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=Phonology=
=Phonology=
==Single Letters (Romanisation)==
==Single Letters (Romanisation)==
{|class="wikitable" style="width: 1000px"
{| {{style|center}}
!scope="col" colspan=2 width="100px" |
!scope="col" colspan=2 width="100px" |
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Bilabial
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Bilabial
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|-
!scope="row" colspan=2|Plosives
!scope="row" colspan=2|Plosives
|colspan="1" style="text-align: center"|p (p)<br />p<sup>w</sup> (pw)
|colspan="1"|p (p)<br />p<sup>w</sup> (pw)
|colspan="1" style="text-align: center"|b (b)<br />b<sup>w</sup> (bw)
|colspan="1"|b (b)<br />b<sup>w</sup> (bw)
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="3" style="text-align: center"|t (t)<br />t<sup>w</sup> (tw)
|colspan="3"|t (t)<br />t<sup>w</sup> (tw)
|colspan="3" style="text-align: center"|d (d)<br />d<sup>w</sup> (dw)
|colspan="3"|d (d)<br />d<sup>w</sup> (dw)
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|k (k)<br />k<sup>w</sup> (kw)
|colspan="2"|k (k)<br />k<sup>w</sup> (kw)
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|g (g)<br />g<sup>w</sup> (gw)
|colspan="2"|g (g)<br />g<sup>w</sup> (gw)
|-
|-
!scope="row" colspan=2|Fricatives
!scope="row" colspan=2|Fricatives
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="1" style="text-align: center"|f (f)<br />f<sup>w</sup> (fw)
|colspan="1"|f (f)<br />f<sup>w</sup> (fw)
|colspan="1" style="text-align: center"|v (v)<br />v<sup>w</sup> (vw)
|colspan="1"|v (v)<br />v<sup>w</sup> (vw)
|colspan="1" style="text-align: center"|θ (th)
|colspan="1"|θ (th)
|colspan="1" style="text-align: center"|ð (dh)
|colspan="1"|ð (dh)
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|s (s)<br />s<sup>w</sup> (sw)
|colspan="2"|s (s)<br />s<sup>w</sup> (sw)
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|h (h)
|colspan="2"|h (h)
|-
|-
!scope="row"  colspan=2|Nasals
!scope="row"  colspan=2|Nasals
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|m (m)
|colspan="2"|m (m)
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="6" style="text-align: center"|n (n)<br />n<sup>w</sup> (nw)
|colspan="6"|n (n)<br />n<sup>w</sup> (nw)
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|ɲ (ñ)
|colspan="2"|ɲ (ñ)
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
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|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="6" style="text-align: center"|r (r)
|colspan="6"|r (r)
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
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! rowspan=3 | Glides
! rowspan=3 | Glides
!scope="row"|Approxim.
!scope="row"|Approxim.
|colspan="1" style="text-align: center"|ʍ (hw)
|colspan="1"|ʍ (hw)
|colspan="1" style="text-align: center"|w (w)
|colspan="1"|w (w)
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="6"|ɹ (r)
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="6" style="text-align: center"|ɹ (r)
|colspan="2"|j (j)
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|j (j)
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|-
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|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="6" style="text-align: center"|l (l)
|colspan="6"|l (l)
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|ɭ (l)
|colspan="2"|ɭ (l)
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|}
|}}


==Mutations==
==Mutations==

Revision as of 08:45, 27 January 2013

Overview

Gwythyr is one of my main conlangs and was created out of joy, a linguistic experiment, and also to be the main classical language for my series of Fantasy novels. Gwythyr is spoken by the dominant species of Anmarla and has an approximately 15 million speakers. At the time of my main novel series, the language and its native speakers are extinct, however Gwythyr is used as the language of academics, state and religious ceremonies and record/document keeping. However only the upper classes can read and speak it and even then only a minority of the upper classes. The seven languages of the nine different kingdoms during this time are all descended from Gwythyr. Gwythyr is in turn descended from Vamynouyynem.


Background

Gwyhtyr is an SVO synthetic-agglutinative language.