Hederdau is one of the more conservative lects of Wiebian. It is meant to parody Danish and Vietnamese.
Phonology
Initials
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | /m/ | /n/ | /ɲ/ | /ŋ/ | ||
| Stops | ||||||
| plain | /p/ | /t/ | /t͡ʃ/ | /k/ | ||
| aspirated | /pʰ/ | /tʰ/ | /t͡ʃʰ/ | /kʰ/ | ||
| Fricatives | plain | /f/ | /s/ | /ʃ/ | /x/ | /h/ |
| voiced | /v/ | /z/ | /ʒ/ | |||
| Approximants | /l/ | /j/ | /ʁ/ | |||
Vowels
The pharyngealized vowels are similar to pharyngealized vowels in Chemnitz German.
| Front | Central | Back | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | ||||||
| short | long | short | long | short | long | short | long | long | |
| Close | /i/ | /iː/ | /y/ | /yː/ | /ʉː/ | ||||
| Near-close | /ɪ̟/ | /ɪ̟ː/ | /ɵ/ | /ɵː/ | /ɤːˁ/ | /ʊːˁ/ | |||
| Mid | /ø/ | /øː/ | /ə/ | /oːˁ/ | |||||
| Open-mid | /ɛ/ | /ɛː/ | /œː/ | /ɞ/ | /ʌˁ/ | /ɔːˁ/ | |||
| Open | /aːˁ/ | ||||||||
Diphthongs: /ae aɵ/
Finals
Stød
Hederdau has three levels of stød:
- no stød: wans /vɛn/ 'stick'
- weak stød, realized as creaky voice: Wande /vɛ̰n/ 'body'
- strong stød, realized as final glottal stop: wann /vɛnʔ/ 'bake'
Numbers
- 1: wahm /vɛːmʔ/
- 2: diƨƨer /tiʃʌˤ/
- 3: narg /nɔˤːʊ̯ʔ/
- 4: đauf /ɡaɵʊ̯/
- 5: säliƨ /ze̝ːli/
- 6: stuhm /sd̥ʉːmʔ/
- 7: rut /ʁʉːð̩ʔ/
- 8: lerz /laːˁd̥/
- 9: pfarb /pfɔˤːʊ̯ʔ/
- 10: kier /tʃʰɤˁːʔ/