Wyacker

In Angai, Wyacker (natively wi:akkarung; Thackish: Wỵạckẹr wụttle) is a head-final language inspired by Tamil, Pama-Nyungan languages, Polynesian languages, Danish, Arabic, and German. It belongs to the Pulchric (natively puLKarar yaDorLai; Thackish: Pụlkér yạzórlýe) family. It is spoken in the Wyacker Confederacy (wi:akkar ngauëNTung, Thackish: Wỵạckẹr Ngọwẹndíng) in the continent of Ghalki. Many Ghalkian languages in the area such as Thackish are Wyacker-xenic.

Pạtácọng Wạlạdóalẹen's romanization of Turkish: a e ı i o ö u ü -> <á ạ í ị ó ọ ú ụ>

Lexicon

• ya:D - treble harp brought by Theic (chiefly Shei²¹ A¹¹Mi³⁵)-speaking immigrants
• uppe: - all, every
• yungkarL - human
• i- / ingk- - (copula)

Phonology

Consonants

Wyacker has 18 phonemic consonants. It lacks fricatives.

		Labial		Coronal		Palatal	Dorsal
		plain	emph.	plain	emph.		plain	emph.
Nasal		m /m/	M /mˤ/	n /n/	N /n̪ˤ/		ng /ŋ/	NG /ɴ/
Stop		p /p/	P /pˤ/	t /t/	T /t̪ˤ/		k /k/	K /q/
Trill/Tap							(rr /ʀː/)
Approximant	central	w /ʋ/			D /ð̞ˤ/	y /j/	r /ʕ/
	lateral			l /l/	L /l̪ˤ/

Initial emphatics (except in ideophones) and liquids are prohibited.

Vowels

i /i/ i: /iː/ e /e/ e: /eː/ a /a/ a: /aː/ o /o/ o: /oː/ u /u/ u: /uː/ ai /aj/ au /aw/

By default, these vowels sound like [i e æ o u ɛj ɛw]; in RTR environments, [ɪ ɛ ɑ ɔ ʊ ɑj ɑw]. An RTR envionment is any vowel adjacent to an emphatic consonant.

Hiatus is always indicated with a diaeresis over the second vowel.

Grammar

Head-final like Tamil

Complementizer =nga or =NGa (depending on the C it attaches to)

Nouns

Cases, plural marker

Gen. -ung

Verbs

Closed class, adjectives are verbs

Past and nonpast

Lots of converbs (Korean-style)

Wi:äkkar ingk-aDa:n (Wyacker_person be-3PL)

Numerals

nga:yu '1'

oLaNu '2'

we:NGu '3'

ingkutu '4'

ye:npu '5'

ka:Lu '6'

puDaTu '7'

yo:ku '8'

aimu '9'

ngaNTu '10'

Ideophones

Initial emphatics are allowed in ideophones; emphatic-nonemphatic alternation functions like Korean ideophone vowel harmony

• tatu-tatu 'in regular rhythm, with smaller motions'; TaTu-TaTu 'in regular rhythm, with bigger motions'
• pikku-pikku / PiKKu-PiKKu 'with mischief'
• arangka 'flagrantly (doing wrong); in public view'
• mukku mukku / MuKKu MuKKu 'wolfing down food'
• wangkulu wangkulu / waNGKuLu waNGKuLu 'periodically'
• yengu yengu 'slippery'
• mingi mingi 'watery, bland'

Predicate ideophones are used with the 'be' verb i-