Wa Ñi [WAN]
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+ shared with: Ngerupic
+ shared with: Ngerupic
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
Quaxin XunOfficial
Quaxin XunOfficialSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Wa Ñi
Wa Ñi is an a priori spoken in a tropical climate.
It has a complex tone system with just two tones and a smol sound system with tons of sonorants.
Wa Ñi verbs conjugate only for mood, which is accomplished through tone changes.
There are three noun class systems: a Niger-Congo-style system with 10 classes, an alienable/inalienable possession distinction, and an animacy/classifier distinction in the quantifiers.
Wa Ñi is also split-ergative in its pronouns.
Overall, it's a fun isolating language thatmight become a protolang at some point is a protolang.
It has a complex tone system with just two tones and a smol sound system with tons of sonorants.
Wa Ñi verbs conjugate only for mood, which is accomplished through tone changes.
There are three noun class systems: a Niger-Congo-style system with 10 classes, an alienable/inalienable possession distinction, and an animacy/classifier distinction in the quantifiers.
Wa Ñi is also split-ergative in its pronouns.
Overall, it's a fun isolating language that
Sample of Wa Ñi[view] Hè dap ru oxyòni doy kruŋni wè.
A woman washes cassava in the river.[view all texts]
A woman washes cassava in the river.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Wa Ñi
Some sound samples of Wa Ñi. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Hè xòcid tì wa mwì řor řor, a xòcìdi tì hàwa hàrà.
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | ɖ | k | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | ð | h | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ɭ | [ɫ]1 | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ | j | w | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
- in free variation, allophone of /ɭ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i ì | u ù | ||||
| Close-mid | [e]1 | [o]2 | ||||
| Mid | ə ə̀ | |||||
| Open | a à | ɑ̃ ɑ̃̀ | ||||
- next to /j/ or /ɲ/, allophone of /ə/
- next to /w/, allophone of /ə/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Wa Ñi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Wa ÑiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Àà/à/ | Aa/a/ | Cc/ð/ | Dd/ɖ/ | Ee/ə/, [e]1, [o]2 | Èè/ə̀/ | Hh/h/ | Ìì/ì/ | Ii/i/ |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Ľľ/ɭ/, [ɫ]3 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ññ/ɲ/ | Òò/ɑ̃̀/ | Oo/ɑ̃/ | Pp/p/ |
| Řř/ɻ/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Tt/t/ | Ùù/ù/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ʔ/ | Yy/j/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- next to /j/ or /ɲ/
- next to /w/
- in free variation
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