Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/3 /bələn/ is a "CW-complex" language spoken in eastern Cuadhlabh. It's inspired by Turkish, Vietnamese and an older draft of Ancient Wiebian.
Todo
Notes
- A = one of the vowels ȧ/a/ꜵ
- O = one of the vowels ė/e/o
- U = one of the vowels i/ı/u
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Medial | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ņ /ɲˁ~ɳ/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | ț /cˤ~ʈ/ | k /k/ | |||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | ḑ /ɟˤ~ɖ/ | g /ɡ/ | ||||
| Fricative | f /f/ | t̆ /θ/ | s /s/ | ș /çˤ~ʂ/ | x /x/ | h /h/ | ||
| Approximant | lateral | l /l/ | ļ /ʎˁ~ɭ/ | |||||
| central | v /β̞~w/ | d̆ /ð̞/ | y /j/ | r /jˤ~ɻ/ | ğ /ɣ̞~ɰ/ | |||
- Notes
- Voiceless plosives and affricates are lightly aspirated.
- The medial consonants /ɲˁ, cˤ, ɟˤ, çˤ, ʎˁ, jˤ/ vary by idiolect and may be retroflex or sulcalized retroflex [ɳ, ʈ, ɖ, ʂ, ɭ, ɻ] or pharyngealized pre-velar/"bunched" [ŋ̟ˁ, k̟ˤ, g̟ˤ, x̟ˤ, ʟ̟ˁ, ɰ̟ˤ]. The medial consonants are characterized by a low third formant (F3).
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i /i/ | ı /ɨ~ɯ/ | u /u/ |
| Close-mid | ė /e/ | e /ə~ɤ/ | o /o/ |
| Open-mid/Open | ȧ /ɛ/ | a /ä/ | ꜵ /ɔ/ |
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/3 is topic-prominent, like Japanese and Korean.
Final b, d, ḑ, g are lenited to approximants v, d̆, r, ğ before a prefix beginning with a consonant.
- -nU = plural (nȧx = person, nȧxni = people; med = house, med̆nı = houses; suḑ = woman, surnu = women; ŋꜵ = head > ŋꜵnu = heads)
- -ņ, -ț + -nU > -ņņU, -țņU
- -dOr = topic marker (nȧx = person, nȧxdėr = as for the person; med = house, medder = as for the house; suḑ = woman, suḑḑor = as for the woman, ŋꜵ = head > ŋꜵdor = as for the head)
- -t, -ņ, -ḑ, -ț, -ļ + -dOr > -ttOr, -ņḑOr, -ḑḑOr, -ţţOr, -ļḑOr