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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 early 2004, by a small group of members of the Conlang list.
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 a Yahoo group at [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlangcollaboration].  If you'd like to participate, feel free to join the group (as opposed to changing this page directly).   
This page is essentially a public repository of information on Sisiwön.  Work on the language is conducted in a Yahoo group at [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlangcollaboration].  If you'd like to participate, feel free to join the group (as opposed to changing this page directly).   
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)
''I know nothing about editing this Wiki, and the help page is blank. Help!'' (PaulBennett)

Revision as of 20:51, 1 July 2004

"Sisiwön" is the provisional name of a collaborative Conlang, started in early 2004, by a small group of members of the Conlang list.

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 a Yahoo group at [1]. If you'd like to participate, feel free to join the group (as opposed to changing this page directly).

I know nothing about editing this Wiki, and the help page is blank. Help! (PaulBennett)

Vowels:

There are a total of twenty phonetic vowels:

i ii ü üü ï ïï u uu e ee ö öö ë ëë o oo ä ää a aa
ɪ i: ʏ y: ɯ ɯ: ʊ u:

However, due to vowel harmony, any given word will only contain a subset of these, either

i ii ü üü e ee ö öö ä ää

or

ï ïï u uu ë ëë o oo a aa

Thus, it could be said that the language has 10 vowel phonemes, plus a +-back suprasegmental phoneme.

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: ï u ë o a, plus two vowel-modifying phonemes, /:/ and [+front], the last of which occurs zero or one times in each word, affecting all the vowels in it.

Consonants:

From the group's phonology file, still in X-Sampa:

                  lab   alv   lat   alvpa pal   vel   uvu   glo
Stops plain       p     t                       k     q
      aspirated   p_h   t_h                     k_h
      ejective    p_>   t_>                     k_>
Affricates              ts)   tK)   tS)
Fricatives        f     s     K     S           x           h
Nasals            m     n                       N
Liquids                 r     l
Semivowels

Labialized        lab   alv   lat   alvpa pal   vel   uvu   glo
Stops plain                                     k_w   q_w
      aspirated                                 k_w_h
      ejective                                  k_w_>
Affricates              ts)_w       tS)_w
Fricatives              s_w                     x_w
Nasals                                          N_w
Liquids           
Semivowels                                      w

Palatalized       lab   alv   lat   alvpa pal   vel   uvu   glo
Stops plain       
      aspirated   
      ejective    
Affricates              ts)_j
Fricatives              s_j
Nasals                  n_j
Liquids                 r_j   l_j
Semivowels                                j

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

Paul (?) had written:

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 ...

     p    t           k     q
     pʼ   tʼ          kʼ
     pʰ   tʰ          kʰ
     m    n           ŋ
f         s     ʃ     x           h
          ts    tʃ    
          ɾ
          l     
          ɬ     
          tɬ    
     w          j

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

Syllable structure:

It seems the consensus is CV(N) with N being any non-stop, non-affricate, or alternatively the aforementioned vowel-lengthening phoneme /:/. The symbol C may also stand for a word-initial ∅, allowing vowel-initial words.

Word structure:

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