Herdwate [HDT]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Herdwate
A language spoken mostly in 
Kingdom Of Herdek. It was born in the central part of Herdek as Chaggwate, that then evolved into an ancient variant of modern Herdwatean.
Like the other Methic languages, Herdwatean has a small vowel inventory, but mostly all ejective forms were deleted with Ancient Herdwatean (though, the southernmost dialects still have them).
Kingdom Of Herdek. It was born in the central part of Herdek as Chaggwate, that then evolved into an ancient variant of modern Herdwatean.Like the other Methic languages, Herdwatean has a small vowel inventory, but mostly all ejective forms were deleted with Ancient Herdwatean (though, the southernmost dialects still have them).
Sample of HerdwateCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeMethinakhic
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Proto-Methic
⤷ Continental Methic
⤷ Southern Methic
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Classical Methic
⤷ Rafinwatti
⤷ Chaggwate
⤷ Ancient Herdwate
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Herdwate
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Proto-Methic⤷ Continental Methic
⤷ Southern Methic
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Classical Methic⤷ Rafinwatti
⤷ Chaggwate
⤷ Ancient Herdwate
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Herdwate[view] About MethinakhicThe Methinakhic (sometimes simplified to 'Methic') language family is a family consisting of languages spoken in western Soltenna.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | [ʈ]2 | [ɖ] | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | [ð]3 | s | ʃ | [x]4 | ɣ | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | [d͡z]5 | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | [ɰ]6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]7 | |||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /t͡s/
- when /w/ is followed by /u/, allophone of /w/
- allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | [ʊ]1 | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
- After any other vowel, allophone of /u/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Herdwate. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| HerdwateOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/, [ɖ] | Êê/ɛ/ | Ee/ə/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɣ/ |
| Hh/h/, [x] | Îî/ɪ/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ] | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/, [ɾ] |
| Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/, [ʈ] | TH th/θ/, [ð] | Uu/u/, [ʊ]1 | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/, [ɰ]2 | Yy/j/ | Zz/t͡s/, [d͡z] | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- After any other vowel
- when /w/ is followed by /u/
