Etinsa [HMM]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Etinsa
Things to consider:
- Simplify the plural system of Proto-Suvonic
- Simplify phonotactics even further: All syllables must begin with a consonant? (Make /ʔ/ written out only between vowels).
- Add ejectives.
Current sketch of plural marking: -m after vowels (causing rounding in all or no cases) and -u after consonants, causing gemination of the consonant it follows?
E.g. kõt "name" ~ kõttu "names"; opet "person" ~ opettu "people"; payu "sock" ~ payum "socks"; tĩsa "song" ~ tĩsom "songs"
- Simplify the plural system of Proto-Suvonic
- Simplify phonotactics even further: All syllables must begin with a consonant? (Make /ʔ/ written out only between vowels).
- Add ejectives.
Current sketch of plural marking: -m after vowels (causing rounding in all or no cases) and -u after consonants, causing gemination of the consonant it follows?
E.g. kõt "name" ~ kõttu "names"; opet "person" ~ opettu "people"; payu "sock" ~ payum "socks"; tĩsa "song" ~ tĩsom "songs"
Sample of Etinsa[view] Mau cõt Pesiu 'o; hu' mau casiu sĩ.
Is your name Janet; I like your planet.[view all texts]
Is your name Janet; I like your planet.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeHaspic
⤷ Haspuri
⤷ Proto-Suvo-Poshumic
⤷ Proto-Suvonic
⤷ Highland Suvonic
⤷ Etinsa
⤷ Haspuri
⤷ Proto-Suvo-Poshumic
⤷ Proto-Suvonic
⤷ Highland Suvonic
⤷ Etinsa
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ1 | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | [b]2 | t̪ | [d̪]3 | k4 | [g]5 | ʔ | |||||||||||
Fricative | [ɸ]6 | [θ]7 | s | [z]8 | [ɕ]9 | [x]10 | h | |||||||||||
Affricate | [t͡s:]11 | t͡ɕ | [d͡ʑ]12 | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ13 | j14 | [w]15 | |||||||||||||||
Trill | r16 | |||||||||||||||||
Flap | [ɾ]17 |
- fairly marginal; can only occur between two vowels
- next to a sonorant /ʋ r/, allophone of /p/
- next to a sonorant /ʋ r/, allophone of /t̪/
- cannot occur before a front vowel
- next to a sonorant /ʋ r/, allophone of /k/
- between two vowels, allophone of /p/
- between two vowels, allophone of /t̪/
- next to a sonorant /ʋ r/, allophone of /s/
- between two vowels, allophone of /t͡ɕ/
- between two vowels, allophone of /k/
- [t͡s] is in free association with [s], but is an esp. common realization of geminate /ss/, allophone of /s/
- next to a sonorant /ʋ r/, allophone of /t͡ɕ/
- cannot occur after nasal vowels; /m/ is present instead
- cannot occur after nasal vowels; /ɲ/ is present instead
- after consonants or near /u ɔ/, allophone of /ʋ/
- rarely or never occurs in onset. [r:] is the realization of /rr/
- in syllable onset and in free association between two vowels, allophone of /r/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | u | ||||
Mid | [ə]1 | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ | ||||
Open | a ã |
- allophone of /a ɛ ɔ/ in unstressed syllables
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Etinsa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
EtinsaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
'/ʔ/ | Ãã/ã/ | Aa/a/ | Cc/t͡ɕ/, [x]1, [ɕ]2, [d͡ʑ]3, [g]4 | Ee/ɛ/, [ə]5 | Ẽẽ/ɛ̃/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/6 | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
NG ng/ŋ/7 | NY ny/ɲ/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Õõ/ɔ̃/ | Pp/p/, [ɸ]8, [b]9 | Rr/r/10, [ɾ]11 | Ss/s/, [z]12 | Tt/t̪/, [θ]13, [d̪]14 | Uu/u/ | Vv/ʋ/15, [w]16 | Yy/j/17 | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- between two vowels
- between two vowels
- next to a sonorant /ʋ r/
- next to a sonorant /ʋ r/
- allophone of /a ɛ ɔ/ in unstressed syllables
- cannot occur before a front vowel
- fairly marginal; can only occur between two vowels
- between two vowels
- next to a sonorant /ʋ r/
- rarely or never occurs in onset. [r:] is the realization of /rr/
- in syllable onset and in free association between two vowels
- next to a sonorant /ʋ r/
- between two vowels
- next to a sonorant /ʋ r/
- cannot occur after nasal vowels; /m/ is present instead
- after consonants or near /u ɔ/
- cannot occur after nasal vowels; /ɲ/ is present instead
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