Songulda language
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Songulda Songulda | |
Spoken in: | |
Conworld: | |
Total speakers: | |
Genealogical classification: |
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Basic word order: | |
Morphological type: | agglutinative |
Morphosyntactic alignment: | ergative |
Writing system: | |
Created by: | |
Qwynegold |
Phonology
Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
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Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasals | m | n | ŋː | |||||||||||||
Plosives | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
Fricatives | s | ʃ | ʒ | x | h | |||||||||||
Affricates | ts | tʃ | dʒ | |||||||||||||
Approximants | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
Lateral Approximant | l |
Vowels | ||||||||||
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Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||
High | i | y | ɨ | u | ||||||
Near-high | ||||||||||
High-mid | ||||||||||
Mid | e | ø | o | |||||||
Low-mid | ||||||||||
Near-low | ||||||||||
Low | ɑ |
Syllable structure
The syllable structure for non-final syllables is (O)V(ː)((C)D(ː)), and for final syllables (O)V(ː)((C)D). For both syllable types, V can be any vowel. For non-final syllables O can be any consonant except /p/ or/ŋː/, and for final syllables any consonant except /ŋː/. The C and D have certain constraints. For non-final syllables, the coda can be any of the following consonants or clusters:
m | ||||||||||||||
n | nd | ns | nʒ | nx | nh | nts | ndʒ | |||||||
p | ||||||||||||||
b | ||||||||||||||
t | ||||||||||||||
d | ||||||||||||||
k | ||||||||||||||
g | ||||||||||||||
s | st | sk | ||||||||||||
ʃ | ||||||||||||||
ʒ | ||||||||||||||
x | ||||||||||||||
h | ||||||||||||||
tʃ | ||||||||||||||
dʒ | ||||||||||||||
ʋ | ʋd | ʋs | ||||||||||||
j | jt | jd | jk | jm | jn | jr | js | jx | jts | jdʒ | jl | |||
r | rt | rd | rk | rm | rs | rx | rts | rj | ||||||
l | lt | ld | lk | lm | ls | lʒ | lx | lts | ldʒ | lj |
For final syllables, the coda can be any of the following consonants or clusters:
m | mp | mt | mts | mtʃ | |||||||||||
n | nt | nd | ns | nʒ | nts | ndʒ | |||||||||
ŋk | |||||||||||||||
b | |||||||||||||||
t | |||||||||||||||
d | |||||||||||||||
g | gt | gd | gs | ||||||||||||
s | sp | st | sk | ||||||||||||
ʒ | |||||||||||||||
x | |||||||||||||||
h | |||||||||||||||
tʃ | |||||||||||||||
dʒ | |||||||||||||||
ʋ | ʋt | ʋd | ʋs | ||||||||||||
j | jt | jd | jk | jm | jn | jr | js | jx | jts | jdʒ | jl | ||||
r | rt | rd | rk | rm | rts | rj | rx | ||||||||
l | lp | lt | ld | lk | lm | ls | lʃ | lʒ | lx | lts | ltʃ | ldʒ | lj |
Writing
The romanized version of Songulda, which will be used from here on, is as follows:
Alphabet and pronunciation
A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z
Letter | Pronunciation | |
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A a | ɑ | |
B b | b | |
CH ch | tʃ | |
D d | d | |
DZ dz | dʒ | |
E e | e̽ | |
F f | f | |
G g | g | |
H h | h | |
I i | i | |
Ĭ ĭ | ɨ | |
J j | ʒ | |
K k | k | |
KH kh | x | |
L l | l | |
M m | m | |
N n | n | |
NG ng | ŋː | |
O o | o̽ | |
Ö ö | ø̽ | |
P p | p | |
R r | r | |
S s | s | |
SH sh | ʃ | |
T t | t | |
TS ts | ts | |
U u | u | |
Ü ü | y | |
V v | ʋ | |
Y y | j |