Middle Suvoon [MSV]
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Middle Suvoon
Pésovén [pə́sɔ̀və́n]
Middle SuvoonPésovén [pə́sɔ̀və́n]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Middle Suvoon
Most of Suvoon's words can be traced back at least this far.
Notes for borrowings:
Voicing assimilation is still active at this point (it will not stop being in effect for Suvoon until the removal of /ə/), but some exceptions exist for loanwords involving /s/ beside resonants /l n m/, so that a foreign word such as e.g. */ɑsnɑ/ may be borrowed as */asna/ or */azna/.
Words with less syllables are more likely to have voiceless /s/ preserved, just as words with more syllables are more likely to have vowels sporadically reduced to /ə/. (Heavier, stressed-in-source syllables and /ɑ~e/ range sounds are more likely to become schwa than lighter, unstressed-in-source syllables and /o~u/ range sounds -- additionally, a repeated vowel of the /a e i/ type may be reduced for the purpose of dissimilation. This means that e.g. /a'naɣata/ wil very likely be borrowed as /ənáhəta/, while /unaɣa'tu/ may be borrowed as /unəhatú/, /unahətú/, or /unəhətú/).
High accent in loanwords tends to strong correlate with stress, but is not totally consistent, and /unaɣa'tu/ may come in as e.g. /unəhátú/.
Notes for borrowings:
Voicing assimilation is still active at this point (it will not stop being in effect for Suvoon until the removal of /ə/), but some exceptions exist for loanwords involving /s/ beside resonants /l n m/, so that a foreign word such as e.g. */ɑsnɑ/ may be borrowed as */asna/ or */azna/.
Words with less syllables are more likely to have voiceless /s/ preserved, just as words with more syllables are more likely to have vowels sporadically reduced to /ə/. (Heavier, stressed-in-source syllables and /ɑ~e/ range sounds are more likely to become schwa than lighter, unstressed-in-source syllables and /o~u/ range sounds -- additionally, a repeated vowel of the /a e i/ type may be reduced for the purpose of dissimilation. This means that e.g. /a'naɣata/ wil very likely be borrowed as /ənáhəta/, while /unaɣa'tu/ may be borrowed as /unəhatú/, /unahətú/, or /unəhətú/).
High accent in loanwords tends to strong correlate with stress, but is not totally consistent, and /unaɣa'tu/ may come in as e.g. /unəhátú/.
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Language family relationships
Language treeHaspic
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Haspuri
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Proto-Suvo-Poshumic
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Proto-Suvonic
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Middle Suvoon
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Middle SuvoonPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ1 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | v | ð | s | z | ʃ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
- only occurs at the end of a word, as result of disappearing /k/ or allophone of /n/ before /k, g/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: í: í | u u: ú: ú | ||||
| Close-mid | e: é: | o: ó: | ||||
| Mid | ə ə́ | |||||
| Open-mid | ɔ ɔ́ | |||||
| Open | a á | ɒ: ɒ́: | ||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Middle Suvoon. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Middle SuvoonOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Áá/á/ | AA aa/ɒ:/ | ÁÁ áá/ɒ́:/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d̪/ | Éé/ə́/ | Ee/ə/ | EE ee/e:/ |
| ÉÉ éé/é:/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Íí/í/ | ÍÍ íí/í:/ | II ii/i:/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Óó/ɔ́/ | ÓÓ óó/ó:/ | OO oo/o:/ | Pp/p/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t̪/ | Uu/u/ |
| Úú/ú/ | ÚÚ úú/ú:/ | UU uu/u:/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/z/ | Ðð/ð/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/1 | Ʃʃ/ʃ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- only occurs at the end of a word, as result of disappearing /k/ or allophone of /n/ before /k, g/
