Héhà

Héhà
Pronounced:	/héˈhà/
Timeline and Universe:	theoretically this universe, future
Species:	Humanoid
Spoken:	Northwest and central Lhined
Total speakers:	~10,000
Writing system:	Romanized Equivalent
Genealogy:	Pre-Tir'jauta  Héhà
Typology
Morphological type:	Isolating
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative Accusitive and Animacy Hierarchy
Basic word order:	SVIO
Credits
Creator:	Humancadaver101 aka Schwhatever aka Buckfush530
Created:	March 2008

Héhà is the language of the largest indigenous tribe to the mountainous area directly south of Lescealh. This group was largely displaced during the mass immigration from the Measceineafh, but not only has it survived in the vast majority of the more remote subregions, but also provided an extensive substrata (among other local languages) in the contemporarily dominant Eastern Rajo-Faraneit languages.

Phonology

	Bilabial	Apical Alveolar	Laminal Alveolar	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stop	p  b	t	d	k  g		ʔ
Affricate		ts_a	ts_m  dz
Nasal	m		n	ŋ	ɴ
Fricative	ɸ  β	s	z	ɣ	χ	h
Approximant		r
Lateral Flap			l

• Vowels
  • High Tone: /a i u e ʌ/
  • Low Tone: /a i u e ʌ/
  • Wild Tone: /a~ i~ u~ ə/

• Phonotactics
  • Onsets
    • Nothing
    • Any Consonant
    • /p b t d s z k g ʔ/ + /l n/
    • /p b s z k g ʔ/ + /r/
    • /p b ɸ β t d/ + /m/
    • /t d s z k g ʔ/ + /ɴ/
    • /k g ʔ/ + /χ/
  • Cores
    • Any Vowel
    • /i u/ + /a e ʌ/
  • Codas
    • Nothing
    • /p b t d s z k g m n ɴ r l/

• Distribution
  • /ɸ β ɣ h/ are only distinguished from /s z/ prior to nasal vowels.
  • /ts_a ts_m dz ŋ/ are only present syllable-initially

• Allophony
  • /ts_a ts_m dz/ + /i/ > [ʧi tɕi dʑi]
  • /kχ ʔχ/ > [qχ]
  • /pl tl sl kl ʔl/ > [pɬ tɬ sɬ kɬ ʔɬ]
  • Unstressed Vowels slightly centralise

• Tone Sandhi
  • HL and LH clusters have slight tonal contours
  • HWL and LWH are realised as HML and LMH regardless of stress
  • HˈWH and ˈWH are realised as HLH and LH
  • LˈWL and ˈWL are realised as LHL and HL
  • Otherwise WH and WL are realised as HH and LL
  • W# is realised as M