Wirne
Nàu m̌ dwēig Qěi-Mēung. 'I don't speak Wirne.'
Introduction
Wirne (Ŧaƨƨen-Müđel; pronounced Qěi-Mēung /qʰaɪ212 mɔʏŋ55/, dialectally Qě-Mēung /qʰeː31 mɔʏŋ24/) is a relatively conservative Wiebian lect descended from Middle Wiebian. It is a tonal language inspired by German and Buyang.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | labialized | plain | labialized | plain | labialized | plain | labialized | plain | labialized | |||
| Nasal | m /m/ | mw /mʷ/ | n /n/ | nw /nʷ/ | nj /ɲ/ | ng /ŋ/ | ngw /ŋʷ/ | |||||
| Stop | tenuis | b /p/ | bw /pʷ/ | d /t/ | dw /tʷ/ | dsch /tʃ/ | g /k/ | gw /kʷ/ | ġ /q/ | ġw /qʷ/ | /ʔ/ | |
| aspirated | p /pʰ/ | pw /pʷʰ/ | t /tʰ/ | tw /tʷʰ/ | tsch /tʃʰ/ | k /kʰ/ | kw /kʷʰ/ | q /qʰ/ | qw /qʷʰ/ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | f /f/ | z /θ/ | zw /θʷ/ | sch /ʃ/ | schw /ʃʷ/ | ch /x/ | chw /xʷ/ | r /χ/ | rw /χʷ/ | h /h/ | |
| voiced | s /ð/ | sw /ðʷ/ | ||||||||||
| Approximant | voiceless | hw /ʍ/ | ||||||||||
| voiced | l /l/ | j /j/ | w /w/ | |||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||||||
| short | long | short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i /ɪ/ | ie /iː/ | ü /ʏ/ | ü, üh /yː/ | u /ʊ/ | u, uh /uː/ | ||
| Mid | e, ä /ɛ/ | e, ee, eh, ä, äh /eː/ | ö /œ/ | ö, öh /øː/ | e /ə/ | o /ɔ/ | o, oo, oh /oː/ | |
| Near-open | -r /ɐ/ | |||||||
| Open | a /a/ | a, aa, ah /aː/ | ||||||
Diphthongs: au /aʊ/ äu, eu /ɔʏ/ ei /aɪ/
for vowels I might keep MW vowels except /æ æː/ and /ɑ ɑː/ merge into /a aː/
i have to reinterpret /ja je iːa jaː wa wo uːa waː ɥa ɥø yːa ɥaː/ into Vr
> err, irr, ier, ehr, orr, urr, uhr, ohr, örr, ürr, ühr, öhr?
what about /əː/?
i'll merge it with /aː/
i might write the /aː/ from /əː/ as <ahr>
/j/ /w/ <-j -w> (ai and au are true nuclei)
qei sounds good
Partartian will have breathy voice btw
i'll give the rzaimy-like language a different name
final fricative > breathy (with compensatory lengthening) > falling tone
Qêi
there's no glottalized tone class unlike in RW (treated the same as breathy tone)
(high, low ) x (modal, breathy) = 4 tones
nice
maybe 4 tones as in mandarin
high modal = tone 2, high breathy = tone 3; low modal = tone 4, low breathy = tone 1