Sekwempo [CWL]
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Sekwempo
sḗkwempo [se:kʷɘmpo]
Sekwemposḗkwempo [se:kʷɘmpo]
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[Deactivated User] on 26 May 2018
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sekwempo
A proto-language for an in-progress conworld. Pretty obviously initially inspired by Proto-Indo-European, particularly in phonology and nominal morphology, but quite different in syntax.
Primary features include:
* nominative-accusative alignment
* strongly head-initial, with no set word order
* various noun and verb roots centered around vowels
* animate/inanimate distinctions, with no grammatical gender
* various classes of verbs, including stative, repetitive, and continual
* inflection for numerous forms of possession
* lots of reduplication!
Primary features include:
* nominative-accusative alignment
* strongly head-initial, with no set word order
* various noun and verb roots centered around vowels
* animate/inanimate distinctions, with no grammatical gender
* various classes of verbs, including stative, repetitive, and continual
* inflection for numerous forms of possession
* lots of reduplication!
Sample of Sekwempo[view] Srotsxwebh xwn̥bheq lḗrhqerhb gwáh shéhnxoseq gwhḗrlehxe, xwōqyrhrh qotsrh mr̥xklenskke hḗqrh, gwānnylmegwhrh dhūllenskke hḗqrh, tsḗlhtemrhe br̥gwhyhgwh xátstxoske hḗqrh etsōs xyqryqȳl. Xwn̥bheq gwhōrlhōx hl̥hl̥bhgwhyt: "Hélrhakke lédgehddé kwéhsh, xaqāgwbéls tsḗlhtemrhe sḗhe gwhḗrlehxe pōlhtȳ xáxátstgwhyt." Gwhḗrlehbhe hl̥hl̥bhdhyrhm: &q...[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m m̩ | n n̩ | [ŋ]1 [ŋʷ]2 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b bʰ | t | d dʰ | k kʷ | g gʷ gʰʷ | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | z | ʂ | χ χʷ | ħ | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l l̩ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ ɻ̩ | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]3 | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɨ ɨ: | u u: | |||
| Close-mid | e e: | ɘ | o o: | |||
| Open | a a: | ɒ | ||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sekwempo. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SekwempoOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Āā/a:/ | Áá/ɒ/ | Bb/b/ | BH bh/bʰ/ | Dd/d/ | DH dh/dʰ/ | Ḗḗ/e:/ | Éé/e/ | Ee/ɘ/ | Gg/g/ |
| GW gw/gʷ/ | GWH gwh/gʰʷ/ | Hh/ħ/ | Ii/i/1 | Kk/k/ | KW kw/kʷ/ | Ll/l/ | LH lh/ɬ/ | L̥ l̥/l̩/ | Mm/m/ | M̥ m̥/m̩/ |
| Nn/n/, [ŋ] | N̥ n̥/n̩/ | Oo/o/ | Ōō/o:/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ʔ/ | Rr/r/, [ɾ] | RH rh/ɻ/ | R̥ r̥/ɻ̩/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʂ/ |
| Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Uu/u/ | Ūū/u:/ | Xx/χ/ | XW xw/χʷ/ | Yy/ɨ/ | Ȳȳ/ɨ:/ | Zz/z/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- marginal phoneme, always occurs as /iʔ/
