Hįawau [HJA]
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[Deactivated User] on 6 April 2017
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Hįawau
originally from a gleblang challenge, the basic structure of the lang was made in 24 hours. im working on it more now cause i had fun with it. maybe itll go somewhere, maybe it wont. who knows
now with 100% more all seeing eye
- morphophonology
- hierarchical-ish active/stative-ish alignment ?
- 11 noun classes
- logophoric pronouns
- a load of classifiers for mass nouns
now with 100% more all seeing eye
Sample of Hįawau[view] Gaká kóttáu tát hįen, laų ki nue ge atól gecúnu. Hįen ge uų uįatmu, laų ki nue ge untú gecúnu.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.[view all texts]
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||
Plosive | t tʰ | c cʰ | k kʰ1 | |||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | h hʲ | |||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
- syllable finally
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | u | ||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
Open | a |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Hįawau. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
HįawauOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa/a/ | Cc/c/, /cʰ/ | Dd/tʰ/1 | Ee/ɛ/ | Gg/ŋ/ | Hh/h/, /hʲ/ | Ii/i/ | Įį/j/ | Jj/kʰ/2 | Kk/kʰ/, /k/ |
Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/ɲ/, /n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/f/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/, /tʰ/ | Uu/u/ | Ųų/w/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- syllable finally
- syllable finally