Th’uȟw’aas’oor: Difference between revisions

|nativename = ϴ’ūxȟw’ās’ōr X̱ātł

|pronunciation = [θ’uχʷ’aːs’oːr ʜat͡ɬ]

|ethnicity = Pw’aach’a

|ancestor = Proto

Old

Classical  

Modern  

|dialects = Northern (Kxaʀsa)

Western (Mainland, Erpsxi)

Th’uȟw’aas’oor (ϴ’uȟʷ’ās’ōr X̱ātł, [θ’uχw’aːs’or ʜaːt͡ɬ] or ϴ’uȟʷ’ās’ōr [θ’uχʷ’aːs’or]) is the language of the Pw’aach’a, the indigenous inhabitants of the fictional moon Sirius. Th’uȟw’aas’oor is a constructed language created by Macy Sinrich, a 17 year old in Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Th’uȟw’aas’oor uses the Latin script with small modifications that include the three diacritics (ˉ, ̠ ,ˇ) placed adjacent to certain letters.  

An apostrophe (ʼ) is used to mark ejectives consonants,  (e.g. ƙʼ, čʼ). And Labialized consonants are marked with modifier letter small W (w)

Th’uȟw’aas’oor's writing system uses the Latin alphabet and consists of 39 letters. The following table gives their upper-case forms, along with IPA values for each letter's sound:

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Th’uȟw’aas’oor has a large phonemic inventory, with 69 consonants and 10 vowels.  

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|tʷ dʷ

|ts

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|tsʼ

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|ʃ

|ʃʼ

|w

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In phonology, the most prominent distinguishing element of Peninsular Th’uȟw’aas’oor, except for the southernmost ones, is the Palatalization and Labialization of the vowels /i/ and /u/. The vowel, /i/ is palatalized and pronounced [j] and /u/ is labialized and pronounced like [w].  

Th’uȟw’aas’oor contains many "harmonic clusters" involving two consonants of a similar type (plain or ejective) which are pronounced with only a single release; e.g. the name of the western dialect of Erpsxi (of the sea’), Tskłta (life), and Ḥalq’cƙʷ’a (water). Clusters in Th’uȟwaas’oor containing four, five or six consonants are not unusual—for instance, the words for /pθkt͡s’eli/ (hard), and /ostxrt͡sapʃq’a/ ("to behave”)

# '''Nominative – used when the noun is the subject or a predicate nominative.

# '''Accusative — used when the noun is the direct object of the subject.

# '''Dative – used when the noun is the indirect object of the sentence.

# '''Ablative – used when the noun demonstrates separation or movement from a source, cause, agent or instrument.

# '''Genitive – used when the noun is the possessor of or connected with an object

# '''Vocative – used when the noun is used in a direct address.

# '''Locative- used when the noun indicates a location.  

# '''Instrumental — used when the noun is the instrument or means by or with which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action.

!Epicene/Plural

|They

|themself / themselves

===Tense===

# '''The first principal part is the singular first-person, present active form.  

# '''The second principal part is the present active infinitive.

# '''The third principal part is the first-person singular, perfect active indicative.  

Th’uȟw’aas’oor is an SOV language. There are three major levels or gradation of honorific, low, medium, and high

# '''Low honorific is used by elder speakers to address a younger individual, especially of that of a child.  

# '''Medium honorific is used by individuals to denote someone of the same social status or age

# '''High honorific is frequently used by younger speakers to denote respect for an elder.  

For a person to be considered litterate, they must translate and read this poem perfectly.

:Kū 7u čxʷū pu ȟuku kʷujłukʷ,

:xtu7 piw šīkʷī qak lapxʷa qi.

:ƛaj hā ja 7ū qu kʷ’ū xc’iw kaj,

:ƛūt lī šīsq cajčukʷ xīj taj.

:čū kʷ’aw ptujt’aw c’ī xlū čujc p’iw.  

:Kʷ’uj ław čaw xʷūj kši 7aw ƛap cikʷ,

:Łułqujp q’i hu kiw t’uha ȟiƛ łu płiqʷ.