Gfiewish [GFW]
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[view flag info] Gfiewish
Gfiewgjknsiorjgiosowna [gʷɪːʍ.ʒɘʝɘ.knʂɪʊɹ.jɘ.ʒɪʊ.ʂoʍ.na]
[view flag info] Gfiewish
Gfiewgjknsiorjgiosowna [gʷɪːʍ.ʒɘʝɘ.knʂɪʊɹ.jɘ.ʒɪʊ.ʂoʍ.na]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
GfiewgjknsiorjgiostanOfficial
SaantRegional
Mermelia and LLilaRegional
LufasaMinority
TullachiaMinority
GfiewgjknsiorjgiostanOfficial SaantRegional Mermelia and LLilaRegional LufasaMinority TullachiaMinoritySpecies
Human/humanoid
About Gfiewish
Language of Gfiewgjknsiorjgiostan. Inspired by Slavic and Nordic languages (and a bit Finnish), with some other things like three-way animacy and ergative-absolutive alignment added to make things more interesting.
Seven cases: Absolutive, ergative, genitive, dative, locative, instrumental, comitative
Other features: ablaut, head-final, SOV, copula and/or pronoun dropping, 4th person, singular and paucal as well as plural, "and" expressed with comitative, syllabic /ɭ/
Developed with some help by @alice and @Curlie
Gfiewgjknsiorjgiostan. Inspired by Slavic and Nordic languages (and a bit Finnish), with some other things like three-way animacy and ergative-absolutive alignment added to make things more interesting.Seven cases: Absolutive, ergative, genitive, dative, locative, instrumental, comitative
Other features: ablaut, head-final, SOV, copula and/or pronoun dropping, 4th person, singular and paucal as well as plural, "and" expressed with comitative, syllabic /ɭ/
Developed with some help by @alice and @Curlie
Language family relationships
Language treeYstelic
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Proto-Ystelic
⤷ Proto-Gfiewic-Maponic
⤷ Proto-Gfiewic
⤷ Pre-Gfiewish
⤷ Old Gfiewish
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Gfiewish
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Proto-Ystelic⤷
Proto-Gfiewic-Maponic⤷ Proto-Gfiewic
⤷ Pre-Gfiewish
⤷ Old Gfiewish
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Gfiewish[view] About YstelicA large family of languages spoken on the continent of Ystel.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m mʷ m: | n nʷ n: | ɲ1 | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | t tʷ t: | d dʷ d: | [ʈ]2 | k kʷ k: | g gʷ3 | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | β βʷ | f f: | [v]4 | [s]5 [sʷ]6 | z | [ʒ]7 | ʂ ʂʷ | ʝ ʝʷ | x | h | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ɭ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | [j]8 | ʍ ʍ: | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | [ʝə]9 | [jə]10 | [ʒə]11 | [gə]12 | b̪v13 |
- becomes [n.j] when preceded by [ʝ]
- at the beginning of words or syllables, unless preceded by another retroflex or palatals, allophone of /t:/
- [ʒʷə] before palatal sounds
- after m and in the beginning or middle of consonant clusters, allophone of /βʷ/
- allophone of /ʂ/
- allophone of /ʂʷ/
- before vowel diphthongs and plosives, [ʒə] before palatals, allophone of /g/
- dialectal variation, allophone of /ʝ/
- before velars, plosives and consonant clusters with no [ʒ], allophone of /ʝ/
- before [ʒ], allophone of /ʝ/
- before palatal sounds, allophone of /g/
- if a retroflex sound follows immediately, allophone of /g/
- written 'bb'
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | ɯ | |||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | [ʊ]1 | ||||||||
| Close-mid | [ɘ]2 | o | ||||||||
| Mid | [ə]3 | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||||
| Near-open | [ɐ]4 | |||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɯə | ɪʊ | ʊə | ɪə |
- allophone of /ɯ/, allophone of /o/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- in most unstressed syllables, allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /a/
Stress informationStress typically falls on the first syllable, with few exceptions.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Gfiewish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| GfiewishOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/, [ɐ] | Bb/β/, [v]1 | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/, [ə]2, [ɘ] | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/, [ʒ]3 | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Jj/ʝ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/ɭ/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/, [ʊ]4 | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/ʂ/, [s] | Tt/t/, [ʈ]5 | Uu/ɯ/, [ʊ] | Ww/ʍ/ | Xx/x/ | Zz/ʒ/6 | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- after m and in the beginning or middle of consonant clusters
- in most unstressed syllables
- before vowel diphthongs and plosives, [ʒə] before palatals
- allophone of /ɯ/
- at the beginning of words or syllables, unless preceded by another retroflex or palatals
- At the beginning of words or before single vowels
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Allophony
Allophony rules explained
03-Jun-22 00:00Assorted notes
Unsorted notes on the grammar of Gfiewish
29-May-22 20:44Overview of the 15 states making up Gfiewgjknsiorjgiostan
Maps, introduction of geography, economy, population and inf...
31-Mar-18 12:48Gfiewish Pronouns
declined for every case
15-May-17 17:55
