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"Sisiwön" is the provisional name of a collaborative Conlang, started in early 2004, by a small group of members of the Conlang list.
"Sisiwön" is the provisional name of a collaborative Conlang, started in June 2004, by a small group of members of the Conlang list: Paul Bennett, Alex Fink, Rob Haden, Joe, and Robert "Trebor" Jung.


The name itself, while phonologically compatible with the language, doesn't actually ''mean'' anything (yet).
The name itself, while phonologically compatible with the language, doesn't actually ''mean'' anything (yet).


''I know nothing about editing this Wiki, and the help page is blank. Help!'' (PaulBennett)
This page is essentially a public repository of information on Sisiwön.  Work on the language is conducted in the Yahoo group [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlangcollaboration ConlangCollaboration]. If you'd like to participate, feel free to join the group (as opposed to changing this page directly).


Vowels:
== Phonology ==


There are a total of twenty phonetic vowels:
=== Consonants ===
{|
! !! Labial !! Labiodental !! Alveolar !! Lateral !! Postalveolar !! Velar !! Uvular !! Glottal
|-
! Plosives
| p, p_h, p_> || - || t, t_h, t_> || - || - || k, k_h, k_>, k_w, k_w_h, k_w_> || q, q_w || -
|-
! Affricates
| - || - || ts), ts)_>, ts)_w, ts)_j || tK), tK)_> || tS), tS)_> tS)_w || - || - || - || -
|-
! Fricatives
| - || f || s, s_w, s_j || K || S [Why not S_w too? --Trebor] || x, x_w || - || - || h
|-
! Nasals
| m || - || n, n_j || - || - || N, N_w || - || - || -
|-
! Liquids
| - || - || r, r_j || l, l_j || - || - || - || - || - || -
|-
! Semivowels
| - || - || - || - || j || w || - || -
|}


i ii ü üü ï ïï u uu e ee ö öö ë ëë o oo ä ää a aa
There may be a restriction preventing labialized and palatalized consonants from occurring before [u] and [i], respectively.


However, due to vowel harmony, any given word will only contain a subset of these, either  
=== Vowels ===
There are a total of twenty phonetic vowels: i [I], ii [i:], ü [Y], üü [y:], ï [U_c], ïï [M:], u [U], uu [u:], e [E], ee [e:], ö [9], öö [2:], ë [V], ëë [7:], o [O], oo [o:], ä [a], ää [a:], a [A], aa [A:]. However, due to vowel harmony, any given word will only contain a subset of these, either the front series (i, ii, ü, üü, e, ee, ö, öö, ä, ää) or the back series (ï, ïï, u, uu, ë, ëë, o, oo, a, aa). It makes sense to think of Sisiwön as having five basic vowel phonemes (i, ü, e, ö, ä), plus two suprasegmental phonemes, [+long] and [+back], the latter occuring zero or one times in each word, affecting all the vowels in it.


i ii ü üü e ee ö öö ä ää
=== Syllable Structure ===
It seems the consensus is CV(N) with N being any non-stop, non-affricate, or alternatively the aforementioned vowel-lengthening suprasegmental [+long]. The symbol C may also stand for a word-initial 0-, allowing vowel-initial words.


or
=== Word Structure ===
Any number of syllables, as defined above, with no other constraints known at this time.


ï ïï u uu ë ëë o oo a aa
== Grammar ==


Thus, it could be said that the language has 10 vowel phonemes, plus a +-back suprasegmental phoneme.
=== Verbal Morphology ===
Verbs are marked agglutinatively for person and number of subject and objects (both direct and indirect), tense (past vs non-past), mood (indicative vs irrealis vs imperative), aspect (imperfect vs perfect) and evidentiality (probably as clitics, meanings as yet undecided).  


Also, given the syllable structure, it makes sense to think of vowel length as provided by a single /:/ phoneme, reducing the inventory even further to just five basic vowels, plus two vowel-modifying phonemes.
Inchoative and completive will probably be derivational and independent of the aspectual system.  


Consonants:
There are a small class of valence-increasing derivational operations that take f(x,y) -> g(z,f(x,y)), where g is "want", "cause", "allow", "prevent", or "fear", and maybe a small number of others.


Some of the consonants seem to be in a bit of a state of flux, particularly the labialised and palatalised series. There are definitely the following ...
=== Syntax ===


      p    t          k    q
Syntax is overwhelmingly, perhaps exclusively, head-final.  
      pʼ  tʼ          kʼ
      pʰ  tʰ          kʰ
      m    n          ŋ
  f        s    ʃ    x          h
          ts    tʃ   
          ɾ
          l   
          ɬ   
          tɬ   
      w          y


... plus labialised and palatalised variants of some of them.
== Lexicon ==


Syllable structure:
=== Swadesh List ===


It seems the consensus is CV(N) with N being any non-stop, non-affricate, or alternatively the aforementioned vowel-lengthening phoneme /:/. The symobl C may also stand for a word-initial ∅, allowing vowel-initial words.
#hand /p_hi:kE/
#left (hand) -/K9/ (/p_hi:kEK9/)
#right (hand) -/rE/ (/p_hi:kErE/)
#leg /N_wAtS)U/
##left leg /N_wAtS)UKO/
#foot /x_wi:pa/
#to walk /x_wIxpE/
#tooth          /mAtAn/


Word structure:  
[[Category: Swadesh lists]]


Any number of syllables, as defined above, with no other contstraints known at this time.
=== Other ===
 
#baby          /pElE/
#carry          /k_wAnV/
#snail          /q9lm9s/
 
[[Category:Collaborations]]
[[Category: Colllangs]]

Latest revision as of 17:25, 3 November 2012

"Sisiwön" is the provisional name of a collaborative Conlang, started in June 2004, by a small group of members of the Conlang list: Paul Bennett, Alex Fink, Rob Haden, Joe, and Robert "Trebor" Jung.

The name itself, while phonologically compatible with the language, doesn't actually mean anything (yet).

This page is essentially a public repository of information on Sisiwön. Work on the language is conducted in the Yahoo group ConlangCollaboration. If you'd like to participate, feel free to join the group (as opposed to changing this page directly).

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Labiodental Alveolar Lateral Postalveolar Velar Uvular Glottal
Plosives p, p_h, p_> - t, t_h, t_> - - k, k_h, k_>, k_w, k_w_h, k_w_> q, q_w -
Affricates - - ts), ts)_>, ts)_w, ts)_j tK), tK)_> tS), tS)_> tS)_w - - - -
Fricatives - f s, s_w, s_j K S [Why not S_w too? --Trebor] x, x_w - - h
Nasals m - n, n_j - - N, N_w - - -
Liquids - - r, r_j l, l_j - - - - - -
Semivowels - - - - j w - -

There may be a restriction preventing labialized and palatalized consonants from occurring before [u] and [i], respectively.

Vowels

There are a total of twenty phonetic vowels: i [I], ii [i:], ü [Y], üü [y:], ï [U_c], ïï [M:], u [U], uu [u:], e [E], ee [e:], ö [9], öö [2:], ë [V], ëë [7:], o [O], oo [o:], ä [a], ää [a:], a [A], aa [A:]. However, due to vowel harmony, any given word will only contain a subset of these, either the front series (i, ii, ü, üü, e, ee, ö, öö, ä, ää) or the back series (ï, ïï, u, uu, ë, ëë, o, oo, a, aa). It makes sense to think of Sisiwön as having five basic vowel phonemes (i, ü, e, ö, ä), plus two suprasegmental phonemes, [+long] and [+back], the latter occuring zero or one times in each word, affecting all the vowels in it.

Syllable Structure

It seems the consensus is CV(N) with N being any non-stop, non-affricate, or alternatively the aforementioned vowel-lengthening suprasegmental [+long]. The symbol C may also stand for a word-initial 0-, allowing vowel-initial words.

Word Structure

Any number of syllables, as defined above, with no other constraints known at this time.

Grammar

Verbal Morphology

Verbs are marked agglutinatively for person and number of subject and objects (both direct and indirect), tense (past vs non-past), mood (indicative vs irrealis vs imperative), aspect (imperfect vs perfect) and evidentiality (probably as clitics, meanings as yet undecided).

Inchoative and completive will probably be derivational and independent of the aspectual system.

There are a small class of valence-increasing derivational operations that take f(x,y) -> g(z,f(x,y)), where g is "want", "cause", "allow", "prevent", or "fear", and maybe a small number of others.

Syntax

Syntax is overwhelmingly, perhaps exclusively, head-final.

Lexicon

Swadesh List

  1. hand /p_hi:kE/
  2. left (hand) -/K9/ (/p_hi:kEK9/)
  3. right (hand) -/rE/ (/p_hi:kErE/)
  4. leg /N_wAtS)U/
    1. left leg /N_wAtS)UKO/
  5. foot /x_wi:pa/
  6. to walk /x_wIxpE/
  7. tooth /mAtAn/

Other

  1. baby /pElE/
  2. carry /k_wAnV/
  3. snail /q9lm9s/
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