Modern Aquitanian
Wibian is a descendant of Old Wibian, inspired by Allemañisch.
- Nû miuden laz querde fon hling./Nû bimiuden querde fon hling. = I speak of love and hate
Phonology
Curiously, Wibian phonology is quite similar to Eevo phonology, similar to the relationship between Mandarin and English phonology.
Orthography
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | voiceless | /m̊/ | /n̊/ | ||||
| voiced | /m/ | /n/ | /ɲ/ | /ŋ/ | |||
| Stop | plain | /pʰ/ | /tʰ/ | /tɕʰ/ | /kʰ/ | /ʔ/ | |
| tense | /p˭/ | /t˭/ | [tɕ˭] | /k˭/ | |||
| voiced | /b/ | /d/ | /d͡ʑ/ | /g/ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | /f/ | /θ/ | /s/ | /ʃ/ | /h/ | |
| voiced | [v] | [ð] | /z/ | ||||
| aspirated | /sʰ/ | ||||||
| Approximant | voiceless | /w̥/ | /l̥/ | ||||
| voiced | /w/ | /l/ | /j/ | ||||
- /h/ may be written as either ⟨h⟩ or ⟨ch⟩; it is pronounced [x] after consonants.
Vowels
vowels: /a ə i u ɔ~aʊ ɛ~aɪ e~eɪ o~oʊ/, ~ denotes alternation.
The Wibian alternation is conditioned by the following rule:
- diphthongs before /ʔ, s, ŋ/ OR before nasals
- monophthongs otherwise?
The alternants are marginally phonemic, e.g. before consonants that don't alternate like /l, h/.
It originally came from the rule "diphthongs in closed syllables, monophthongs in open syllables" (plus diphthongization before /n, s/). This alternation operates after r, -nj > j and attendant vowel coloring.
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Wibian phonotactics are simple; the maximal syllable is C(j)VC.
Morphophonology
Liaison
Sandhi
After a word-final orthographic s, /b d g/ turn into their tense counterparts /p˭ t˭ k˭/.
Alternations upon suffixation
Morphology
Words derived from the inherited honorific system replaces pronouns almost completely. The pronoun nû (~ Sjowaazheñ nyaa, Thensarian nā, Eevo naw), though, still survives in modern Wibian - as a second-person pronoun!