Jiwian [JWI]
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[Deactivated User] on 7 October 2022
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Jiwian
Jiwian is my personal language, which I started creating on 4.10. 2022. It isn't naturalistic, but not unnaturalistic either. It tries to express as much information as it can on verbs without using noun incorporation.
Phonology
Consonants | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||
Nasal | n | ɲ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | t tʼ | c cʼ | k kʼ | ʔ | ||||||||||
Fricative | s | ɕ | (ç) | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ | t͡ɕ t͡ɕʼ | (c͡ç) (c͡çʼ) | |||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l l̩ | ʎ | ||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | ʎ̝̊ | ||||||||||||
Approximant | j j̩ | w w̩ | ɥ ɥ̩ | |||||||||||
Trill | r r̩ |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i i:: i: | y y: | ɨ | u u:: u: | ||
Close-mid | e e: | ø̞: ø̞ | ||||
Mid | ə | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ:: ɛ: | ɔ ɔ:: ɔ: | ||||
Open | a a: |
Polyphthongs | ɛu | uʊ | iu | auə | uə | iuə | ɔu | ui | ɔi | au |
uiə | aə | iə |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Jiwian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
JiwianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
a/a/ | c/t͡s/ | c'/t͡sʼ/ | ch/t͡ɕ/ | ch'/t͡ɕʼ/ | e/ɛ/ | ë/ə/ | h/ɬ/ | hj/ʎ̝̊/ |
ï/e/ | i/i/ | j/j/ | k/k/ | k'/kʼ/ | l/l/ | lj/ʎ/ | n/n/ | nj/ɲ/ |
ö/ø̞/ | o/ɔ/ | q/ç/1 | qh/c͡ç/2 | qh'/c͡çʼ/3 | r/r/ | s/s/ | sh/ɕ/ | t/t/ |
t'/tʼ/ | tj/c/ | tj'/cʼ/ | ü/y/ | u/u/ | w/w/ | wj/ɥ/ | x/ʔ/ | y/ɨ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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