Sisiwön

"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).

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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, plus two vowel-modifying phonemes.

Consonants:

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          y

... 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 symobl C may also stand for a word-initial ∅, allowing vowel-initial words.

Word structure:

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