Verse:Hmøøh/Drug names

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Hmøøh/Drug names is a language in the Tie-Dye family. It's inspired by my older draft of Ancient Wiebian, titled "Wiobian".

dei = 'land' (< katáy)

y- > s?

ly, ny > j

rn, rt, rnt, rl > ń, z, ńz, ŕ

ʟ > g

tj, ntj > ß, nß

rr > r

r > ?

q > q /ʔ/

nq > ng

ʀ > h

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Wiobium Chloride 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 plain ß /s~z/ s /ç~ʝ/ g /x~ɣ/ h /h/
prenasalized /ⁿz/
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.

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Verbs

Subject affixes

Object affixes