Hederdau is one of the more conservative lects of Wiebian. It is meant to parody Danish and Vietnamese.
Muckenachhederdauhäule < muqqenakos hēdirō ḍawis > Muqanach èar Ḍhaoi
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasals | /m/ | /n/ | /ɲ/ | /ŋ/ | ||
Stops | plain | /p/ | /t/ | /t͡ʃ/ | /k/ | |
aspirated | /pʰ/1 | /tʰ/ | /t͡ʃʰ/ | /kʰ/ | ||
Fricatives | plain | /f/ | /s/ | /ʃ/ | /x/ | /h/ |
voiced | /v/ | /z/ | ||||
Approximants | central | /w/ | /ð̞/ | /j/ | /ʁ/ | |
lateral | /l/ |
1 Only found in loanwords.
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 /fɔˤːʊ̯ʔ/
- 10: kier /tʃʰɤˁːʔ/