Kiswona

Kiswóna
Pronounced:	[kizwo˦na]
Species:	Ondasi
Typology
Morphological type:	Agglutinating
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Fluid-S
Basic word order:	SOV
Credits
Creator:	User:Babelfish

About

Kiswona is the lingua franca and literary/liturgical language of the Ondasi nation.

Phonology

Phoneme Inventory

Consonants

Consonants
	Bilabial		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal						n /n/
Plosive					t /t/	d /d/					k /k/	g /g/	q /ʔ/
Fricative					s /s/		ŝ /ʃ/		ŷ /ç/		h /x/
Affricate			ts /ts/		c /t͡ʃ/
Approximants		ŵ /ʍ/ w /w/								y /j/
Lateral Fricative					tl /ɬ/
Lateral Approximant						l /l/

Vowels

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
High	i									u
Near-high
High-mid			e							o
Mid
Low-mid
Near-low
Low					a

There is a phonemic distinction between short and long vowels, long vowels are indicated in the orthography by doubling.

Phonotactics

Syllables in Kiswóna have the shape (C)(C)V(n/l). Coda l is very rare and tends to be subject to subject to sound changes if the following syllable has an onset. All consonants can be geminate in medial position.

Legal onsets
Initial	Medial	Initial	Medial	Initial	Medial	Initial	Medial	Initial	Medial	Initial	Medial
nd	nd	tŵ	tŵ	dw	dw	ks	ks	gw	gw	sŵ	sŵ
nk	nk	tŷ	tŷ	dy	dy	kŷ	kŷ	gy	gy
ng	ng					kŵ	kŵ	gl	gl
	nq					kl	kl
	ns
	nŝ
	nŷ
	nh
	nts
	nc
	ns
nw	nw
ny	ny
nl	nl

Hiatus is restricted, a glottal stop is inserted wherever it would occur due to morphological processes.

Stress

Kiswóna has lexical pitch accent indicated by an acute accent on vowels, realized as a raised pitch.