WWM [WWM]
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Language type
Other
Species
Human/humanoid
About WWM
This language wants you to call it WWM, since its full name, Wanyima-Wanyóa, which means 'the new language of you and I', is rather long. The name was given to it by its western neighbors, who thought of themselves as having a more archaic form of the languages, against which WWM was considered more innovative. It actually is fairly innovative as it has become more synthetic.
It was spoken around 1000 BCE in the pink area on the flag, in what is now Magali, Sahar. Descendants are spoken across a large area of Akulanen, from northern Magali east through Shohai to northern Amerhan. The largest is Yavodna, spoken by about 30 million people in Magali.
latest news: semshifting finished after more than a year, all words are canonical!
Current status: finishing touches on grammar (completing morphophonology article and adding examples to grammar article mainly).
Features:
-Australian-ish in phonology
-do you like morphophonology? I sure hope you do
-Accent is usually initial (unmarked) or on second syllable (marked) unless there's a case prefix, but don't worry, any non-initial stress is marked. In some of the daughters it turns back into tone!
-there are prefixing cases, which are ergative in alignment
-However, verb marking is usually nominative-accusative, though there are a few very specific exceptions
-imperatives mark location and aspect
-transitivity marking on verbs: if a verb ends in -ma, it is transitive
-elevation and direction marking on verbs!
-an absurd number of words for tea
It was spoken around 1000 BCE in the pink area on the flag, in what is now Magali, Sahar. Descendants are spoken across a large area of Akulanen, from northern Magali east through Shohai to northern Amerhan. The largest is Yavodna, spoken by about 30 million people in Magali.
latest news: semshifting finished after more than a year, all words are canonical!
Current status: finishing touches on grammar (completing morphophonology article and adding examples to grammar article mainly).
Features:
-Australian-ish in phonology
-do you like morphophonology? I sure hope you do
-Accent is usually initial (unmarked) or on second syllable (marked) unless there's a case prefix, but don't worry, any non-initial stress is marked. In some of the daughters it turns back into tone!
-there are prefixing cases, which are ergative in alignment
-However, verb marking is usually nominative-accusative, though there are a few very specific exceptions
-imperatives mark location and aspect
-transitivity marking on verbs: if a verb ends in -ma, it is transitive
-elevation and direction marking on verbs!
-an absurd number of words for tea
Language family relationships
[view] About NgerupicWith over one hundred languages and approximately 500 million speakers in total, the Ngerupic languages comprise one of the largest language families on Sahar, spoken predominantly in Akulanen, Soltenna, and the Terminian Dominion. Countries with Nge...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||
Plosive | p | t̪ | t | ʈ | c | k | ||||||||
Lateral approximant | l l̪ | ɭ | ||||||||||||
Approximant | ɻ | j | w | |||||||||||
Flap | ɾʲ | ɽ |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i i: í | u u: ú | ||||
Open | ä ä: ä́: ä́ |
Polyphthongs | eä eä́ | oä oä́ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for WWM. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
WWMOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa/ä/ | AA aa/ä:/ | EA ea/eä/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | LH lh/l̪/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NH nh/n̪/ |
NY ny/ɲ/ | OA oa/oä/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɻ/ | RL rl/ɭ/ | RN rn/ɳ/ | RR rr/ɽ/ | RT rt/ʈ/ | RY ry/ɾʲ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/t̪/ | TY ty/c/ |
Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Áá/ä́/ | ÁA áa/ä́:/ | ÉA éa/eä́/ | Íí/í/ | ÓA óa/oä́/ | Úú/ú/ | ||
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Latest 8 related articles listed below.
WWM Grammar
synthesis tho
10-Nov-19 01:59Ancestral Northern Akulanen Culture
1000 BCE: NE Magali, Shohai, NE Amerhan
29-Mar-19 21:38WWM Derivational Morphology
make those words
02-Mar-19 07:50WWM Morphophonology
covphopho, or 'why the sounds change sometimes'
14-Feb-19 08:18From WWM to written Yavodna
sound changes
07-Nov-18 11:25WWM Text #1
nganliátrrutway umú ityárlama
06-Nov-18 07:56From Wa Ñi to Wanyima-Wanyuu
what it says
08-Jun-18 07:47WWM Compounding
and sandhi
16-May-18 01:42