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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). | ||
''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.