Tiwi [QCT]
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[Deactivated User] on 29 July 2018
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tiwi
Tiwi is the sole language still spoken by the Four Tribes of Tiwin. Mostly because their whole population now lives on a single island and it's just too complicated to keep all the languages alive. [Conlang for my story/worldbuilding project Entwined.]
Sample of Tiwi[view] Eravii, yidokami rayakas-ta'alsi?
Children, why are you bleeding?[view all texts]
Children, why are you bleeding?[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Blends | ts | kʋ |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ɑi |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tiwi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TiwiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| b B /b/ | d D /d/ | f F /f/ | k K /k/ | l L /l/ | m M /m/ | n N /n/ | p P /p/ | r R /ɾ/ | s S /s/ |
| t T /t/ | v V /v/ | w W /ʋ/ | th TH /θ/ | sh SH /ʃ/ | tch TCH /t͡ʃ/ | dh DH /ð/ | q Q /kʋ/ | y Y /j/ | ts TS /ts/ |
| z Z /z/ | a A /a/ | e E /e/ | i I /i/ | ii II /i:/ | æ Æ /ɑi/ | o O /o/ | u U /u/ | ë Ë /ə/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
