Na'awasa

Na'awasa, [näˈäwäʃä] ("aetherling whisper", or "language of the people") is an a priori funlang with an extremely minimalist phonetic library and vocabulary, made by FrathWiki user Fizz, inspired by their friend.

Na'awasa is an artlang spoken by aether beings - angelic, genderless wisp spirits, invisible to humans but ever observant. In concept, their language can be heard as wind or whispers of natural environments.

Phonology and Simplified Transliteration

Na'awasa only has four consonants (/v, w, ʃ, n/), and only three vowels (/æ, ä, u/). These sounds were chosen for their qualities of sounding like the wind.

The language's word structure is composed of a simple consonant-vowel-(duplicate vowel), CV(V) syllabic system. Each word is composed of syllables that are exclusively composed of a consonant, then a vowel, and sometimes a stressed duplicate vowel. There are no vowel dipthongs in this language.

Latin Transliteration

For simplicity, these are the letters used for Latin transliteration: ⟨/v/⟩ → ⟨v⟩, ⟨/w/⟩ → ⟨w⟩, ⟨/ʃ/⟩ → ⟨s⟩, ⟨/n/⟩ → ⟨n⟩, ⟨/æ/⟩ → ⟨e⟩, ⟨/ä/⟩ → ⟨a⟩, ⟨/u/⟩ → ⟨u⟩.

Vocabulary

See Na'awasa/Vocabulary.