Low Baut [LWB]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersLow Baut is spoken by a population of 589 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Low Baut
Originally a dialect of Old Low Baut, Low Baut diverged in both phonology and grammar; the re-arise in a gender system, the loss of the copula, the progressing change from agglutinative to fusional, and so much more.
Sample of Low Baut[view] Vűgik 1: «¿Päná tedá?» / Vűgik 2: «Vúarígar miná, päná adimónur?» / Vűgik 1: «¿Päná kídarar isón? Kídarídar min.» / Vűgik 2: «Kü, tsümít édarar áşerár miná.» / Vűgik 3: «¡Mágadag! Isón kídarar miná.»[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeBautan
⤷ Proto Baut
⤷ Proto Low-Baut
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Old Low Baut
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Low Baut
⤷ Proto Baut
⤷ Proto Low-Baut
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Old Low Baut⤷
Low Baut[view] About BautanSpoken in the south-west of Greenland.
[edit] [view] Kan Pouvk (Northern Low Baut)Diverged from the Northern dialect of the Old Low Baut language. Its closest relative is the Western dialect, sharing a significant portion of vocabulary, grammatical features, and most phonological processes. In terms of proximity, the Central (Standard) dialect is also a divergence of the Old Northern dialect, and the other two (Southern and South-Eastern) diverged from the Old Southern dialect. NLB notably features word-final retroflexion which is absent in all other dialects.
[edit] [view] Taleiseikh Pouğvus (Western Low Baut)Diverged from the Northern dialect of the Old Low Baut language. Its closest relative is the Northern dialect, sharing a significant portion of vocabulary, grammatical features, and most phonological processes. In terms of proximity, the Central (Standard) dialect is also a divergence of the Old Northern dialect, and the other two (Southern and South-Eastern) diverged from the Old Southern dialect. WLB also features word-final non-rhoticity which is not present in all the other dialects.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ɲ]1 ɲ: | [ŋ]2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | ʈ | c: | ɟ: | k | g | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | [β]3 | f f: | v v: | [ð̠]4 | s | ʃ | [ʂ]5 | [ʐ]6 | ɕ: | ç: | [ʝ:]7 | [ɣ]8 | h̪͆: | ɦ̪͆: | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | ʈ͡ʂ | ɖ͡ʐ | t͡ɕ t͡ɕ: | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ɭ:9 | ʎ: | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | [ɥ:]10 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | ɽ: | ||||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /ɾ/
- allophone of /ɾ/
- allophone of /ɟ:/
- allophone of /g/
- /ɽː/ is pronounced as /ɭː/ in unstressed syllables
- allophone of /v:/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: | y y: | ɨ1 ɨ:2 | u u: | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ ɪ: | |||||||
| Close-mid | ø̞:3 ø̞4 | o o: | ||||||
| Mid | ə ə: | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ̝: ɛ̝ | |||||||
| Near-open | æ5 æ:6 | ɐ ɐ: | ||||||
| Open | ä ä: | ɑ ɑ: | ||||||
- some speakers pronounce /ı/ as /ɨ/
- some speakers pronounce /ı:/ as /ɨ:/
- some speakers pronounce /əː/ as /ø̞ː/
- some speakers pronounce /ə/ as /ø̞/
- some speakers pronounce /ɐ/ as /æ/
- some speakers pronounce /ɐː/ as /æː/
Syllable StructureCrvjVC
Stress informationFalls unto the penultimate syllable, unless marked with an acute or double acute diacritic.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Low Baut. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Low BautOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/ä/ | Ää/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ̝/ | Ëë/ə/, /ø̞/1 | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | İi/i/ |
| Iı/ɪ/, /ɨ/2 | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Öö/ɐ/, /æ/3 | Pp/p/ |
| Rr/ɾ/, [ʂ], [ʐ] | Ss/s/ | Şş/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Ṭṭ/ʈ/ | Uu/u/ | Üü/y/ | Vv/v/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
- some speakers pronounce /ə/ as /ø̞/
- some speakers pronounce /ı/ as /ɨ/
- some speakers pronounce /ɐ/ as /æ/
