Simptliki
Simptliki Zĩptliki | |
Spoken in: | somewhere in Gon |
Conworld: | Melin |
Total speakers: | ? |
Genealogical classification: | Simptlikian
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Basic word order: | TBD |
Morphological type: | TBD |
Morphosyntactic alignment: | TBD |
Writing system: | |
Created by: | |
Pierre Abbat | 2007-ongoing |
'Simptliki is an indigenous language spoken by the Sintlip people somewhere in the boonies of Gon. It has many consonants, few vowels, a few morphemes (not many of them assigned a meaning), and not much else yet.
Vowels
The vowels are a, i, and u. They can be long or short, or any two can be put together to make a diphthong. Short vowels have three tones, high, mid, and low; long vowels and diphthongs have in addition rising and falling tones. Vowels can be nasal (ãĩũ), constricted (ạịụ), or both. The pronunciation is rather variable; either /a/ or /i/ can sound like [ɛ].
Consonants
Most consonants that precede the vowel come in pairs, one ejective and one not. The ejective is written as if voiceless and the other as if voiced; voicing is nondistinctive.
- p, b, t, d, k, g, s, z, f, v, š, ž, ts, tz
Other consonants don't come in pairs:
- m, n, tl, kl
Any of these consonants can be preceded by f or s. Then the vowel can be followed by any of these six consonants:
- m, n, ŋ, p, t, k
Ejectivity is distinctive only in the consonant immediately preceding a vowel.
The ejective stops appear to descend from Proto-Simptlikian prestopped nasals, and the ejective fricatives were formed by analogy.
Morpheme forms
The morpheme forms are as follows:
- CVCVC, inflecting to CVCCV by metathesis
- tlibit -> tlitbi "one"
- tlaikum. The form tlaimku is rare.
- zitlip -> ziptli
- klandii. The form kladiin is rare.
- Zĩtlip -> Zĩptli (name of this people)
- These morphemes can be strung together: tlaikumzitlip, zitlipklandii.
- CVCVCV where the first two CV are the same
- tlitlima
- -CV
- -ki in zĩptliki
- -kla and -di in zitlũpkladi
- CV-
- Single syllables
- tlit or tlĩ "one", "an"
- bịt
- Other words
- ftuda
- tliniãtla
- zistạ̃ụ̃dii