Yawó [KYO]
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Language type
A priori
Kaiyyo
Teru
ThuyoSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Yawó
ya=
3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee:sacred= w-
CLClassifier
quantifies and/or replaces nouns:human- ó
speak.language
(It is) the people's language.
Yawó is spoken in the nation of Kaiyyo, on the planet Sahar.
Around 4,500 BCE, Lahiri-speaking pastoralists migrated across the Sañu Strait from Puzimm. Archaeological and genetic evidence suggests that humans first inhabited the area that would become Kaiyyo around 36,000 to 39,000 years ago. These humans were descendants of the first waves of human migration out of Puzimm. These first inhabitants were likely nomadic hunter-gatherer groups, however little is known of the cultural or linguistic identity as they were replaced by later migrations.
Modern day Kaiyyo is an ex-Neviran colony. The first recorded landfall of Neviran sailors on the land that would later become Kaiyyo occurred in 1668, near the beginning of the Saruan empire's colonisation of Lahan. The indigenous population, including the population of speakers of Yawó declined for more than 200 years following the establishment of the first colonies in Kaiyyo, at first primarily due to infectious disease and later in frontier conflicts with the settlers. In 1713, government policy was introduced targeting indigenous groups. This resulted in the removal of indigenous children from their families and communities so as to disconnect them from their culture and help to assimilate them into Neviran culture. This policy remained well into the 19th century and over its course more than 100,000 indigenous children were placed into state-operated boarding schools.
In the modern day, Yawó is in decline. Intergenerational transmission continues in some areas, however has been severely disrupted by Neviran language policies which have placed a stigma on the use of Yawó among older native speakers. Internal migration of younger individuals and families towards urban areas has lead to the shift in Yawó language communities away from use of Yawó and toward adoption of the dominant Neviran language varieties. Most modern ethnically Yawó children in urban areas can, at most, understand a little of the language.
Fun features
De ràrdi de hioe làràpè li làrtí ha si dàya.
The giants sons' went out to look for trees for making into canoes.
3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee:sacred= w-
CLClassifier
quantifies and/or replaces nouns:human- ó
speak.language
(It is) the people's language.
Yawó is spoken in the nation of Kaiyyo, on the planet Sahar.
Around 4,500 BCE, Lahiri-speaking pastoralists migrated across the Sañu Strait from Puzimm. Archaeological and genetic evidence suggests that humans first inhabited the area that would become Kaiyyo around 36,000 to 39,000 years ago. These humans were descendants of the first waves of human migration out of Puzimm. These first inhabitants were likely nomadic hunter-gatherer groups, however little is known of the cultural or linguistic identity as they were replaced by later migrations.
Modern day Kaiyyo is an ex-Neviran colony. The first recorded landfall of Neviran sailors on the land that would later become Kaiyyo occurred in 1668, near the beginning of the Saruan empire's colonisation of Lahan. The indigenous population, including the population of speakers of Yawó declined for more than 200 years following the establishment of the first colonies in Kaiyyo, at first primarily due to infectious disease and later in frontier conflicts with the settlers. In 1713, government policy was introduced targeting indigenous groups. This resulted in the removal of indigenous children from their families and communities so as to disconnect them from their culture and help to assimilate them into Neviran culture. This policy remained well into the 19th century and over its course more than 100,000 indigenous children were placed into state-operated boarding schools.
In the modern day, Yawó is in decline. Intergenerational transmission continues in some areas, however has been severely disrupted by Neviran language policies which have placed a stigma on the use of Yawó among older native speakers. Internal migration of younger individuals and families towards urban areas has lead to the shift in Yawó language communities away from use of Yawó and toward adoption of the dominant Neviran language varieties. Most modern ethnically Yawó children in urban areas can, at most, understand a little of the language.
Fun features
- Dental vs. retracted alveolar contrast
- Tone system where tone melodies are assigned to pairs of morae from a closed set of possible melodies.
- Salish-style predication, where nouns and verbs are partially merged into a "predicate" class, taking much of the same morphology and filling the same syntactic positions.
See the example in the next bullet, where the word pè "knife" (surfacing as òe due to lenition of its initial consonant) acts as a predicate meaning "to cut into," or the example below, where all nominals obligatorily take subject agreement proclitics. - Multiple agreement methods with both subject and object for basic transitive verbs. Read more about it here.
de sàràsìòe
de=
3PThird person plural (person)
neither speaker nor addressee, they/them:human= s-
3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee:construct- à-
PLPlural (number)
more than one/few- r-
3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee:human- à-
PLPlural (number)
more than one/few- sì-
NEGNegative (polarity)
not.PSTPast (tense)
action occurred before moment of speech- òe
knife
They (human; PL) were not cutting into it (constructed) - Differential object marking
- A bunch of noun classes
- Obligatorily possessed nouns
De ràrdi de hioe làràpè li làrtí ha si dàya.
The giants sons' went out to look for trees for making into canoes.
de=r-à-rdi
3PThird person plural (person)
neither speaker nor addressee, they/them:human=3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee:human-PLPlural (number)
more than one/few-son de=hioe
3PThird person plural (person)
neither speaker nor addressee, they/them:human=travel.away l-à-r-à-pè
3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee:large.animal-PLPlural (number)
more than one/few-3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee:plant-PLPlural (number)
more than one/few-search.for li=l-à-rtí
3PThird person plural (person)
neither speaker nor addressee, they/them:plant=3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee:large.animal-tree.for.making.canoe.PLPlural (number)
more than one/few ha
to si=d-à-ya
3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee:large.animal-PLPlural (number)
more than one/few-giant
Sample of Yawó[view] Nge wìgyo nge ràlilaya sì hà ge pí je nge.
The man built the house from wood.[view all texts]
The man built the house from wood.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeLahiri
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Proto-Lahiri
⤷ Insular Lahiri
⤷ Proto-East-Insular
⤷ Various
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Yawó
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Proto-Lahiri⤷ Insular Lahiri
⤷ Proto-East-Insular
⤷ Various
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Yawó[view] About LahiriSpoken on Lahan, on Sahar.
diachronics worksheet
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | n̠ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | ᵐb | t̪ | ⁿd̪ | t̠ | ⁿd̠ | k | ᵑg | ||||||||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||||||||||||
| Affricate | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ɰ | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ʉ | ||||
| Close-mid | ø | o | ||||
| Mid | e̞ | |||||
| Open-mid | ɔ | |||||
| Near-open | ɐ | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Yawó. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| YawóOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| a/ɐ/ | au/ɔ/ | b/ᵐb/ | d/ⁿd̪/ | e/e̞/ | g/ᵑg/ | gy/ɰ/ | h/h/ | i/i/ |
| j/d͡ʒ/ | k/k/ | l/l/ | m/m/ | n/n̪/ | ng/ŋ/ | o/o/ | oe/ø/ | p/p/ |
| r/ɾ/ | rd/ⁿd̠/ | rn/n̠/ | rt/t̠/ | s/s/ | t/t̪/ | u/ʉ/ | w/w/ | y/j/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
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