Verse:Hmøøh/Some Æ-Xenic thing

Hmøøh/Some Æ-Xenic thing
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Tsimulh Hmøøh/Some Æ-Xenic thing

Idosian (Nizotsam) is a Tsimulh language spoken in Txapoalli. It is one of the more innovative Tsimulh languages.

Todo

• • intervocalic ʔ, h after a, e, o, i, u > ɹ
  • intervocalic ʔ, h after î > y, after û > w
  • high/fricated î, û > i u
  • First get some hiatusing vowels
• im, in in closed syllables > am, an
• p-less: p becomes glottal stop?

Consonants

Idosian is unusual among Tsimulh languages in that it natively has a liquid consonant. Idosian gained /ɹ/ from Old Shalian influence; /ɹ/ may even occur word-initially (coming from words with null initial).

Modern Idosian has 26 consonants:

		Labial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar		Uvular		Glottal
			central	lateral		plain	labialized	plain	labialized
Nasal		m	n			ŋ
Stop	plain		t			k	kw /kʷ/			ʔ
	voiced	b	d			g	gw /gʷ/
Affricate			c /ts/		č /tʃ/
Fricative	voiceless		s	σ /ɬ/	š /ʃ/	h /x/	hw /xʷ/	x /χ/	xw /χʷ/
	voiced		z /z/		ž /ʒ/
Approximant		r /ɹ~ʋ/			y /j/		w

Vowels

Hmøøh/Some Æ-Xenic thing vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i /i/	ə /ɨ~ɘ/	u /u/
Mid	e /e/		o /o/
Open		a /a/

/ə(ɹ) a(ɹ) e(ɹ) i(ɹ) i(j) o(ɹ) u(ɹ) u(w)/ < Pre-Idosian ə a e i î o u û /ə a e ɪ i̝ o ʊ u̝/ < Proto-Tsimulh /a ą e į i ę ų u/