Whehalu [WHL]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Whehalu
Spoken by a people somewhere. Largely isolating with some synthetic properties, mainly through pre- and infixing.
Language family relationships
Language treeFehalic languages
⤷ Proto-Fehalic (phesalu)
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Whehalu
⤷ Proto-Fehalic (phesalu)
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Whehalu[view] About Fehalic languagesNot much is known about the Fehalic languages, other than that it is spoken by a people living in the ruins of a much older civilisation.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p [pʰ]1 | ᵐb | t [tʰ]2 | ⁿd | k [kʰ]3 | ᵑg | q [qʰ]4 | |||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | s | h | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]5 | |||||||||||
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /q/
- allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɨ | [ʉ]1 | [ɯ]2 | u | |
| Close-mid | [e]3 | [o] | ||||
| Mid | [ə]4 | |||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]5 | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
- allophone of /ɨ/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /ɨ/
- allophone of /e/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Whehalu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| WhehaluOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/ᵐb/ | Dd/ⁿd/ | Ee/e/, [ɛ] | Gg/ᵑg/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/, [e] | Kk/k/, [kʰ] | Ll/l/, [ɾ] | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/u/, [ɯ], [o] | Pp/p/, [pʰ] | Qq/q/, [qʰ] | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/, [tʰ] | Uu/ɨ/, [ə], [ʉ] | Ww/β/ | WH wh/ɸ/ | Yy/j/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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