Aguinian [CPYU]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersAguinian is spoken by a population of around 104,000 in Yaahun.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Aguinian
A serious-ish attempt at a naturalistic language
Sample of Aguinian[view] Nyu ciddaa, idnce kaw pya eznyuwaw tupica kyun i wiiwii picawut kyun.
Now all the earth continued to be of one language and of one vocabulary. As they travelled eastward, they discovered a valley plain in the land of Shinar, and they began dwelling there. Then they said to one another: "Come! Let us make bricks and bake them with fire." So they used bricks instead of stone, and bitumen as mortar. They now said: "Come! Let us build a city for ourselves and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered over the entire face of the earth." / / Then Yahweh went down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built. Yahweh then said: "Look! They are one people with one language, and this is what they have started to do. Now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be impossible for them. Come! Let us go down there and confuse their language in order that they may not understand one another's language." So Yahweh scattered them from there over the entire face of the earth, and they gradually left off building the city. That is why it was named Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, and Yahweh scattered them from there over the entire face of the earth.[view all texts]
Now all the earth continued to be of one language and of one vocabulary. As they travelled eastward, they discovered a valley plain in the land of Shinar, and they began dwelling there. Then they said to one another: "Come! Let us make bricks and bake them with fire." So they used bricks instead of stone, and bitumen as mortar. They now said: "Come! Let us build a city for ourselves and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered over the entire face of the earth." / / Then Yahweh went down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built. Yahweh then said: "Look! They are one people with one language, and this is what they have started to do. Now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be impossible for them. Come! Let us go down there and confuse their language in order that they may not understand one another's language." So Yahweh scattered them from there over the entire face of the earth, and they gradually left off building the city. That is why it was named Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, and Yahweh scattered them from there over the entire face of the earth.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m mʷ | n nʲ | ŋ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p pʷ pʲ | b | t | d | k kʷ kʲ | g gʷ gʲ | ||||||
| Fricative | s | [z]1 | ʃ | ʒ | ||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡s]2 | [d͡z]3 | ||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||
- <s> middle or end of word, allophone of /s/
- intervocalic <c>, allophone of /ʃ/
- intervocalic <z>, allophone of /ʒ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Close-mid | e | |||||
| Mid | ə1 | |||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
- placed inside consonant clusters
Syllable StructureJust... no "wu" or "yi". Consonant clusters can go wild, since there is always an epenthetic schwa added between weird ones.
Stress informationStress is on the first syllable, unless there is a long vowel, in which case the stress is on the first syllable containing a long vowel.
OtherThe phono information for vowels is the pronunciation when stressed. When unstressed, they are:
a - /ə/
aa - /a/
i - /ɪ/
ii - /i/
u - /o/
uu - /u/
e - /ɛ/
Additionally, there is a group of words whose vowels are always pronounced in its "unstressed" form. These include pronouns (cu, pi, kya), conjunctions (i, u, age), prepositions (tan tawe, asiin), and other small grammar-y words (te, daa, mins). Some of these words have multiple meanings, and only sound like their "unstressed" form as a grammatical word. For example, the word "pya" only sounds like /pʲə/ when used to mark an infinitive verb, not when used to mean "to have".
a - /ə/
aa - /a/
i - /ɪ/
ii - /i/
u - /o/
uu - /u/
e - /ɛ/
Additionally, there is a group of words whose vowels are always pronounced in its "unstressed" form. These include pronouns (cu, pi, kya), conjunctions (i, u, age), prepositions (tan tawe, asiin), and other small grammar-y words (te, daa, mins). Some of these words have multiple meanings, and only sound like their "unstressed" form as a grammatical word. For example, the word "pya" only sounds like /pʲə/ when used to mark an infinitive verb, not when used to mean "to have".
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Aguinian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AguinianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AA aa/a:/ | Cc/ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/ | GW gw/gʷ/ | GY gy/gʲ/ | Hh/ŋ/ | Ii/i/ |
| II ii/i:/ | Kk/k/ | KW kw/kʷ/ | KY ky/kʲ/ | Mm/m/ | MW mw/mʷ/ | Nn/n/ | NY ny/nʲ/ | Pp/p/ | PW pw/pʷ/ |
| PY py/pʲ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/ʒ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
