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Verse:Hmøøh

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Planetary characteristics

1 HM year = 381.3668618 Earth days

1 HM day = 25.6323176 hours

357.0806527870906 days (ratio)

86400

good for a 7 day week

357 = 51*7

leap day every 12.3988275678 years

months: 30 30 30 29 30 30 30 29 30 30 30 29(30)

every 12 except: when the year is divisible by 372

perfect for clofabians

so the years 270, 520, 790, X40, 10E0, 1360, 1610, 1880, ... are not leap years

actually if the year is divisible by 130944=352*372 it's a leap year

Continents:

  • Kuderau
  • Schrubstiempf

Languages of Modern Hussmauch

Old Proto-Pulchric gib

Consonants

Labial Coronal Palatal Dorsal Laryngeal
plain emph. plain emph. plain emph.
Nasal m /m/ M /mʶ/ n /n/ N /nʶ/ ng /ŋ/ NG /ɴ/
Stop tenuis p /p/ P /pʶ/ t /t/ T /tʶ/ k /k/ q /q/
voiced b /b/ B /bʶ/ d /d/ D /dʶ/ g /ɡ/ G /ɢ/
Fricative h /h/
Trill/Tap r /ɾ/ R /ɾʶ/
Approximant w /w/ l /l/ L /lʶ/ y /j/

Emphatic consonants are uvularized, as in Arabic.

Aspiration is allophonic in voiceless stops. The Luminese dialect aspirates stops more strongly than in the Rencadic dialect.

Gemination

Every consonant except /w j h/ can occur geminated between vowels. Geminate taps are realized as trills.

Gemination is indicated in the orthography by doubling the consonant letter; geminate ng and NG are written nng and NNG respectively.

Vowels

  Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close i /i/ i: /iː/ u /u/ u: /uː/
Mid e /e/ e: /eː/ o /o/ o: /oː/
Open a /a/ a: /aː/

Diphthongs: /ai/ /au/ (written ai au respectively)

Phonotactics

Only CV syllables are allowed, except:

  • a geminate consonant can begin a non-initial syllable
  • CVC and CVCː are allowed as the last syllable

Stress

Stress is almost always on the first long syllable, or if no syllable is long, the last syllable in the Rencadic dialect and the first syllable in the Luminese dialect.

Morphophonology

Languages of Postmodern Hussmauch

(No gibby descendants)

  • Clofabic: Clofabosin
    • Hiberno-Clofabic
    • Branch with Japanese-like syncope
    • Syncope every other syllable
  • Eomujic: Eomuji
    • Pseudo-Slavic branch
  • Nuric: Nurian
    • Branch with retro > front rounded vowels: æ˞ː e˞ː > ɶː øː > œː yː
      • Harmonization?
    • Branch with retroflex mania: arC > aC˞
    • Branch with imāla™: /a aː/ > /e eː/ after a slender consonant
      • then /o oː/ (or /ə əː/) lower to /a aː/, merging with /a aː/ after broad consonants
    • Branch with tˠ > tˠ; tʲ > tsʲ; θˠ > tsˠ; θ > t
    • Vȝ > nasal V
    • Proto-B/R/S branch:
Labial Dental Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Radical Glottal
plain pal. plain pal. plain pal.
Nasal mˠ mʲ n̪ˠ nʲ ɳ ɲ~ɲ̄ ŋ ɴ
Stop
/Affricate 		tenuis pˠ pʲ t̪ˠ tʲ ʈ tɕ k q
voiced bˠ bʲ d̪ˠ dʲ ɖ dʑ g ɢ
Fricative voiceless fˠ fʲ θˠ θʲ sˠ sʲ ʂ ɕ x χ ħ h
voiced vˠ vʲ ðˠ ðʲ zˠ zʲ ʐ ʑ ɣ ʁ ʕ
Trill rˠ rʲ
Approximant central ɹ~ɻ
lateral ɫ lʲ ɭ
    • Hmoob-esque
    • Irish pseudo-gib: the most conservative branch
  • Reberic: Reber Wiebian
    • Tone > register > final consonants?
  • Trâyic: Trây
  • Tergetic: Tergetian
    • Tonal Terg?

Hussmauchian drug names

Based on a "simplified Wiebosphere" phonology

Consonants

Consonants
Labial Coronal Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive unaspirated b /p/ d /t/ j /tɕ/ g /k/
aspirated p /pʰ/ t /tʰ/ ch /tɕʰ/ k /kʰ/
Fricative f /f/ s /s/ sh /ɕ/ kh /x/ h /h/
Approximant w /w~v/ l /l/ y /j/

Vowels

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i /i/ u /u/
Mid e /e/ ə /ø~ə~ɤ/ o /o/
Open a /a/

Diphthongs: ai ao /ai au/

Phonotactics

Consonant clusters are disallowed, except medial geminates and -NC- sequences. Only -ng can come in word-final position.

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