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| in whâyacar whetmer | |
| Pronunciation | [/in ʍaˈjəkəɻ ˈʍɛʔmɛɻ/] |
| Created by | IlL |
| Setting | Verse:Tricin |
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Whetmer (English: /ˈʍɛtməɹ/ WHET-mer; natively: in whâyacar whetmer /in ʍaˈjəkəɻ ˈʍɛʔmɛɻ/, from Naquian in huēyacaz huehmiz) is the most divergent present day Naquic language, a minority language in Hetom. It's somewhat Faroese-, Sardinian- and Malagasy-inspired.
External history
Whetmer used to be an English giblang with clicks. I decided to use the name for a divergent Naquic language that has the /ʍ/ sound.
Grand Master Plan
- hu- > w-, u- > wh-
- Vz > Vr
- ī > i; i > e before r; i otherwise
- Get retroflexes from geminates (thus no initial retros)
- Câzrâ /kaʂa/ = Qazhra
Phonology
Add some Malagasy touch
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| central | lateral | central | lateral | plain | labialized | |||||
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | nr /ɳ/ | [ŋ] | ||||||
| Plosive | tenuis | p /p/ | t /t/ | tr /ʈ/ | c /k/ | qu /kʷ/ | h /ʔ/ | |||
| ejective | ph /pʼ/ | th /tʼ/ | trh /ʈʼ/ | ch /kʼ/ | ||||||
| Fricative | z /s/ | ł /ɬ/ | zr /ʂ/ | łr /ɬʵ/ | x /ɕ/ | |||||
| Affricate | tenuis | tz /ts/ | tł /tɬ/ | tzr /ʈʂ/ | tłr /ʈɬʵ/ | tx /tɕ/ | ||||
| ejective | tzh /tsʼ/ | tłh /tɬʼ/ | tzrh /ʈʂʼ/ | tłrh /ʈɬʵʼ/ | txh /tɕʼ/ | |||||
| Approximant | voiceless | wh /ʍ/ | ||||||||
| voiced | l, ll /l/ | r /ɻ/ | y /j/ | w /w/ | ||||||
Vowels
i î u û e ê o ô ai a â /i ui u iu e iə ə o uə ai ə a/; w y is used for devoiced /u i/.
After a stressed syllable, as at the end of most words and in the final two syllables of some, /u, i/ are reduced to [ʷ, ʲ]. Final /a/, and sometimes final syllables, are devoiced at the end of an utterance.
Grammar
Unlike other Naquic languages, Whehmer preserves much of Naquic declension. The syntax is also more head-initial.
Nouns and adjectives
- -i, -ia nouns: cadd /kəɖ/ 'song (nom sg)'; cedda /kɛɖ/ 'song (gen sg)'; cadder /kəɖɛɻ/ 'song (nom pl)'; cadden /kəɖɛn/ 'song (gen pl)', cadditl 'song of', caddéh 'songs of'
- w-stem nouns: ztûr, ztûir, ztûn, ztûn, ztûtl, ztûweh 'fire'