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== Phonology ==
== Phonology ==
'''Dŭhoug''' has 12 consonants and 8 distinct vowels.
'''Dŭhoug''' has 13 consonants and 8 distinct vowels.


=== Consonants ===
=== Consonants ===
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Revision as of 01:49, 7 January 2018


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Dahoukki
Dŭhoug
Pronounced: Native: /də.hok/
Anglicized: /də.hoʊ̯k.kiː/
Timeline and Universe: Alternate Earth
Species: Human
Spoken: Carnassus
Writing system: Syllabary
Genealogy: Language Isolate
Typology
Morphological type: Agglutinative
Morphosyntactic alignment: Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order: SOV
Credits
Creator: Thrice Xandvii |
Created: December 2015

Phonology

Dŭhoug has 13 consonants and 8 distinct vowels.

Consonants

  Labial Coronal Palatal Velar Laryngeal
Plosive p /p/ t /t/   k /k/ ʼ (q) /ʔ/
b /b/ d /d/ g /g/
Fricative     c /ɕ/ ~ [s]    
z /ʑ/ ~ [z]
Affricate     ć /ʨ/    
ź /ʥ/
Approximant r /ɺ/ ~ [ɾ] y /j/

Vowels

  Front Central Back
High Plain i /i/ u /ɯ/
Lax ŭ /ə/
Middle Plain e /e/   o /o/
Lax ĕ /ɛ/ ŏ /ɔ/
Low a /ä/

Phonotactics

Stress

Allophony

Script

The native script is called Hŭcukda (this term comes from 翡翠かな or *hisuikana, while this term doesn't exist in Japanese, the project itself has long had an association with jade — more specifically, nephrite — so, it became associated via Japanese with the written script). As is probably obvious, this script is substantially similar to Japanese's hiragana script.

  k c t p d* h b* y r q ć
a DHG-a.png DHG-ka.png DHG-ca.png DHG-ta.png DHG-pa.png DHG-da.png DHG-ha.png DHG-ba.png DHG-ya.png DHG-ra.png DHG-qa.png DHG-ki.pngTemplate:DHGsm
i DHG-i.png DHG-ki.png DHG-ci.png DHG-ti.png DHG-pi.png DHG-di.png DHG-hi.png DHG-bi.png DHG-ri.png DHG-qi.png DHG-ki.pngTemplate:DHGsm
ŭ DHG-u.png DHG-ku.png DHG-cu.png DHG-tu.png DHG-pu.png DHG-du.png DHG-hu.png DHG-bu.png DHG-yu.png DHG-ru.png DHG-qu.png DHG-ki.pngTemplate:DHGsm
ĕ DHG-e.png DHG-ke.png DHG-ce.png DHG-te.png DHG-pe.png DHG-de.png DHG-he.png DHG-be.png DHG-ye.png DHG-re.png DHG-qe.png DHG-ki.pngTemplate:DHGsm
ŏ DHG-o.png DHG-ko.png DHG-co.png DHG-to.png DHG-po.png DHG-do.png DHG-ho.png DHG-bo.png DHG-yo.png DHG-ro.png DHG-qo.png DHG-ki.pngTemplate:DHGsm
Ø DHG--k.png DHG--c.png DHG--t.png DHG--p.png DHG--d.png DHG--h.png DHG--b.png DHG--r.png DHG--q.png DHG--k.pngTemplate:DHGsm
  • Note: The letters marked with an asterisk (d and b) above are noted as such since they are etymological. As such, they are only used to spell words that came from an *n or an *m, respectively.
  • A dakdi (*dakuten) can be added to any kana with a voiceless consonant to make it voiced instead.
  • Likewise, the "long" vowels are achieved by adding a small i, or ŭ after the relevant kana. So to arrive at Cu, one adds a small ŭ after a kana ending in "-ŭ", for Ce, one adds a small i after a kana ending in "-ĕ", and for Co, one adds a small ŭ after a kana ending in "-ŏ".

Examples

The following are a series of words and phrases written in Dahoukki script.

  • Dŭhoug:

DHG-du.pngDHG-ho.pngTemplate:DHGsmDHG--k.png

  • Hŭcukda:

DHG-hu.pngDHG-cu.pngTemplate:DHGsmDHG--k.pngDHG-da.png

  • Argatu:

DHG-a.pngDHG--r.pngDHG-ka+dakdi.pngDHG-tu.pngTemplate:DHGsm

  • Dakdi:

DHG-ta+dakdi.pngDHG--k.pngDHG-ti+dakdi.png

Grammar

Nouns

Lexicon

For a full list of words in Dŭhoug, see: Lexicon.

Since almost all of the words in Dahoukki are derived directly from modern Japanese, any word can be created when needed by running the word through sound changes and making some accommodations for changes in meaning.

Sound Changes

See: Sound Changes for full list of sound changes from Japanese.

Creator Comments