Walyavalywa [WLYW]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
Quaxin XunMinority
Quaxin XunMinoritySpecies
Human/humanoid
About Walyavalywa
A child of 
WWM, spoken in the islands of Quaxin Xun.
Phoneme inventory shamelessly ripped from Paiwan.
Ortho inspired by Fijian and Drehu.
Highlights include:
- 10 noun classes with highly irregular marking and pluralization (but quite regular prefixal case marking)
- irregular stems for imperatives & hortatives
- pitch accent shenanigans
- weird chain semshifts
- a monomorphemic word for "speak
Hlung" that isn't derived from "Hlung"
- buffalo milk cheese
- ｐａｌｍ ｗｉｎｅ
WWM, spoken in the islands of Quaxin Xun.Phoneme inventory shamelessly ripped from Paiwan.
Ortho inspired by Fijian and Drehu.
Highlights include:
- 10 noun classes with highly irregular marking and pluralization (but quite regular prefixal case marking)
- irregular stems for imperatives & hortatives
- pitch accent shenanigans
- weird chain semshifts
- a monomorphemic word for "speak
Hlung" that isn't derived from "Hlung"- buffalo milk cheese
- ｐａｌｍ ｗｉｎｅ
Sample of Walyavalywa[view] Aʼàtay bama yarúma yaŋádra yaʼáya bàna wajay ľi rà.
Maybe it was her father's sister's husband's wife's aunt or something.[view all texts]
Maybe it was her father's sister's husband's wife's aunt or something.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeNgerupic
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Wa Ñi
⤷ WWM
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Walyavalywa
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Wa Ñi⤷
WWM⤷
Walyavalywa[view] About NgerupicA large language family from the Akulanen region of Sahar.
Named for Wa Ñi ŋèrup 'people'.
Named for Wa Ñi ŋèrup 'people'.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | ɖ | c | ɟ | k | g | q | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | v | |||||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ʎ | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral flap | ɺ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i î ǐ | u û ǔ | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | ä ä̂ ä̌ | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Walyavalywa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| WalyavalywaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Áá/ä̌/ | Aa/ä/ | Àà/ä̂/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/c/ | Dd/d/ | DR dr/ɖ/ | Ee/ə/ | Gg/g/ | Ìì/î/ | Íí/ǐ/ |
| Ii/i/ | Jj/ɟ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/ɺ/ | Ľľ/ʎ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/q/ | Rr/r/ | Tt/t/ |
| Úú/ǔ/ | Ùù/û/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/t͡s/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | ʼ/ʔ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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