Niualsa [IUS]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Niualsa
Niualsa is an African and Semitic inspired language. It is an agglutinative language that heavily uses both prefixes and suffixes. One interesting feature of this language is that adjectives are combined with nouns to form one large word. Verbs and nouns are affected by gender (m/f/n) and number. Niualsa's plurality is split into dual and more than two (and obviously singular).
Sample of Niualsa[view] Now husaux bau lbina continued to be vi one rihus and vi one vocabulary. As they travelled eastward, they discovered a valley plain in bau husaux vi Sinura, du they began dwelling there. Then they hu-mau to one another: "La nusu! Let us hu-nalumala wuabubul du hu-salaxula them with wahabin." So they used wuabubul instead of luban, and bitumen as mo...[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeIsolates
⤷ Isolate languages
⤷ Proto-Galomaoha
⤷ Matiwa
⤷ Old Sudaba
⤷ Haumba
⤷ Niualsa
⤷ Isolate languages
⤷ Proto-Galomaoha
⤷ Matiwa
⤷ Old Sudaba
⤷ Haumba
⤷ Niualsa
[view] About IsolatesThis is a family for isolate languages.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | ʔ | |||||||||
Fricative | s | h | ||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | ɹ | j | ʍ | w | ɰ |
Blends | lt | ls | lb | ln | lʋ |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | u | ||
Open | a |
Polyphthongs | iai | iau | ui | aui | iui | uiu | au | aua | uai | ai |
uau | ia | aia | aiu | uia | iua | ua | iu |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Niualsa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
NiualsaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa an /a/ | Bb ba /b/ | Cc t͡sa /t͡s/ | Dd da /d/ | Hh ha /h/ | Ii in /i/ | Jj ɰa /ɰ/ | Ll la /l/ | Mm ma /m/ | Nn na /n/ |
Pp pa /p/ | Rr ɹa /ɹ/ | Ss sa /s/ | Tt ta /t/ | Uu un /u/ | Vv ʍa /ʍ/ | Ww wa /w/ | Xx ʋa /ʋ/ | Yy ja /j/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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Verb Possession in Niualsa
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11-Apr-19 19:30