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Fyxámian (jowe Fësham) is a creole of various Bjeheondian languages, including Rhythoed, Kieng, Tsjoen, and Hmooby-Doo.

Todo

Rhythoed /ʟ/ > /ŋ/

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ng /ŋ/
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ ch /tʃ/ k /k/ [ʔ]
voiced b /b/ d /d/ j /dʒ/ g /g/
Fricative unvoiced f /f/ s /s/ sh /ʃ/ h /h/
voiced z /z/
Liquid r, l /ɾ~l/
Approximant w /w/ y /j/
  • Initial /ŋ/ is disallowed.
  • /ɾ~l/ has the following allophonic distribution:
    • [l] l before /i/, before any consonant, and word-finally.
    • [ɾ] r otherwise.

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i /i/ ï /ɨ/ u /u/
Mid e /e/ ë /ə/ o /o/
Open a /a/

Phonotactics

Clusters are allowed as in Tsjoen and Rhythoed.

Grammar

Fyxámian Creole is an analytic language. Like most Bjeheondian languages, it is SVO.

Nouns

The plural, which is optional, can be formed with reduplication: zet 'tree'; zet-zet 'trees'. Nouns otherwise do not inflect.

Pronouns

  • li (Rhyth rie) = I
  • hen (Rhyth łen) = you (sg)
  • in (Rhyth in) = he, she
  • ya (Hmooby-Doo ja) = it
  • lili = we
  • henen = you (pl)
  • inin = they (animate)
  • yaya = they (inanimate)

Adpositions