Verse:Hmøøh/Drug names
Hmøøh/Drug names is a language in the Tie-Dye family.
It's inspired by my older draft of Ancient Wiebian, titled "Classical Wiobian", and User:Praimhín's old conlang Windermere.
dei = 'land'
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Medial | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ń /ɲ/ | ng /ŋ/ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | z /c/ | k /k/ | q /ʔ/ |
| prenasalized | mp /ᵐb/ | nt /ⁿd/ | ńz /ᶮɟ/ | nk /ᵑg/ | ||
| implosive | b /ɓ/ | d /ɗ/ | ||||
| Fricative | v /f~v/ | ß /s~z/ | s /ç~ʝ/ | g /x~ɣ/ | h /h/ | |
| Liquid | r /r/; l /l/ | ŕ /ɹ/ | ||||
| Approximant | w /w/ | j /j/ | ||||
- Notes
- Voiceless plosives are not aspirated.
- The fricatives <v þ ß s g> are voiced intervocalically.
- Gemination is phonemic.
Vowels
Wiobium Chloride has short and long versions of the following monophthongs (except for /ə/ which only occurs in unstressed syllables):
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i /i/ | ü /y/ | u /u/ |
| Close-mid | e /e/ | ö /ø/ | o /o/ |
| Mid | (e /ə/) | ||
| Open-mid | ä /ɛ/ | å /ɔ/ | |
| Open | a /a/ |
Diphthongs: ei öü ou ia ie io iu üö uo
Prosody
Stress
Most of the time, the stress falls on the first syllable. Exceptions are sesquisyllables that result from epenthesis of initial consonant clusters.
Intonation
Phonotactics
The syllable structure is (C)(C)V(C)(C), where V can be a vowel or a diphthong.