Vingdagese

Language Summary

Vingdagese Vưng-Ḍác Tǫ
Pronounced:	Native: /vɪŋ.ɗaːg tõ/ Anglicized: /vɪŋ.dəg.iːz/
Timeline and Universe:	Alternate Earth
Species:	Human
Spoken:	Carnassus
Writing system:	"Logography"
Genealogy:	Language Isolate
Typology
Morphological type:	Isolating
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Direct Inverse
Basic word order:	SVO; Head-Initial
Credits
Creator:	Thrice Xandvii | ✎
Created:	September 2017

Phonology

Description of sounds.

Consonants

	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Laryngeal
Nasal	m [m]	n [n]	ng [ŋ]
Plosive	p [p]	t [t]	c / q [k ~ q]	ʼ / Ø [ʔ]
Implosive	ḅ / b [ɓ]	ḍ / d [ɗ]	ġ / g [ɠ]
Fricative	v [β ~ v]	đ / z [ð ~ z]	j [ʝ]
Rhotic		r [ɾ ~ r]

Vowels

	Plain	Lax	Long	Nasal
A-Group	a [a]	e [ɛ]	á [aː]	ą [ã]
I-Group	i [i]	ư [ɪ]	é [eː]	į [ĩ]
O-Group	o [o]	ơ [ɔ]	ú [uː]	ǫ [õ]

Diphthong	ay [ɑɪ̯]	oy [ɔɪ̯ ~ oɪ̯]

Phonotactics

The general description of the syllable unit in Vưng Ḍác Tǫ is the following: (C)(F,R)V(P,N). There are, of course, some provisos that go along with that generic description. One of which is that a nasal or implosive consonant cannot form a cluster.

Allophony

Some general allophonic rules:

• If /k/ appears in a syllable before a vowel belonging to the o-group, it becomes /q/ (and is written as such).
• If /z/ forms a cluster with another consonant, it becomes /ð/.
• The o-group's diphthong's two realizations are in free variation and depend on the speaker.
• Whenever an implosive appears second in a two-syllable compound, it laxes the vowel in the first position of the compound (i.e. the language name).
• When initial, the rhotic is trilled, when it appears in compounds it is tapped.

Grammar

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Examples Here.

Script & Characters

Description

	ʼ	m	n	ng	p	t	c/q	ḅ	ḍ	ġ	v	đ	j	r	rh
a
i
o
e
ư											File:VDT-vu'ng.png vưng
ơ						File:VDT-tox.png tơ
á									dác
é
ú
ą
į
ǫ
ay
oy

• Chart will need some significant revisions for it to make it sensical and able to be an effective display of the logography as a whole.

Lexicon

—For a partial list of words in Vung Dác Tõ, see: Lexicon.

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