Hypu [ATM]
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Hypu
Hypu [χɨp̪u]*
Hypu [χɨp̪u]*
Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 1 April 2016
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Hypu
An accusative language with a small phonemic inventory, a strict (C)V syllable system, and (mostly) penultimate stress.
Other notable features:
-No genders
-Nominative pronouns are implied in conjugated verbs (dy = "I am"), so accusative is essentially the "base case", and nominatives for predicates are the accusatives prefixed by "hy"
Other notable features:
-No genders
-Nominative pronouns are implied in conjugated verbs (dy = "I am"), so accusative is essentially the "base case", and nominatives for predicates are the accusatives prefixed by "hy"
Sound samples in Hypu
Some sound samples of Hypu. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Latudyy gaza!
I love you!
I love you!
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
Plosive | b | p̪ | d̪ | g | ʔ | |||||||||||||
Fricative | z | ʃ | χ | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | ʎ | |||||||||||||||||
Trill | ʀ | |||||||||||||||||
Implosive | [ɠ]1 |
- allophone of /g/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i i: | [ɨ]1 ɨ: | u u: | |||||
Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | |||||||
Near-open | æ | |||||||
Open | [a]2 a: |
- allophone of /ɪ/
- allophone of /æ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Hypu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
HypuOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa/æ/ | AA aa/a:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EE ee/ɛ:/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/χ/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ |
Ll/ʎ/ | Pp/p̪/ | Rr/ʀ/ | Ss/ʃ/ | Tt/ʔ/ | Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ | Yy/ɪ/ | YY yy/ɨ:/ | Zz/z/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |