Hibathu [RTH]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Hibathu
Its typology is currently under heavy revision, but the phonology and orthography are set in stone, as are the root words currently listed.
Hipaathu features loose word order (tending towards SOV), numerous applicatives, productive noun incorporation, underspecified voicing on consonants, and vowel pronunciation that is heavily affected by stress.
It is spoken by people in the same fictional world as Mezhat, in one of the more mountainous areas. In Mezhat, its name is Hysät.
Hipaathu features loose word order (tending towards SOV), numerous applicatives, productive noun incorporation, underspecified voicing on consonants, and vowel pronunciation that is heavily affected by stress.
It is spoken by people in the same fictional world as Mezhat, in one of the more mountainous areas. In Mezhat, its name is Hysät.
Sample of Hibathu[view] Lushathachaupa, lutainucha. / Lutainuchaupa, lusuulincha. / Lusuulinchaupa, lushathacha.
I don't love you, I hate you / I don't hate you, I like you / I don't like you, I love you[view all texts]
I don't love you, I hate you / I don't hate you, I like you / I don't like you, I love you[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | [b]1 | t | [d]2 | k | [g]3 | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | [v]4 | θ | [ð]5 | s | [z]6 | ʃ | [ʒ]7 | h | |||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | [d͡ʒ]8 | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | [j]9 | [w]10 |
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- intervocalically
- intervocalically
- intervocalically
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /t͡ʃ/
- intervocalically, or before another vowel word-initially
- intervocalically, or before another vowel word-initially
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 [ɪ:]2 | [ʊ]3 [ʊ:]4 | ||||||||
Mid | [ə]5 | |||||||||
Open | a a: |
- unstressed or before /ŋ/, allophone of /i/
- only before /ŋ/, allophone of /i:/
- unstressed or before /ŋ/, allophone of /u/
- only before /ŋ/, allophone of /u:/
- unstressed, allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Hibathu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
HibathuOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/a/, [ə]1 | AA aa/a:/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/, [d͡ʒ] | Ff/f/, [v]2 | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/, [ɪ]3 | II ii/i:/, [ɪ:]4 | Kk/k/, [g]5 | Ll/l/, /ʃ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, /n/ |
NG ng/ŋ/ | NJ nj/ɲ/ | Pp/p/, [b] | Ss/s/, [z] | SH sh[ʒ] | Tt/t/, [d] | TH th/θ/, [ð]6 | Uu/u/, [ʊ]7 | UU uu/u:/, [ʊ:]8 | Ww[w]9 | Yy[j]10 |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- unstressed
- intervocalically
- unstressed or before /ŋ/
- only before /ŋ/
- intervocalically
- intervocalically
- unstressed or before /ŋ/
- only before /ŋ/
- intervocalically, or before another vowel word-initially
- intervocalically, or before another vowel word-initially