Watsound [WAU]
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[Deactivated User] on 2 December 2018
Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Watsound
Watsound was my first conlang (initially called Primelang, but then abandoned this idea as it sounds too generic)
The idea is that this is one of the earliest speeches in my conworld. And all languages in this conworld will be eventually descended from it.
The phonology is really simple.
2 nasals, 3 stops, h, l and a flap.
5 vowels (a, e, o, ǝ, œ).
Highly agglutinative e.g. big - "u-kanah-emd"
Were u (adjectival prefix), kanah (more), emd (encoding result)
Grammar is reallynonexistent simple.
No tenses.
No gender.
3 cases.
3 numbers.
Adjectives agree only in number.
The only thing that defines grammar is its strict VSO word order.
On hold for now because I'm fully into developing its daughter lang.
Oceanic
Watsound was my first conlang (The idea is that this is one of the earliest speeches in my conworld. And all languages in this conworld will be eventually descended from it.
The phonology is really simple.
2 nasals, 3 stops, h, l and a flap.
5 vowels (a, e, o, ǝ, œ).
Highly agglutinative e.g. big - "u-kanah-emd"
Were u (adjectival prefix), kanah (more), emd (encoding result)
Grammar is really
No tenses.
No gender.
3 cases.
3 numbers.
Adjectives agree only in number.
The only thing that defines grammar is its strict VSO word order.
On hold for now because I'm fully into developing its daughter lang.
Oceanic
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Plosive | b | d | k | |||||
| Fricative | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close-mid | e | |||||
| Mid | ə | o̞ | ||||
| Open-mid | [œ]1 | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
- allophone of /ə/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Watsound. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| WatsoundOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ə/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o̞/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Uu[œ] |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||||
