Inuesa [INU]
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Inuesa
Inués'a / Es'áes'á [inuéʃa | eʃáeʃá]
Inués'a / Es'áes'á [inuéʃa | eʃáeʃá]
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[Deactivated User] on 10 April 2018
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Inuesa
I wanted to make a more conventionally West African phonology than Wa Ñi
HH > HM, some adjectives like inu 'real' have floating high tones afterwards
'real' reduplication
HH > HM, some adjectives like inu 'real' have floating high tones afterwards
'real' reduplication
Sample of InuesaCan't find any yet.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||
Plosive | b [ᵐb]2 | t | d ⁿd | k | g ᵑg | |||||||||
Fricative | f | s | z | ʃ | ||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ ⁿd͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | ɹ ɹ̥ | j | w |
Blends | gb | wa |
- before wa, allophone of /ɲ/
- in free variation after nasal vowel or initially, allophone of /b/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i ĩ | u ũ | ||
Close-mid | e | o | ||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ | ||
Open | a ã |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Inuesa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
InuesaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa/a/ | AN an/ã/ | Bb/b/, [ᵐb]1 | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/ⁿd/ | D' d'/ⁿd͡ʒ/ | DH dh/d/ | Ẹẹ/ɛ/ | Ee/e/ |
EN en/ɛ̃/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/ᵑg/ | GB gb/gb/ | GH gh/g/ | Ii/i/ | IN in/ĩ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ |
Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | N' n'/ɲ/, [ŋ]2 | Oo/o/ | Ọọ/ɔ/ | ON on/ɔ̃/ | Rr/ɹ/ | RH rh/ɹ̥/ |
Ss/s/ | S' s'/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | UN un/ũ/ | Ww/w/ | WA wa/wa/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- in free variation after nasal vowel or initially
- before wa