Niwera [NWRA]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Niwera
A new beginning
- VOS
- Adjective, numeral and possesee before nouns
- Adposition after Subject and/or Object
- Adverbs before verbs
- Transitivity marked
- Infinitive and 3.SG identicals
- Stative verbs from adjectives (always past)
- Marked objects varies by verb transitivity
- Inverse numerals varies by nouns
- VOS
- Adjective, numeral and possesee before nouns
- Adposition after Subject and/or Object
- Adverbs before verbs
- Transitivity marked
- Infinitive and 3.SG identicals
- Stative verbs from adjectives (always past)
- Marked objects varies by verb transitivity
- Inverse numerals varies by nouns
Sample of Niwera[view] Uma mpisun ak fenexamɔ nalairau iki aɔquirau, waɔn awak o nwexe sɛk umisoha. Nwexje aɔn ntimisun.
After a long time without creating words or perspectives, now it's time to start all over again. A new era has begun.[view all texts]
After a long time without creating words or perspectives, now it's time to start all over again. A new era has begun.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | ᵐb | t tʰ | ⁿd | k kʰ | ᵑg | ||||||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ʃ | x | h | ⁿɦ | ||||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s t͡sʰ | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ | t͡ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | ɻ | j | w | |||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | u | ||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||
Mid | ə | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
Open | a | ɒ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Niwera. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
NiweraOrthography | |||||||||
h hun /h/ | nh nhun /ⁿɦ/ | m my /m/ | p pojo /p/ | ph phojo /pʰ/ | mp mpojo /ᵐb/ | f fwa /f/ | n ny /n/ | t tojo /t/ | th thojo /tʰ/ |
nt ntojo /ⁿd/ | s swa /s/ | c cajo /t͡s/ | ch chajo /t͡sʰ/ | x xwa /ʃ/ | z zajo /t͡ʃ/ | zh zhajo /t͡ʃʰ/ | ŋ ŋy /ŋ/ | k kojo /k/ | kh khojo /kʰ/ |
nk nkojo /ᵑg/ | q qwa /x/ | j jo /j/ | w wawi /w/ | r ɛry /ɾ/ | rr arru /ɻ/ | l lue /l/ | ll llɛ /ɬ/ | tll itllɛ /t͡ɬ/ | a a-hi /a/ |
ʌ ʌ-hi /ɒ/ | e e-hi /e/ | ɛ ɛ-hi /ɛ/ | o o-hi /o/ | ɔ ɔ-hi /ɔ/ | i i-hi /i/ | u u-hi /u/ | y y-hi /ə/ | ||
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