Backway Speech Of The Northern Inlet [BCKWY]
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Backway Speech Of The Northern Inlet
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Backway Speech Of The Northern Inlet
This language is that which was shared between the first people to travel to the Northern Inlet. It is an analytical language with contor tone that used a simplified version of the original holy dune script. As well as 9 tones, there are distinctions between voiced and voiceless nasal stops and between labialized and non-labialized approximants. The language is head initial and has some fossilized verb-marking for many irregular verbs.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m̥ | m | n̥ | n | ŋ̊ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | (ʁ)1 | h | ||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ ɹʷ | j | w | ɰ | ɥ | |||||||||||||||
- Often unused
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | ɯ | u | ||
| Close-mid | o | |||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||
| Polyphthongs | æo | oæ |
Syllable StructureAlmost all CVTC
Stress information9 Tones:
Plain Tones
˩ ˧ ˥
a̠ a ā
Deep Neutral High
Sliding Tones
˩˨ ˧˨ ˧˦ ˥˦
a̋ à á ȁ
Low-Raising Falling Raising High-Falling
Peaked Tones
˨˩˨ ˦˥˦
ǎ â
Low-Peak High-Peak
Plain Tones
˩ ˧ ˥
a̠ a ā
Deep Neutral High
Sliding Tones
˩˨ ˧˨ ˧˦ ˥˦
a̋ à á ȁ
Low-Raising Falling Raising High-Falling
Peaked Tones
˨˩˨ ˦˥˦
ǎ â
Low-Peak High-Peak
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Backway Speech Of The Northern Inlet. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Backway Speech Of The Northern InletOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/æ/ | AO ao/æo/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ęę/ɛ/ | Ee/ə/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Ğğ/ɣ/ |
| Hh/h/ | Ȋȋ/ɥ/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Mm/m/ | Ṁṁ/m̥/ | Nn/n/ | Ṇṇ/ŋ/ | Ṋṋ/ŋ̊/ |
| Ṅṅ/n̥/ | Ǫǫ/ɔ/ | Oo/o/ | OA oa/oæ/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ɰ/ | Ȓȓ/ɹʷ/ | Rr/ɹ/ | Řř/ʁ/1 | Ss/s/ |
| Šš/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Üü/y/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/ɯ/ | Zz/z/ | Žž/ʒ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- Often unused, loan words only
