Divigam [DIWI]
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Divigam
Waranāha diwi [ʋɐɾɐˈnaːxɐ ˈdiʋi]
DivigamWaranāha diwi [ʋɐɾɐˈnaːxɐ ˈdiʋi]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Divigam
Ā-Diwigamaha daraŋaya yīdahaduṇayi
Welcome to the Divigam language page
Divigam (in Divigam: Ā-Diwigam [aː ˈdi.ʋi.ɡɐm]; also known as Waranāha diwi [ʋɐɾɐˈnaːxɐ ˈdiʋi]) is one of the two [placeholder] languages, spoken on the [placeholder] islands. It is an ergative agglutinative language with few irregular word forms. Verbs in Divigam don't mark for tense but instead tense is expressed via aspect and/or helper time words. Though the language can work with free word order people commonly utilize SOV or VOS structure. Adjectives and adverbs are formed in a genitive construction. Phonetically the language exhibits a five way distinction in articulation between plosive, nasal and continuant sounds, and dosen't distinguish voicing, however prefering voiced consonants.
Welcome to the Divigam language page
Divigam (in Divigam: Ā-Diwigam [aː ˈdi.ʋi.ɡɐm]; also known as Waranāha diwi [ʋɐɾɐˈnaːxɐ ˈdiʋi]) is one of the two [placeholder] languages, spoken on the [placeholder] islands. It is an ergative agglutinative language with few irregular word forms. Verbs in Divigam don't mark for tense but instead tense is expressed via aspect and/or helper time words. Though the language can work with free word order people commonly utilize SOV or VOS structure. Adjectives and adverbs are formed in a genitive construction. Phonetically the language exhibits a five way distinction in articulation between plosive, nasal and continuant sounds, and dosen't distinguish voicing, however prefering voiced consonants.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | b | d̪ | ɖ | ɟ | g | |||||||||||
| Fricative | [ʑ]1 | [ç]2 | x | [ɣ]3 | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | [ɟ͡ʝ]4 | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | [ɻ]5 | j | [w] | ||||||||||||
| Trill | [r̥]6 | [r]7 | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | ɽ | ||||||||||||||
- allophone of /ɟ/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /ɟ/
- allophone of /ɽ/
- allophone of /ɾ/
- allophone of /ɾ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i i: | [ʉ]1 [ʉ:]2 | u u: | |||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ:]3 | [ʊ]4 | ||||||||
| Close-mid | [e]5 | [ɘ]6 | [ɵ]7 [ɵ:]8 | |||||||
| Near-open | [ɐ]9 | |||||||||
| Open | a a: | [ɑ]10 [ɑ:]11 | ||||||||
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /u:/
- allophone of /i:/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /u:/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /a:/
Syllable StructureDivigam's syllable structure is (C)V(C), no consonant clusters are allowed, and if a word ends in a consonant it must be /m, n, ŋ, ɾ/ or /ɽ/.
Stress informationThe stress goes on the first heavy syllable, being the first syllable with a long vowel, if there are no heavy syllables in a word then the stress is on the first syllable.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Divigam. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 DivigamOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Āā/a:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ḍḍ/ɖ/ | Gg/g/ | Ǵǵ/ɟ/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ | Īī/i:/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n̪/ | Ṇṇ/ɳ/ | Ńń/ɲ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ṛṛ/ɽ/ | Uu/u/ | Ūū/u:/ | Ww/ʋ/ | Yy/j/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
