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Introduction
Diltiazem is a Wakanic language spoken in eastern Cuadhlabh. It's inspired by Black Speech and is related to Verapamil.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | [ŋ] | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | k /k/ | |||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f /f/ | th /θ/ | s /s/ | sh /ʃ/ | kh /x/ | h /h~ɦ/ |
| voiced | v /v/ | z /z/ | gh /ɣ/ | ||||
| Trill | r /r/ | ||||||
| Approximant | l /l/ | y /j/ | |||||
Vowels
The vowels are similar to the Sanskrit system: a i u â î û ê ô ai au /ɐ e~i o~u aː iː uː eː oː ɐi ɐu/
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
Definite nouns suffix -(u)l to the stem: tain 'a person (nom)', tainul 'the person (nom)', tainatul 'the people (nom)'
| tain - human | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | tain | tainat | tainul | tainatul |
| Accusative | tainûk | tainatûk | tainulûk | tainatulûk |
| Genitive | tain-hai | tainat-hai | tainul-hai | tainatul-hai |
| Dative | tainun | tainatun | tainulun | tainatulun |
| Locative | tainud | tainatud | tainulud | tainatulud |
| Ablative | tainûl | tainatûl | tainulûl | tainatulûl |
The genitive case uses a clitic, -hai.