Verse:Hmøøh/Drug names

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Hmøøh/Drug names is a member of the Quihum language family and a close relative of the Pfeunic languages. It is the major influence on the Kammalic language Trây.

It's inspired by my older draft of Ancient Wiebian, titled "Classical Wiobian".

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Wiobian consonants
Labial Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ń /ɲ/ ng /ŋ/
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ z /c/ k /k/ q /ʔ/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ ɟ /ɟ/ g /ɡ/
Fricative voiceless v /f~v/ þ /θ~ð/ ß /s/ ƨ /ʃ/ s /ç~ʝ/ h /x~ɣ/ ħ /h/
voiced ʒ /z/ /ʒ/
Affricate /ts/
Liquid r /r/; l /l/ ĺ /ʎ/
Approximant w /w/ j /j/
Notes
  • Voiceless plosives and affricates are lightly aspirated.
  • The fricatives <v þ ß s h ƕ> are voiced intervocalically.
  • Gemination is phonemic.

Vowels

  Front Central Back
Close i /i/ ü /ɯ/ u /u/
Close-mid e /e/ ö /ɤ/ o /o/
Mid e /ə/
Open-mid ä /ɛ/ å /ɔ/
Open a /a/

Diphthongs: ei ou öü ia ie io iu uo üö /ei ou ɤɯ ia iə io iu uə ɯə/

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.

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Verbs

Subject affixes

Object affixes