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Proto-Phwaim is a fictional language by [[User:Polka Dot|Polka Dot]]. Proto-Phwaim is the reconstructed ancestor of the Phim-Hwan languages, a family spoken for the most part in the central region of Ryusi. It is estimated to have been spoken around 10.000 HW. | Proto-Phwaim is a fictional language by [[User:Polka Dot|Polka Dot]]. Proto-Phwaim is the reconstructed ancestor of the Phim-Hwan languages, a family spoken for the most part in the central region of Ryusi. It is estimated to have been spoken around 10.000 HW. | ||
== | ==Phonology== | ||
The reconstructed phoneme inventory of Proto-Phwaim is shown in the tables below: | The reconstructed phoneme inventory of Proto-Phwaim is shown in the tables below: | ||
=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
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|+Proto-Phwaim Consonantal Phonemes | |+Proto-Phwaim Consonantal Phonemes | ||
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===Vowels=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- align=center | |||
! rowspan="2" | | |||
! colspan="2" | Front | |||
! colspan="2" | Back | |||
|- align=center | |||
! <small>unrounded</small> | |||
! <small>rounded</small> | |||
! <small>unrounded</small> | |||
! <small>rounded</small> | |||
|- align=center | |||
! Close | |||
| '''i''' [i] | |||
| '''ü''' [y] | |||
| | |||
|{{IPA|u}} | |||
|- align=center | |||
! Close-mid | |||
|{{IPA|e}} | |||
|{{IPA|ø}} | |||
| | |||
|{{IPA|o}} | |||
|- align=center | |||
! Mid | |||
|{{IPA|ɛ}} | |||
|{{IPA|œ}} | |||
|{{IPA|ə}} | |||
|{{IPA|ɔ}} | |||
|- align=center | |||
! Open | |||
| | |||
| | |||
|{{IPA|a}} | |||
| | |||
|} | |||
==Morphology== | |||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
Revision as of 06:59, 29 September 2016
Proto-Phwaim is a fictional language by Polka Dot. Proto-Phwaim is the reconstructed ancestor of the Phim-Hwan languages, a family spoken for the most part in the central region of Ryusi. It is estimated to have been spoken around 10.000 HW.
Phonology
The reconstructed phoneme inventory of Proto-Phwaim is shown in the tables below:
Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental, Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal(ized) | Velar | Uvular | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central | Lateral | |||||||
| Nasals | m [m] | n [n] | ń [ɲ] | ŋ [ŋ] | ||||
| Stops | Aspirated | ph [pʰ] | th [tʰ] | kh [kʰ] | ||||
| Voiceless | p [p] | t [t] | k [k] | |||||
| Voiced | b [b] | d [d] | g [g] | |||||
| Affricates | Aspirated | čh [t͡ʃʰ] | ćh [t͡ɕʰ] | |||||
| Voiceless | č [t͡ʃ] | ć [t͡ɕ] | ||||||
| Voiced | ǧ [d͡ʒ] | ǵ [d͡ʑ] | ||||||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | s [s] | ṣ [ɬ] | š [ʃ] | x[χ] | |||
| Palatalized | s' [sʲ] | ṣ' [ɬʲ] | š' [ʃʲ] | x'[χʲ] | ||||
| Voiced | z [z] | ẓ [ɮ] | ž [ʒ] | ḥ[ʁ] | ||||
| Approximants | v [w] | y [j] | ||||||
| Liquids | r [r] | l [l] | r' [rʲ] l' [ʎ] | |||||
Vowels
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |
| Close | i [i] | ü [y] | u | |
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |
| Mid | ɛ | œ | ə | ɔ |
| Open | a | |||
Morphology
Nouns
Proto-Phwaim had 13 cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, ablative, instrumental, comitative, terminative, Illative, allative, equative, partitive), two systems of number (singular-dual–plural and collective–singulative) and two genders (human vs nonhuman). A noun stem can take up to 2 types of suffixes:
stem + (number) + (case)
