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Ueá - /ʌɛjæu:/ - the most complicated triphthong, sort of like saying away ow! | Ueá - /ʌɛjæu:/ - the most complicated triphthong, sort of like saying away ow! |
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úĞymbe Kaan (IPA: /ɣi:mbɛ kæ:n/) is a tribal language spoken in the ice wastelands of Ğymbe'a, the larges continent of the Moon of Pyk. The tribe is spread out amongst the frozen wastes, although they do meet up occasianlly for religious festivals and special hunting seasons, so dialects are pretty much the same.
The tribes have lived in the wastes for hundreds of generations, and skills of hunting, cloth-making, butchery and farming the Ekále are handed down from fater to son, mother to daughter, ect.
Alphabet, Diphthongs, Triphthongs and Consonant Clusters
The language is highly inflected, however has relatively simple sounds, and a rather short alphabet. Constisting of 5 vowels, and 13 consonants.
A - /æ/ as in Hat.
Á - /æʊ/ as in Power
B - /b/ as in Boat
D - /d/ as in dog
E - /ɛ/ as in pet
F - /f/ as in foot
Ğ - /ɣ/ Like the greek letter in γερή
G - /g/ as in good
K - /k/ as in Kill
L - /l/ as in long
M - /m/ as in more
N - /n/ as in no
P - /p/ as in person
R - /ɹ/ as in red
S - /s/ as in soon
T - /t/ as in tonne
U - /ʌ/ as in put
Ú - /u:/ and in Boom
Diphthongs
Ae - /æi:/ as in Eye
Au - /æu:/ as an Pow
Eu - /œ/ as in french Neuf
Ue - /ʊɛ/ as in went
Áu - /æu:ʌ/ as in Power
Úa - /u:æ/ as in Sewer (british pron.)
Áe - /æu:ɛ/ like saying Ow and Eh in quick succession
Úe - /u:ɛ/ Like saing 'Ou Est' in french
Triphthongs
There are only three possible triphthongs
Aua - /æʌæ/ Like a elongated version of hour (british pron.)
Eau - /ɛjæʴ/ - another odd triphthong, almost like sayin eyar
Ueá - /ʌɛjæu:/ - the most complicated triphthong, sort of like saying away ow!
Consonant Clusters
Sğ - /ʃ/ as in Short
Tğ - /ʧ/ as in Choose
Nğ - /nj/ as in Spanish Niño
Ng - /ng/ as in Thing
Lr - /w/ as in Was
Grammar
Ğymbe Kaan's grammar may seem imposing, and that's because it is. We'll start off with verbs, and who is doing them. Similar to Spanish, verbs in Ğymbe Kaan have three possible endings. The Masculine ending, aune, the femenine ending, unú and the Neutral ending, ida.
The idea is you take the final vowel of the ending and you add the inflection.
The verb 'to eat' is femenine, Dikitunú. These are it's inflections.
I eat - Dikitunasğ
You (sing) eat - Dikitunama
You (pl) eat - Dikitunamau
We eat - Dikitunibid
It (that is here) eats - Dikitunibo
It (that is not here) eats - Dikitunibú
He eats - Dikitunga
She eats - Dikitungasğ
They eat (that are here) - Dikitunur
They eat (that aren't here) - Dikitunulr.
The verb To Hunt is Masculine, Ğunaelranaune, these are it's inflections: