Benweenese [BNW]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersBenweenese is spoken in Benween.
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of Benweenese[view] A ann habal, inn hífur dual harie addal tewu ligerie ferdes.
On a hill, a sheep that had no wool saw some horses.[view all texts]
On a hill, a sheep that had no wool saw some horses.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Benweenese
Some sound samples of Benweenese. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
ho, dose, tró, abat, hem, sít, siv, tod, nuv, tiv.
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A ann habal, inn hífur dual harie addal tewu ligerie ferdes.
On a hill, a sheep that had no wool saw some horses.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
On a hill, a sheep that had no wool saw some horses.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Language family relationships
Language treeBengenic
⤷ Indo-European
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Proto-Bengenic
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Old Benweenese
⤷ Early Benweenese
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Benweenese
⤷ Indo-European
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Proto-Bengenic⤷
Old Benweenese⤷ Early Benweenese
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BenweenesePhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m | [ɱ]1 | n | ŋ | [ɴ]2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | [ɖ]3 | k | g | q | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʝ | h | ||||||||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡s]4 | t͡ʃ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [j]5 | w | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | ʀ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ks | ŋk |
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /i/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | y | ɨ | ɯ | u | |||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | [ø]1 | o | |||||
| Mid | [ə]2 | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | ei | ai |
- allophone of /ɔ/
- allophone of /e/
Stress informationIn a word with two or more syllables, the stressed syllable will be the penultimate (back to front). This can change if affixes are added to the original word or it is combined with another. This also varies if the word is a loanword, in which case taking the original language pronunciation.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Benweenese. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| BenweeneseOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa a /a/ | Áá acent-a /ɑ/ | Ææ æ /ɛ/ | Bb be /b/ | Čč če /t͡ʃ/ | Ĉĉ ĉe /q/ | Dd de /d/, /ð/ | Ee e /e/ | Ff fe /f/ | Gg ge /g/ | Hh he /h/ |
| Ii i /i/ | Íí acent-i /ɪ/ | Jj ye /ʝ/ | Kk ke /k/ | Ll le /l/ | Mm me /m/ | Nn ne /n/ | Oo o /o/ | Óó acent-o /ɔ/, [ø] | Pp/p/, /p/ | Rr re /ɾ/, /ʀ/ |
| Ss se /s/ | Šš še /ʃ/ | Tt te /t/ | Uu u /u/ | Úú acent-u /ɯ/ | Vv ve /v/ | Ww we /w/ | Xx/ks/ | Yy y /ɨ/ | Zz ze /z/ | Cc[t͡s] |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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