Hummish [HUMM]
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Hummish
m-m\ [ḿm̂]*
Hummishm-m\ [ḿm̂]*
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Hummish
This is an artlang based off Pirahã, which has a special register of speech that uses only humming. In this language, meaning is based off tone and word length, and verbs and nouns are distinguished by humming for nouns and a constant vowel sound for verbs. There are three clicks, which can be coarticulated with the verbs to indicate opinions, qualities of the verb or noun affected by the verb, or even prepositions.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||||
| Nasal | m1 m̂ ḿ m̀ m̌ | |||||||
| Click | ǀ2 | ǃ | ‼ | |||||
- Used for nouns, mostly
- Clicks coarticulated with verbs to show opinions, qualities, etc of the verb and the noun affected
| Vowels | Back | |
| Open-mid | ʌ1 ʌ̂ ʌ́ ʌ̀ ʌ̌ | |
- Used for verbs, mostly
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Hummish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 HummishOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||||
| Aa/ʌ/1 | A- a-/ʌ́/ | A/ a//ʌ̌/ | A\ a\/ʌ̂/ | A_ a_/ʌ̀/ | Dd/ǃ/ | Kk/‼/ | Mm/m/2 | M- m-/ḿ/ | M/ m//m̌/ | M\ m\/m̂/ | M_ m_/m̀/ | Tt/ǀ/3 |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||||
- Used for verbs, mostly
- Used for nouns, mostly
- Clicks coarticulated with verbs to show opinions, qualities, etc of the verb and the noun affected
