Swuntsim
Modern Adetsib (Adhətsiv, pronunciation: /aðətsiv/) is a particular vernacular lect of Adetsib. It is a spoken language of the modern Adetsib people while Ancient Adetsib is still used liturgically.
Ideas
Have lots of allophony rules like Korean?
Diachronical sketch
- 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)
- sb sd > zv zd
- sxʷ > sf
- How do I get /m n/?
- /ʔb ʔd/ > /m n/
- Scüdhiξ < skʷudiƛ - somehow that seems a little off
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Laryngeal | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| central | lateral | plain | lab'zed | |||||||
| Nasal | m m | n n | ng ŋ | ngw ŋʷ | ||||||
| Stop | tenuis | p p | t t | c k | ʔ ʔ | |||||
| voiced | b b | d d | (g g) | gw gʷ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f f | s s | σ ɬ | sj ʂ | ch x | chw xʷ | h h | ||
| voiced | v v | z z | ||||||||
| Affricate | tenuis | ts ts | ξ tɬ | tj tʂ | ||||||
| voiced | dj dʐ | |||||||||
| Approximant | dh ð | y j | w w | l ɴ̆ | ||||||
g is an allophone of gw before rounded vowels /y o/
Vowels
i ü u e ə o a /i y u e ə o a/
Stress
???