Hlou-Shum languages

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Xaetjeonw /ˈɮɛtʃən/ (Xaetjeon: baeyghnae Xaetjeon /ˈpɛjɣnɛ ˈɮɛtʃʰən/) is a Naquic language whose aesthetics is based on Praimhín's Rencadian (which has been abandoned by the author). It is a modern descendant of Naquian.

Numbers 1-12: baev, diho, natj-S, tqov, dzaweo, bael-S, oth, loseoth, bas-S, gaeyo, dav, dadheo-S (multiples of 3 seimhiu)

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Lateral Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ng /ŋ/
Stop/Affricate tenuis b /p/ d /t/ dz /ts/ dx /tɬ/ dj /tʃ/ g /k/
aspirated p /pʰ/ t /tʰ/ ts /tsʰ/ tq /tɬʰ/ tj /tʃʰ/ c /kʰ/
Fricative voiceless f /f/ th /θ/ s /s/ q /ɬ/ sj /ʃ/ ch /x/ h /h/
voiced v /v/ dh /ð/ z /z/ x /ɮ/ zj /ʒ/ gh /ɣ/
Approximant l /ɫ/ y /j/ w /w/
Notes
  • In casual speech, the unaspirated stops and affricates /p t ts tɬ tʃ k/ are voiced intervocalically to [b d dz dɮ dʒ ɡ].

Vowels

Hlou-Shum languages vowels
Front Central Back
Close i /ɪ/ eu /ɨ/ u /ʊ/
Mid ae /ɛ/ eo /ə/ o /ɔ/
Open a /a/

Lenition

Normal p t ts s tq q tj sj c b d dz z dx x dj zj g
Lenited f th s h q h sj h ch v dh z 0 x 0 zj 0 gh
Normal m n ng w l y
Lenited w n ng w w y

Prosody

Stress

In native words stress is on the first syllable, not counting prefixes. In loans, stress falls on the same syllable as in the source language.

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Case

Xaetjeon nouns have only two cases, nominative and vocative. The vocative is formed by leniting the noun.

Number

Plural nouns are marked with a prefix dxa-L.

Definiteness

Definite nouns are marked with a suffix -nae.

Adjectives

Adjectives following feminine nouns (actually, nouns that ended in a vowel in Naquian) lenite.

Verbs

Synthetic verbs are not used, but a construction based on the copula + verbal noun construction.

Copula

Present tense
Singular Plural
1.ex lon lowae
1.in - lod
2 lo lob
3 loz lox