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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' /bələn/ is a "CW-complex" language spoken in eastern Cuadhlabh. It's inspired by Turkish, Vietnamese and an older draft of [[Ancient Wiebian]].
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' /bələn/ is a "CW-complex" language spoken in eastern Cuadhlabh. It's inspired by Turkish, Vietnamese and an older draft of [[Ancient Wiebian]].


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Numbers:
1: kı
2: gos
3: wildė
4: alm
5: ḑerg
6: nȧy
7: ark
8: t̆ıņţ
9: hꜵm
10: bıņ
11: şur
12: fert
13: fert kı
14: fert gos
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24: ļꜵx
36: tifėn
48: xef
60: lisėb
72: rȧm
84: arked
96: t̆ıņţed
108: hꜵmod
120: fıned
132: şurod
144: kulb


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Revision as of 18:48, 15 June 2016

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/3 /bələn/ is a "CW-complex" language spoken in eastern Cuadhlabh. It's inspired by Turkish, Vietnamese and an older draft of Ancient Wiebian.

Numbers: 1: kı 2: gos 3: wildė 4: alm 5: ḑerg 6: nȧy 7: ark 8: t̆ıņţ 9: hꜵm 10: bıņ 11: şur 12: fert 13: fert kı 14: fert gos ... 24: ļꜵx 36: tifėn 48: xef 60: lisėb 72: rȧm 84: arked 96: t̆ıņţed 108: hꜵmod 120: fıned 132: şurod 144: kulb


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Notes

  • A = one of the vowels ȧ/a/ꜵ
  • O = one of the vowels ė/e/o
  • U = one of the vowels i/ı/u

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Medial Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ņ /ɲˁ~ɳ/ ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ ț /cˤ~ʈ/ k /k/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ /ɟˤ~ɖ/ g /ɡ/
Fricative f /f/ /θ/ s /s/ ș /çˤ~ʂ/ x /x/ h /h/
Approximant lateral l /l/ ļ /ʎˁ~ɭ/
central w /β̞~w/ /ð̞/ y /j/ r /jˤ~ɻ/ ğ /ɣ̞~ɰ/
Notes
  • Voiceless plosives and affricates are lightly aspirated.
  • The medial consonants /ɲˁ, cˤ, ɟˤ, çˤ, ʎˁ, jˤ/ vary by idiolect and may be retroflex or sulcalized retroflex [ɳ, ʈ, ɖ, ʂ, ɭ, ɻ] or pharyngealized pre-velar/"bunched" [ŋ̟ˁ, k̟ˤ, g̟ˤ, x̟ˤ, ʟ̟ˁ, ɰ̟ˤ]. The medial consonants are characterized by a low third formant (F3).

Vowels

  Front Central Back
Close i /i/ ı /ɨ~ɯ/ u /u/
Close-mid ė /e/ e /ə~ɤ/ o /o/
Open-mid/Open ȧ /ɛ/ a /ä/ /ɔ/

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/3 is topic-prominent, like Japanese and Korean.

Final b, d, ḑ, g are lenited to approximants v, d̆, r, ğ before a prefix beginning with a consonant.

  • -nU = plural (nȧx = person, nȧxni = people; med = house, med̆nı = houses; suḑ = woman, surnu = women; ŋꜵ = head > ŋꜵnu = heads)
    • , + -nU > -ņņU, -țņU
  • -dOr = topic marker (nȧx = person, nȧxdėr = as for the person; med = house, medder = as for the house; suḑ = woman, suḑḑor = as for the woman, ŋꜵ = head > ŋꜵdor = as for the head)
    • -t, , -ḑ, , + -dOr > -ttOr, -ņḑOr, -ḑḑOr, -ţţOr, -ļḑOr

Pronouns

Adjectives

Verbs

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources