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Ewa
Êwa [ewa]
EwaÊwa [ewa]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ewa
In this fictionous universe, Êwa was spoken by the Awa clan 10,000 years ago. It was a highly synthetic language with up to seven cases : nominative, accusative, dative, instrumental and locative, which could have two meanings on its own - a gesture with no movement (i.e. you stay at a place for a rest) and with movement (you walk to a destination); and vocative (for proper nouns only).
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p [p:]1 [pʰ]2 | b [b:]3 | [t:]4 | d [d:]5 | k [k:]6 | g [g:]7 | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | [f]8 | [v]9 | θ | ð | s [s̺]10 | z [z̺]11 | ʃ | ʒ | [xʶ]12 | χ | ʁ [ʁ̥]13 | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l [lˠ]14 | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Blends | [st̺]15 s͡t | z͡b | θ͡p | ð͡b | s͡p | [v͡b]16 | [f͡p]17 | z͡d |
- Rule about plosive consonants, allophone of /p:/
- Depending on the speaker, allophone of /p/
- Rule about plosive consonants
- This allophone occurs in between a stem ending with a plosive consonant and a declension, allophone of /t:/
- Rule about plosive consonant prior to a declension, allophone of /d:/
- Rule about plosive consonants, allophone of /k:/
- Rule about plosive consonants, allophone of /g:/
- It is an allophone of a phoneme, allophone of /θ/
- It is an allophone of a phoneme, allophone of /ð/
- Depending on the speaker, allophone of /s̺/
- Depending on the speaker, allophone of /z̺/
- allophone of /ʁ̥/
- It can be voiceless when it follows affricates.
- It becomes velarised when it follows front vowels. , allophone of /l/
- allophone of /s͡t/
- allophone of /ð͡b/
- allophone of /θ͡p/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | y | u | |||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ̈ | ɔ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɔ͡ɪ | a͡ɪ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ewa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 EwaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| 'DP 'dp/θ͡p/, [f͡p] | 'D 'd/θ/ | Ââ/a͡ɪ/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/, [b:]1 | Dd/d/, [d:]2 | D'B d'b/ð͡b/, [v͡b] | D' d'/ð/ | Êê/ɛ/ | Ee/e/ |
| Gg/g/, [g:]3 | GH gh/ʒ/ | Íí/ə/ | Îî/ɪ/ | Ii/i/ | Ïï/œ̈/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/, [k:]4 | Ll/l/, [lˠ]5 | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Öö/ø/ | Ôô/o/ | OI oi/ɔ͡ɪ/ | Pp/p/, [pʰ]6, [p:]7 | Rr/ʁ/, /ʁ/, [ʁ̥]8, [xʶ] | Śś/ʃ/ | Ss/s/, [s̺]9 | SP sp/s͡p/ |
| ST st/s͡t/, [st̺] | TŚ tś/t͡ʃ/ | Uu/y/ | Ûû/u/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/χ/ | Zz/z/, [z̺]10 | ZB zb/z͡b/ | ZD zd/z͡d/ | ZH zh/d͡ʒ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- Rule about plosive consonants
- Rule about plosive consonant prior to a declension
- Rule about plosive consonants
- Rule about plosive consonants
- It becomes velarised when it follows front vowels.
- Depending on the speaker
- Rule about plosive consonants
- It can be voiceless when it follows affricates.
- Depending on the speaker
- Depending on the speaker
