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Valistwe
Bvalistvi [b̪alistᶹi]
ValistweBvalistvi [b̪alistᶹi]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | [ɱ]1 | n | (ɲ)2 | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | p̪3 | b̪4 | t [tʷ]5 | d [dʷ]6 | c7 | ɟ8 | k | g gʷ9 | ʔ | |
| Fricative | f10 fˡ11 | v vˡ12 | s | z | ç13 | ʝ | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ14 | [j]15 | ||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||
| Flap | [ⱱ]16 | |||||||||||
| Blends | tf | vd17 | dv18 | (r̥͡f)19 | r͡v |
- free variation with intervocal /b̪/; allophone of nasals before /b̪/
- marginal phoneme; often simply /nj/
- pv / pi
- bv / bi
- intervocally/after s/ç; more accurately labiodental coarticulation: /tᶹ/, allophone of /tf/
- after n/v; more accurately labiodental coarticulation: /dᶹ/, allophone of /dv/
- ki / ti
- di / gi
- more accurately labiodental coarticulation: /gᶹ/
- phonemic; also /u/ after a vowel word-finally or before a voiceless consonant
- historically /fl/ and /Vus/
- historically /luV/, /loV/; distinct from /vl/
- traditionally hu/ho; si
- becomes /v/ or /f/ before consonants
- beside a non-reduced vowel, allophone of /i/
- allophone of /b̪/
- historically /noV/ and /nuV/
- usually actually [dv]
- rare
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i1 | y2 | u3 | |
| Close-mid | e | ø | o4 | |
| Open | a | |||
- may become an iotifier
- /u/ after alveolars and historic /i/
- may become v-ified or fortified
- may become v-ified
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Valistwe. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ValistweOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | BV bv/b̪/1, [ⱱ] | Dd/d/ | DV dv/dv/2, [dʷ]3 | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/4 | FL fl/fˡ/5 | Gg/g/ | GI gi/ɟ/6 |
| GV gv/gʷ/7 | Hh/ç/8 | Ii/i/9, [j]10 | Kk/k/ | KI ki/c/11 | KV kv/ʔ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NI ni/ɲ/12 |
| Oo/o/13 | Pp/p/ | PV pv/p̪/14 | Rr/r/ | RF rf/r̥͡f/15 | RV rv/r͡v/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TV tv/tf/, [tʷ]16 | Uu/ø/ |
| Vv/ʋ/17 | VD vd/vd/18 | VL vl/vˡ/19 | VZ vz/v/ | Ww/u/20 | Yy/y/21 | Zz/z/ | ZI zi/ʝ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- bv / bi
- usually actually [dv]
- after n/v; more accurately labiodental coarticulation: /dᶹ/
- phonemic; also /u/ after a vowel word-finally or before a voiceless consonant
- historically /fl/ and /Vus/
- di / gi
- more accurately labiodental coarticulation: /gᶹ/
- traditionally hu/ho; si
- may become an iotifier
- beside a non-reduced vowel
- ki / ti
- marginal phoneme; often simply /nj/, loan words only
- may become v-ified
- pv / pi
- rare, loan words only
- intervocally/after s/ç; more accurately labiodental coarticulation: /tᶹ/
- becomes /v/ or /f/ before consonants
- historically /noV/ and /nuV/
- historically /luV/, /loV/; distinct from /vl/
- may become v-ified or fortified
- /u/ after alveolars and historic /i/
