Dwekoenish

Dwekoenish (native: Dvekönešč /dvɛˈkʰœnɛʃʧ/) is a fictional diachronic language created by Marko Stanković, aka Stelvojoj.

Dwekoenish Dvekönešč
Spoken in:	Dwekoenia (Dveköneas)
Conworld:	Alternate Earth
Total speakers:	Unknown
Genealogical classification:	Arvaši Hovalic Northwestern Hovalic Dwekoenish
Basic word order:	VSO
Morphological type:	inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	nominative-accusative
Writing system:
Created by:
Stelvojoj	2008 AD

Phonology

Dwekoennish has a relatively Indo-Europeanesque inventory of consonants and vowels. Of special note are the abundance of coronal fricatives, affricates, and the presence of two fully fronted, fully low vowels.

Consonants

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m						n				(ɲ)		(ŋ)
Plosive	p	b					t	d					k	g
Tap, Flap								ɾ
Fricative			f	v	θ	ð	s	z	ʃ	ʒ	(c)		(x)		h
Affricate							ts	dz	tʃ	dʒ
Approximant								ɹ				j
Lateral Approximant								l

Short Vowels

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
High	i				ʉ
Near-high		ɪ
High-mid										ɤ
Mid					ə
Low-mid			ɛ œ
Near-low
Low				a ɶ					ɒ

Long Vowels

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
High	iː									uː
Near-high
High-mid		eː øː								ɤː oː
Mid
Low-mid					ɜː
Near-low
Low				aː ɶː

Orthography

Dwekoenish is written with a variant of the Latin alphabet which contains 31 letters. It consists of 9 vowels and 22 consonants.

A a - /a/

B b - /b/

C c - /ʦ/

Č č - /ʧ/

D d - /d/

Ð ð - /ð/

E e - /ɛ/

F f - /f/

G g - /g/

H h - /h, x, ç/

I i - /i/

J j - /j/

K k - /k/

L l - /l/

M m - /m/

N n - /n, ŋ, ɲ/

O o - /ɒ/

Õ õ - /ɤ, ɤː/

P p - /p/

R r - /ɾ, ɹ/

S s - /s/

Š š - /ʃ/

T t - /t/

Þ þ - /θ/

U u - /ʉ/

V v - /v/

Y y - /ɪ/

Z z - /z/

Ž ž - /ʒ/

Ö ö - /œ, øː/

Ȍ ȍ - /ɶ, ɶː/

Non-alphabetic letters:

Á á - /aː/

É é - /eː/

Í í - /iː/

Ó ó - /oː/

Ú ú - /uː/

È è - /ə, ɜː/

The vowels marked with acutes represent the long variants of the respective short vowels. The letter È represents a mid-open central unrounded vowel when long and is reduced to a schwa when short. (It is never marked for length.) Long vowels can occur in both stressed and unstressed syllables.

The letters Õ, Ö, and Ő are also not marked for length. Õ and Ő typically do not change in phonemic value when lengthened, but Ö rises from a mid-open to a mid-close vowel. Y has no long variant.

Grammar

Nouns

Dwekoenish is a highly inflected language with agglutinative characteristics. Nouns and adjectives are defined for three numbers and sixteen cases. Patterns of declension are grouped into three genders.

The first declension pattern applies to masculine nouns whose nominative forms end in -è or any non-sibilant consonant.

Könè, king

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	könè	köneas	kȍnás
Genitive	könu	köne	könem
Dative	kön	könedast	kȍnadast
Benefactive	köné	könea	könia
Accusative	könu	köneai	köniaš
Locative	könest	könist	kȍnast
Illative	könesten	könisten	kȍnasten
Inessive	könestí	könistí	kȍnastí
Elative	könestom	könistom	kȍnastom
Allative	könesté	könisté	kȍnasté
Adessive	könestje	könistje	kȍnastje
Ablative	könestod	könistoðy	kȍnastoða
Terminative	könestá	könistá	kȍnastá
Prolative	könestav	könistav	kȍnastav
Abessive	könedz	könidz	kȍnadz
Comitative	kȍnat	köneat	köniat

Note that the letter -ö- is assimilated to -ȍ- when it is proceeded by -a- or -à- (but not -ia-) in the following syllable.