Eiwi [EIA]
▲
6▲ 6 ▼ 0
Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 26 March 2018
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Eiwi
Eiwi is a language comprised of only vowels and approximants. It only has four main vowels, but has five diphthongs that are distinct phonemes.
It is a priori, however, it is inspired by Tolkein's Elvish and Irish Gaelic.
It has a fairly rigid SVO word order.
It is quite isolating/analytical, but does have a few exception particularly with pronouns and plurals.
It has an insane number of personal pronouns (sixteen, though two of them are uncommon)
It is a priori, however, it is inspired by Tolkein's Elvish and Irish Gaelic.
It has a fairly rigid SVO word order.
It is quite isolating/analytical, but does have a few exception particularly with pronouns and plurals.
It has an insane number of personal pronouns (sixteen, though two of them are uncommon)
Sample of Eiwi[view] awë rihaji. awë rihaji. awë rihaji. awë rihaji ware. jel ihe ró ware ólara ëore.
blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin[view all texts]
blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Glottal | ||||
| Fricative | [h]1 | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | ʍ | w | ||||
- allophone of /ʍ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Open | a | ɒ | ||||
| Polyphthongs | ɪə | ɛə | eɪ | aɪ | ɛɒ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Eiwi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 EiwiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||||
| á Áá /ɛə/ | a Aa /a/ | e Ee /ɛ/ | ë Ëë /eɪ/ | h Hh /ʍ/ | ï Ïï /aɪ/ | i Ii /ɪ/ | j Jj /j/ | l Ll /l/ | o Oo /ɒ/ | ó Óó /ɛɒ/ | r Rr /ɹ/ | w Ww /w/ | ý Ýý /ɪə/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||||
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
The Many Pronouns of Eiwi
Full list of Eiwi personal pronouns
31-Dec-20 13:58non-IPA Eiwi Pronunciaion guide
How to pronounce Eiwi using English as a guide
05-May-18 05:37Eiwi Romanisation
Explaining the romanisation of Eiwi's phonemes
05-May-18 04:10
