Verse:Mwail/Wyacker

In Angai, Wyacker (natively wi:akkarung) 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) family. It is spoken in the Wyacker Confederacy (wi:akkar ngauëNTung). Many languages in the area are Wyacker-xenic.

Wyacker was the eighth-most spoken language worldwide in 2025, with 290 million L1 and L2 speakers. Wyacker is one of the six official languages of the Angaian United Nations.

Lexicon

• ya:D - treble harp brought by Theic (chiefly Shei²¹ A¹¹Mi³⁵)-speaking immigrants
• uppe: - all, every
• yungkarL - human
• i- / ingk- - (copula)
• i:pu 'I, me'
• oKKu 'name'
  • i:pung oKKu intta:r (ingkad). 'My name is Inthar.'
• poe, toe, koe, oe? are pronominal demonstratives
• wataL (from Thackish wụttle 'speech') 'talk, prattling; nonsense'
  • poe wataL oe ingkad? 'What nonsense is this?'
• arKa 'crow'

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 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

Nouns

Cases, plural marker

Gen. -ung

Verbs

Closed class, adjectives are verbs

Past and nonpast

Lots of converbs (Korean-style)

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

-d could be the 3rd person suffix, -a:n the plural suffix

Particles

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

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

• tattutattu 'in regular rhythm, with smaller motions'; TaTTuTaTTu 'in regular rhythm, with bigger motions'
• pikkupikku / PiKKuPiKKu 'with mischief'
• arangka 'flagrantly (doing wrong); (something embarrassing) in public view'
• mukkumukku / MuKKuMuKKu 'wolfing down food'
• wangkuluwangkulu 'periodically'
• yenguyengu 'slippery'
• mingimingi 'watery, bland'

Predicate ideophones are used with the 'be' verb i-: enpangku TaTTuTaTTu i-rr-a: '[Someone's] heart beat heavily'

intta:R wangkuluwangkulu pongngu:rad 'Inthar comes here periodically'