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For the family of Quihum languages, see Wiebian.

IlL/Spare pages 1/45
Nkahn Wiobe
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|ᵑkaːn ˈwiobə]]
Created by	IlL
Setting	Hussmauch
Language family	Tie–Dye Dye IlL/Spare pages 1/45

IlL/Spare pages 1/45 /wiːˈoʊbiən/ is a language in the Tie-Dye family. It's inspired by my older draft of Ancient Wiebian, titled "Wiobian".

ßan, eir, buhz, jåhnß, ßengeŕ, zkühnt, ntöü, nuot, ngiet, zråht [san, eir, ɓuːc, jɔːⁿs, ˈseŋəɹ, ckyːⁿt, ⁿdøy, nuət, ŋiət, zrɔːt]

dei = 'land' (< kataay?)

y-, r- > s?

ly, ny > j

rn, rt, rnt, rl > ń, z, ńz, ŕ

ʟ > g

tj, ntj > ß, nß

rr > r

q > q /ʔ/

nq > ng

ʀ > h

Phonology

Consonants

Wiobian consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Medial	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/	ń /ɲˁ/	ng /ŋ/
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/	z /c/	k /k/
	prenasalized	mp /ᵐb/	nt /ⁿd/	ńz /ᶮɟ/	nk /ᵑg/
	implosive	b /ɓ~b/	d /ɗ~d/
Fricative	plain		ß /s~z/	s /ç~ʝ/	g /x~ɣ/	h /h/
	prenasalized		nß /ⁿz/
Liquid			r /r/; l /l/	ŕ /ɹ/
Approximant		w /w/		j /j/

Notes

• Voiceless plosives are not aspirated.
• The fricatives 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). Long vowels are marked with a following h.

	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: ai au 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.

Phonotactics

The syllable structure is (C)(C)V(C)(C), where V can be a vowel or a diphthong.

Morphology

Pronouns

Pronouns
	Singular	Plural
1	nkohz	tahs
2	ung	wäll
3	-

Verbs

Subject affixes

Subject affixes
	Singular	Plural
1	nke-	tes-
2	eng-	le-
3	-

Derivational morphology

• be- = verbal prefix, borrowed from Wiebian