Inng
| Inng Inng | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | [iŋː˩] |
| Species: | Human |
| Writing system: | n/a |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Qwynegold |
| Created: | 21/02/2013 |
Phonology
Consonant inventory
The following table shows all the phonemes and their allophones that are found in Inng. All of the phonemes except for /r/ have as an allophone the same sound as what the phoneme is transcribed with. So for example /p/ has the allophone [p]. /r/ however is never realized as [r].
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bilabial | Labiod. | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo-palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plain | Pal. | Plain | Pal. | Central | Lateral | Plain | Lab. | Plain | Lab. | Plain | Lab. | Pal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plain | Lab. | Plain | Lab. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nasal | /m/ [mː] | [mʲ] | /n/ [nː] | [nʷ] | [ɳ] | [n̠ʲ] | [n̠ᶣ] | /ŋ/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Syllabic nasal | [m̩] [m̩ː] | [n̩] [n̩ː] | [ɳ̍ː] | [ŋ̍] [ŋ̍ː] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | /p/ [pʰ] | /b/ | [pʰʲ] | [bʲ] | /t/ [tʰ] | /d/ | [tʰʷ] | [dʷ] | [ṯʰʲ] | [ḏʲ] | [t̠ʰᶣ] | [d̠ᶣ] | /k/ [kʰ] | /ɡ/ | [kʰʲ] | [ɡʲ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Affricate | /t͡s/ [t͡sʰ] | /d͜z/ | [t͡sʰʷ] | [d͜zʷ] | [t͜ɬʰ] | [d͡ɮ] | [t͡ɕʰ] | [d͜ʑ] | [t͡ɕʰᶣ] | [d͜ʑᶣ] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Syllabic affricate | [t͡ɬ̩ʰ] [t͡ɬ̩ːʰ] | [d͜ɮ̍] [d͜ɮ̍ː] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ] | [ɸʲ] | /f/ | [fʲ] | /s/ | [sʷ] | [ɕ] | [ɕᶣ] | [ç] | [çᶣ] | [x] | /h/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | /l/ [lː] | [lʷ] | [ɭ] | [l̠ʲ] | [l̠ᶣ] | [j] | [ɥ] | [ɫ] | [ʍ] | [w] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Syllabic approximant | [l̩] [l̩ː] | [ɭ̍ː] | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rhotic | /r/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The "syllabic affricates" are affricates with a syllabic release. From now on, all the affricates will be transcribed without the tiebar, as there is no ambiguity: Any plosive followed by any fricative in the same word stands for an affricate.
Vowel inventory
Just as with the consonant table above, all of the vowels have the same sound as an allophone as what the phoneme is transcribed with.
| Vowels | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | /i/ [iː] | [ʉː] | /u/ [uː] | |||
| Close-mid | [e] [eː] | [o] [oː] [o˞ː] | ||||
| Mid | /ə/ [əː] [ɚː] | |||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ] [ɛː] | [ɝː] | [ɔ] [ɔː] | |||
| Near-open | [ɐ˞ː] | |||||
| Open | /a/ [aː] | [ä] [äː] | [ɑ] [ɑː] | [ɒ] [ɒː] | ||
Tone inventory
Inng has a pitch accent system, where open syllables may have high or low pitch (which may be realized as [˥] respectively [˩]), or be unaccented. Closed syllables are all unaccented.
| Tones | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /˥/ | [˩˥] | [˩˩˥] | [˥˩˥] | [˥˩] | [˥˩˩] | /˩/ |
Syllable structure
The syllable structure for Inng is (O)N(N)(C), where O can be any consonant except for /ŋ, r/, N can be any vowel or /ŋ, l/, and C can be /m, n, ŋ, p, t, k, ts, l, r/.
