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Tiwasi
Tiwasi [tiwasi]*
TiwasiTiwasi [tiwasi]*
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tiwasi
Tiwasi is an indigenous language of North America originally spoken along the south-central and south-eastern coast of the United States. Unlike most other Native American languages, which are either extinct or endangered, Tiwasi is still widely used by a thriving community of speakers, most of whom belong to the Tiwa tribe, who are the native speakers of Tiwasi.
Some features of Tiwasi include:
-SOV word order
-Very agglutinative
-Highly regular morphology
-Nominative-accusative alignment
-Three tones (low, regular, high)
Some features of Tiwasi include:
-SOV word order
-Very agglutinative
-Highly regular morphology
-Nominative-accusative alignment
-Three tones (low, regular, high)
Sample of Tiwasi[view] Jejóhimè. Jeqoósimè èega, kuŧùupolàlaákwi.
I don’t dislike him. I just don’t like him, which is quite different.[view all texts]
I don’t dislike him. I just don’t like him, which is quite different.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | d | k kʷ | g gʷ | q qʷ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | θ | s | ʃ | ɦ | ||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i í ì | u ú ù | ||
| Close-mid | e é è | o ó ò | ||
| Open | a á à | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tiwasi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TiwasiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | À à/à/ | Á á/á/ | Čč/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | È è/è/ | É é/é/ | Gg/g/ |
| GW gw/gʷ/ | Hh/ɦ/ | Ìì/ì/ | Íí/í/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | KW kw/kʷ/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Ò ò/ò/ | Ó ó/ó/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/q/ | QW qw/qʷ/ | Rr/r/ |
| Šš/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ù ù/ù/ | Ú ú/ú/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Ŧŧ/θ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
