Wanya

Wanya
Pronounced:	[ˈwan.ja]
Timeline and Universe:	here and now
Species:	humans
Total speakers:	1
Writing system:	alphabet
Genealogy:	isolate
Typology
Basic word order:	SOV
Credits
Creator:	Fenhl
Created:	from January 2011 onward
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Wanya is a conlang by Fenhl. It serves as his personal language.

Phonology

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Nasal		m						n						ŋ
Plosive	p	b					t	d					k	g
Fricative		β	f	v		ð	s	z					x	ɣ		ʁ
Approximants		w						ɹ				j
Trill								r
Lateral Approximant								l				ʎ

• [ʃ] is an allophone of [s], occuring only in syllable codas.
• [ʒ] is an allophone of [z], occuring only in syllable codas.
• [β] and [ʙ] are in free variation.
• [ʁ] and [ʀ] are in free variation.

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
High	i									u
Near-high
High-mid					ɘ
Mid
Low-mid			ɛ							ɔ
Near-low
Low					a

• [ɪ] is an allophone of [i], occuring only in diphthongs.
• In stressed syllables, [ɘ] and [e] are in free variation.
• In unstressed syllables, [ɘ] and [ə] are in free variation.
• [a] and [ɐ] are in free variation.

Orthography

Wanya's native script is an alphabet, curretly in development.

Wanya has two romanizations: the Unicode-based romanization which always has exactly one letter for one sound (or letter in the native script), and the ASCII-friendly romanization which only uses Latin capital and small letters, spaces, and optionally punctuation marks. Here they are in comparison:

Phoneme	Unicode-based	ASCII-friendly
b		d		ɡ	Б	b	D	d	G	g	B	b	D	d	G	g
w		ɹ		j	W	w	Я	ɹ	Y	y	W	w	Ll	ll	J	j
p		t		k	P	p	T	t	K	k	P	p	T	t	K	k
ð		l		ʎ	Δ	δ	L	l	Λ	λ	Dd	dd	L	l	Y	y
i		ɘ		u	I	i	Ǝ	ə	U	u	I	i	X	x	U	u
β		r		ʁ	B	β	R	r	Ꝛ	ꝛ	Bb	bb	Rr	rr	R	r
v		z		ɣ	V	v	Z	z	Γ	γ	V	v	Z	z	Gg	gg
m		n		ŋ	M	m	N	n	Ŋ	ŋ	M	m	N	n	Nn	nn
f		s		x	F	f	S	s	X	x	F	f	S	s	Kk	kk
ɛ		a		ɔ	E	e	A	a	O	o	E	e	A	a	O	o

Grammar

The basic sentence structure is SVO.