Walyavalywa [WLYW]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
Quaxin XunMinority
Quaxin XunMinoritySpecies
Human/humanoid
About Walyavalywa
A child of 
WWM, spoken in the islands of Quaxin Xun.
Phoneme inventory shamelessly ripped from Paiwan.
Ortho inspired by Fijian and Drehu.
Highlights include:
- 10 noun classes with highly irregular marking and pluralization (but quite regular prefixal case marking)
- irregular stems for imperatives & hortatives
- pitch accent shenanigans
- weird chain semshifts
- a monomorphemic word for "speak
Hlung" that isn't derived from "Hlung"
- buffalo milk cheese
- ｐａｌｍ ｗｉｎｅ
WWM, spoken in the islands of Quaxin Xun.Phoneme inventory shamelessly ripped from Paiwan.
Ortho inspired by Fijian and Drehu.
Highlights include:
- 10 noun classes with highly irregular marking and pluralization (but quite regular prefixal case marking)
- irregular stems for imperatives & hortatives
- pitch accent shenanigans
- weird chain semshifts
- a monomorphemic word for "speak
Hlung" that isn't derived from "Hlung"- buffalo milk cheese
- ｐａｌｍ ｗｉｎｅ
Sample of Walyavalywa[view] Aʼàtay bama yarúma yaŋádra yaʼáya bàna wajay ľi rà.
Maybe it was her father's sister's husband's wife's aunt or something.[view all texts]
Maybe it was her father's sister's husband's wife's aunt or something.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeNgerupic
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Wa Ñi
⤷ WWM
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Walyavalywa
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Wa Ñi⤷
WWM⤷
Walyavalywa[view] About NgerupicWith over one hundred languages and approximately 500 million speakers in total, the Ngerupic languages comprise one of the largest language families on Sahar, spoken predominantly in Akulanen, Soltenna, and the Terminian Dominion. Countries with Nge...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | ɖ | c | ɟ | k | g | q | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | v | |||||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ʎ | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral flap | ɺ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i î ǐ | u û ǔ | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | ä ä̂ ä̌ | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Walyavalywa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| WalyavalywaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Áá/ä̌/ | Aa/ä/ | Àà/ä̂/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/c/ | Dd/d/ | DR dr/ɖ/ | Ee/ə/ | Gg/g/ | Ìì/î/ | Íí/ǐ/ |
| Ii/i/ | Jj/ɟ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/ɺ/ | Ľľ/ʎ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/q/ | Rr/r/ | Tt/t/ |
| Úú/ǔ/ | Ùù/û/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/t͡s/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | ʼ/ʔ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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