Proto-Yushri [PYSH]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of Proto-Yushri[view] Ka'ono'ixa'ama a potayéto'iqanijos!
We want to see the holy potato![view all texts]
We want to see the holy potato![view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeYushri
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Proto-Yushri
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Proto-YushriPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | d | k | g | q | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | [z]1 | h | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | d͡ʒ | k͡x | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
- /s/ becomes /z/ if it is the last consonant in a word, allophone of /s/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i [i:] | u [u:]1 | ||||
| Close-mid | e [e:]2 | o [o:]3 | ||||
| Mid | ə4 | |||||
| Open | a [a:] | |||||
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
- non-phoneme uttered between consonants, may be omitted
Syllable Structure(C)V or (ʔ)V(ʔ) for beginning and middle syllables
CV(C) or (?)V for ending syllables
CV(C) or (?)V for ending syllables
Stress informationPrimary stress is always on first syllable, unless the second or (rarely) third syllable has a long vowel in its nucleus. Primary stress may also occur in the last syllable of a chain of vowels linked by glottal stops. Take the word "ma'ápu" (learn). Stress is placed on the last "a", which happens to be a long vowel.
OtherThis language:
- is polysynthetic
- has a lack of articles
- is heavily head-final
- has a fixed system for when affixes have bordering vowels. When this happens, add a glottal stop.
- contains affixes that when put together create a unique meaning
- is polysynthetic
- has a lack of articles
- is heavily head-final
- has a fixed system for when affixes have bordering vowels. When this happens, add a glottal stop.
- contains affixes that when put together create a unique meaning
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Proto-Yushri. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Proto-YushriOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa an /a/ | Gg gna /g/ | Dd dva /d/ | Ee ewa /e/ | Ff ftla /f/ | Vv vtla /v/ | Hh hla /h/ | Ii iwa /i/ | Kk kga /k/ | Xx xowa /k͡x/ |
| Ll lhta /l/ | Mm mva /m/ | Nn nrta /n/ | Ńń ńra /ŋ/ | Oo owa /o/ | Pp pu /p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss syla /s/, [z]1 | Tt tgta /t/ | Uu uwa /u/ |
| Jj ja /d͡ʒ/ | Ww wli /w/ | Yy ywi /j/ | ' a'a /ʔ/ | Áá[a:] | Éé[e:] | Íí[i:] | Óó[o:] | Úú[u:] | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- /s/ becomes /z/ if it is the last consonant in a word
Additional NotesIf no vowel is written between two consonants, it usually means there is a schwa there. Schwas are not written. Two consonants bordering each other on different syllables are rare.
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Proto-Yushri syntax
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