Paang

Paang (rhư nténg Pạng) is a classical language of Hmøøhian author Tsayfuan's fantasy world. It is a monosyllabic tonal language with initial consonant mutations. It is inspired in-universe by Talmic and Æ, and I was actually inspired by Insular Celtic and Southeast Asian languages.

Paang poetry uses the Vietnamese lục bát meter, which Tsayfuan took from Æ poetry.

Todo

• May liberally steal vocab from Celtic and to a lesser extent Vietnamese
  • miền 'to desire'
  • riêmh 'never'
  • ciên 'old; distant'
  • ciến (clf. ô̍gh^L) 'age; distance'
  • fiển (clf. lló^L) 'soldier'
  • téng (clf. rhư^N) 'language'
  • biêdh 'food'
  • rhiền (clf. ngiềbh) 'path'
  • rhiên (clf. lló^L) 'maiden'

Phonology

Initials: /k kʰ χ ŋ ŋ̊ ŋʰ ɣ t tʰ θ n n̊ nʰ ð p φ f m m̊ mʰ v j r r̊ l ɬ w ʍ s h ʔ/

Nuclei: /i e ɛ a ɨ ə u o ɔ iə ɨə uə/

Finals: /ŋ͡m n ŋ r k͡p t k j ð ɨ̯ w/

Tones: a à ạ̇ á ả = mid low fall high rise

<g c ch ng hng nc gh d t th n hn nt dh b p f m hm mp bh j r rh l lh w wh s h 0 i ê e a ư ơ a u ô o ia/iê ưa/ươ ua/uô mh n ng r b d g i dh gh u>