Onuwai [ONW]
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[Deactivated User] on 1 August 2016
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Onuwai
A very WIP general purpose personal language of mine. Therefore kinda boring. But it's ergative-absolutive, that counts I guess.
Sample of Onuwai[view] Leil, xutur e xir tem, oigina van hoki omi. Leilauwera zuxi wegi fege, ninauwera mo memdel balo, bo vanauwera ihu balo waimal. Oigina hokini vanower nomi: "Tama sirinde ihuna hoki adairi mur." Hokina wa nomi: "Oigini ari siede, tama sume sirinde vanower ori mur: Edera ihuna bali xiu tetoni gahani oigi xutur aze. Bo oigina xutur e xir...[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
Plosive | [p]1 pʰ | b | [t]2 tʰ | d | [k]3 kʰ | g | ||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | x | ɣ | [h]4 | ɦ | ||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | [j]5 | w | ||||||||||||
Trill | [r]6 | |||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Blends | jä | jɛ | jo̞ | ju |
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /ɦ/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /ɾ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i | u | ||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | |||||||
Mid | o̞ | |||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ||||||
Open | ä |
Polyphthongs | ɛu | äo̞ | ɛi | äɪ | äu | o̞ɪ |
- allophone of /i/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Onuwai. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
OnuwaiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa/ä/ | Bb/b/, [p] | Cc/ɣ/ | Dd/d/, [t] | Ee/ɛ/ | EO eo/œ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/, [k] | Hh/ɦ/, [h] | Ii/i/, [j], [ɪ] | Kk/kʰ/ | Ll/l/ |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/pʰ/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/tʰ/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Zz/z/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |