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Niualsa
Niualsa
[ni-u-als-a]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 8 April 2019
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]
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Language family relationships
Language treeIsolates
 ⤷ Isolate languages
  ⤷ Proto-Galomaoha
   ⤷ Matiwa
    ⤷ Old Sudaba
     ⤷ Haumba
      ⤷  Niualsa
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Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
AlveolarPalatalLabio-
velar
VelarGlottal
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
VowelsFrontBack
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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    Typological information for Niualsa

    Animacy distinctionsAnimate/Inanimate
    Definite articleDistinct article
    Fixed stress locationNone
    GendersMasculine/Feminine/Neuter
    Noun numbersSingular/Dual/Plural

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