ð]	y_	[ʊ]	--		--		_V and not _y	[j]	--

This uses the SCA syntax. If you don't know of this, here is a little bit of information:

Key
_	the character
#	start(when it is placed before the string) or end(when it is placed before the string)
(...)	could be

Phonotactics

The syllable pattern is "[C(y/l/r)/P][V/D]N"(using awkword syntax), where C is a constant, V is a vowel, D is vowel diphthong, N is nasal, and P is constant pair.

The constant pairs are:

• th
• sh
• ng
• st
• Sf¹

1. S stands for sonorant

Basic grammar

In Dyimkumt, you naturally group subject and verbs together, as do you group adjectives and relationships, (which I will explain furter on) and tense identifier. All of of these you do with an apostrophe, which, verbally, can be spoken different ways. One way is to "invert" the aspiration on the next constant,(common to cyangeuhen dialect) like 't would be pronounced [tʰ], 'c, the exception, would now not be aspirated because it naturally is aspirated. Another way is to pronounce a glottal stop, common to most hebertan tribe dialects. The most uncommon way is to pronounce a bilabial click, ([ʘ]) which can be found in the unkisa dialect, a very small and weird dialect.

Another mix up between dialects is whether you have a apostrophe before every tense identifier, or in between every tense identifier.