Literature talk:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/3
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/3 /bələn/ is a "CW-complex" language spoken in eastern Cuadhlabh. It's inspired by Turkish, Vietnamese and User:Praimhín's old Windermere.
Todo
Notes
- A = one of the vowels ȧ/a/ꜵ
- O = one of the vowels ė/e/o
- U = one of the vowels i/ı/u
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Medial | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ņ /ɲˁ~ɳ/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | ț /cˤ~ʈ/ | k /k/ | |||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | ḑ /ɟˤ~ɖ/ | g /ɡ/ | ||||
| Fricative | f /f/ | t̆ /θ/ | s /s/ | ș /çˤ~ʂ/ | x /x/ | h /h/ | ||
| Approximant | lateral | l /l/ | ļ /ʎˁ~ɭ/ | |||||
| central | v /β̞~w/ | d̆ /ð̞/ | y /j/ | r /jˤ~ɻ/ | ğ /ɣ̞~ɰ/ | |||
- Notes
- Voiceless plosives and affricates are lightly aspirated.
- The medial consonants /ɲˁ, cˤ, ɟˤ, çˤ, ʎˁ, jˤ/ vary by idiolect and may be retroflex [ɳ, ʈ, ɖ, ʂ, ɭ, ɻ] or pharyngealized palatal/"bunched" [ɲˁ, cˤ, ɟˤ, çˤ, ʎˁ, jˤ].
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i /i/ | ı /ɨ/ | u /u/ |
| Close-mid | ė /e/ | e /ə/ | o /o/ |
| Open-mid/Open | ȧ /ɛ/ | a /ä/ | ꜵ /ɔ/ |
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
Nouns have a separate combining form: for example, final b, d, ḑ, g are lenited to approximants v, d̆, r, ğ
- -nU = genitive (nȧx = person, nȧxni = person's; med = house, med̆nı = house's; suḑ = woman, surnu = woman's)
- -ņ, -ț + -nU > -ņņU, -țņU