Swuntsim

Sfətsiv/Lexicon

Sfətsiv/Swadesh list

Swuntsim
Sfətsiv
Pronunciation	[/sfətsiv/]
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Tsimulh Swuntsim

Sfətsiv (pronunciation: /sfətsiv/) is an modern Tsimulh language. It is the vernacular language of the Sfətsiv people.

It's inspired by Lushootseed and Welsh.

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Ancient Sfətsiv

Diachronical sketch

Getting the aesthetic

• i u ə a il ul əl al > at first i ü ə a ẽ ũ õ ã > then i ü ə a e(n) u(n) o(n) a(n) (kill nasalization before fricatives and word-finally)
• q qʷ > ŋ ŋʷ > n m
• gʷ > w when not word initial.
• sb sd > zv zd
• xʷ > f
• ʔC > C: (geminate)
• /ʔb ʔd/ > /b d/
• Zəpətj ʔusansj ʔəsoməv tüdjonf = the living fish swims in water
• σüches = mother; toches = father
• tüdjo = water
• dbic = house
• σüʔən, tolitj = woman, man
• Lə-toches bicf = My father is at home.
• üvC > uuC

Orthography

Sfətsiv is usually written in the Sfətsiv alphabet. It's occasionally transcribed into Windermere, Talmic or Clofabic scripts.

Phonology

Consonants

Swuntsim consonants

		Labial	Dental		Palatal	Velar		Laryngeal	Glottal
			central	lateral		plain	lab'zed
Nasal		m m	n n
Stop	tenuis	p p	t t			c k	cw kʷ		ʔ ʔ
	voiced	b b	d d			g g	gw gʷ
Fricative	voiceless	f f	s s	σ ɬ	sj ʃ	ch χ	chw χʷ		h h
	voiced	v v	dh ð z z		zj ʒ
Affricate	tenuis		ts ts	ξ tɬ	tj tʃ
	voiced				dj dʒ
Approximant			(r r)		y j		w w	(l ɴ̆)

gw, chw become g, ch before rounded vowels /y u o/; g is an allophone of gw before /y u o/.

r is used in loanwords.

Geminates are allowed and are rendered by doubling (for digraphs, doubling the first consonant)

Vowels

i ü u e ə o a /i y u e ə o a/ + long vowels

Stress

???

Grammar

-sj: Definite suffix?

-s: genitive

-s: past tense

-s- is often inserted between nouns in compounds.