Tsehuniki [PUP]
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Tsehuniki
Tsehuniki ['tse.hu.ni.ki]
Tsehuniki ['tse.hu.ni.ki]
Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 27 April 2019
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tsehuniki
Tsehuniki is a language spoken by humanoid shapeshifters inhabiting Yinsolsha, a country located on a peninsula comprised of roughly four historical nations.
Features:
-SOV word order
-mainly CV syllables with l,m,n,ng,p,t and k as optional codas
-adjectives derived from nouns and verbs
-uses Base 6
-first person plural Inclusive + Exclusive
-pronouns with optional gender, using names when possible
-1st person pronoun optionally expressing gender
-Tenses:
Future, Preterite, Perfect, Inchoactive
-Valency-Changing Operations:
Passive and Causative
-Evidentiality:
Witness(sensory)
Inferred
Second-hand(reportative)
Hearsay(reportative, unreliable)
-Plural & Dual nouns
-Syllabary, glyphs can stand for whole words
-written top-down, right-left
+some smaller stuff, also working on a Yinsolsha mythology and history + characters and stories for the world
I started working on Tsehuniki in winter 2019, because I wanted to expand my worldbuilding with a conlang. It's also my first! I'm currently not updating regularly, though I have a big backlog of vocabulary. Grammar and orthography are mainly inspired by Southeast Asian languages, but also have some Slavic and Germanic influences. I'm working on a syllabary but won't transfer it on here in the forseeable future.
Features:
-SOV word order
-mainly CV syllables with l,m,n,ng,p,t and k as optional codas
-adjectives derived from nouns and verbs
-uses Base 6
-first person plural Inclusive + Exclusive
-pronouns with optional gender, using names when possible
-1st person pronoun optionally expressing gender
-Tenses:
Future, Preterite, Perfect, Inchoactive
-Valency-Changing Operations:
Passive and Causative
-Evidentiality:
Witness(sensory)
Inferred
Second-hand(reportative)
Hearsay(reportative, unreliable)
-Plural & Dual nouns
-Syllabary, glyphs can stand for whole words
-written top-down, right-left
+some smaller stuff, also working on a Yinsolsha mythology and history + characters and stories for the world
I started working on Tsehuniki in winter 2019, because I wanted to expand my worldbuilding with a conlang. It's also my first! I'm currently not updating regularly, though I have a big backlog of vocabulary. Grammar and orthography are mainly inspired by Southeast Asian languages, but also have some Slavic and Germanic influences. I'm working on a syllabary but won't transfer it on here in the forseeable future.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ʃ | ɕ | h | |||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | t͡ɕ | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
Flap | [ɾ]1 |
- allophone of /l/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i | [ɯ]1 | u | |||||
Near-close | [ɪ]2 | |||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
Mid | [ə]3 | |||||||
Open-mid | [ɜ]4 | [ɔ]5 | ||||||
Near-open | [ɐ]6 | |||||||
Open | a |
Polyphthongs | io | ua | iu | oi | ai | eo | ia | ui |
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tsehuniki. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
TsehunikiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
a/a/, [ɐ] | ai/ai/ | b/b/ | ch/t͡ʃ/ | d/d/ | e/e/, [ə], [ɜ] | eo/eo/ | f/f/ | g/g/ | h/h/ | i/i/, [ɪ] |
ia/ia/ | io/io/ | iu/iu/ | k/k/ | l/l/, [ɾ] | m/m/ | n/n/ | ng/ŋ/ | o/o/, [ɔ] | oi/oi/ | p/p/ |
s/s/ | sh/ʃ/ | t/t/ | ts/t͡s/ | u/u/, [ɯ] | ua/ua/ | ui/ui/ | w/w/ | x/ɕ/ | xh/t͡ɕ/ | y/j/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |