Yawebya [YGB]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Yawebya
A strongly isolating language, focused on complex juxtapositions of syntax to determine the meanings of phrases. Set during the late chalcolithic period of a conworld, and spoken by several tens of thousands of individuals in sedentary farming communities in a volcanic flood plain.
Some features of Yawebya include:
-OSV word order in standard clauses, although word order is changed for relative clauses (SOV/OVS) and becomes more complicated with evidentiality.
-Various phonemic phonations and tones: plain, creaky-voiced, and high. Further, all consonants have aspirated or breathy forms, which may have allophonic effects on their syllable.
-Particle markings for transitivity and evidentiality deriving from other verbs.
Some features of Yawebya include:
-OSV word order in standard clauses, although word order is changed for relative clauses (SOV/OVS) and becomes more complicated with evidentiality.
-Various phonemic phonations and tones: plain, creaky-voiced, and high. Further, all consonants have aspirated or breathy forms, which may have allophonic effects on their syllable.
-Particle markings for transitivity and evidentiality deriving from other verbs.
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m mʱ | n nʱ | ŋ ŋʱ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p [pʼ]1 pʰ | b bʱ | t [tʼ]2 tʰ | d dʱ | k [kʼ]3 kʰ | g gʱ | [ʔ] | |||||||
| Fricative | f fʰ | v vʱ | s sʰ | z zʱ | h | ɦ | ||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡sʼ]4 | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l lʱ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | [ɬ]5 | [ɮ]6 | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | j jʱ | w wʱ | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r rʱ | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i [iʱ]1 ḭ í | [y]2 [yʱ]3 [y̰]4 [ý]5 | u [uʱ]6 ṵ ú | |
| Open-mid | ɛ [ɛʱ]7 ɛ̰ ɛ́ | [œ]8 [œʱ]9 [œ̰]10 [œ́]11 | ɔ [ɔʱ]12 ɔ̰ ɔ́ | |
| Open | a [aʱ]13 a̰ á | [ɒ]14 [ɒʱ]15 [ɒ̰]16 [ɒ́]17 | ||
| Polyphthongs | ɒɛ ɒɛ̰ ɒɛ́ | uɛ uɛ̰ uɛ́ | iɛ iɛ̰ iɛ́ | uɔ uɔ̰ uɔ́ | aɔ aɔ̰ aɔ́ | iɔ iɔ̰ iɔ́ |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /ḭ/
- allophone of /í/
- allophone of /uʱ/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ɛ̰/
- allophone of /ɛ́/
- allophone of /ɔʱ/
- allophone of /aʱ/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /a̰/
- allophone of /a̰/
- allophone of /á/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Yawebya. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 YawebyaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/, [ɒʱ], [ɒ], [aʱ] | Ââ/a̰/, [ɒ̰] | Áá/á/, [ɒ́] | AE ae/ɒɛ/ | ÂE âe/ɒɛ̰/ | ÁE áe/ɒɛ́/ | AO ao/aɔ/ | ÂO âo/aɔ̰/ | ÁO áo/aɔ́/ | Bb/b/ |
| BH bh/bʱ/ | Dd/d/ | DH dh/dʱ/ | Ee/ɛ/, [œʱ], [ɛʱ], [œ] | Êê/ɛ̰/, [œ̰] | Éé/ɛ́/, [œ́] | Ff/f/ | FH fh/fʰ/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/gʱ/ |
| Hh/h/ | Ii/i/, [yʱ], [iʱ], [y] | Íí/í/, [ý] | Îî/ḭ/, [y̰] | IE ie/iɛ/ | ÍE íe/iɛ́/ | ÎE îe/iɛ̰/ | ÍO ío/iɔ́/ | IO io/iɔ/ | ÎO îo/iɔ̰/ |
| Kk/k/, [ʔ] | KH kh/kʰ/ | Ll/l/, [ɮ] | LH lh/lʱ/ | Mm/m/ | MH mh/mʱ/ | Nn/n/ | NH nh/nʱ/ | Óó/ɔ́/ | Ôô/ɔ̰/ |
| Oo/ɔ/, [ɔʱ] | Pp/p/ | PH ph/pʰ/ | Rr/r/ | RH rh/rʱ/ | Ss/s/, [ɬ], [t͡sʼ] | SH sh/sʰ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/tʰ/ | Úú/ú/ |
| Ûû/ṵ/ | Uu/u/, [uʱ] | UE ue/uɛ/ | ÛE ûe/uɛ̰/ | ÚE úe/uɛ́/ | ÛO ûo/uɔ̰/ | ÚO úo/uɔ́/ | UO uo/uɔ/ | Vv/v/ | VH vh/vʱ/ |
| Ww/w/ | WH wh/wʱ/ | Yy/j/ | YH yh/jʱ/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/zʱ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | ŊH ŋh/ŋʱ/ | Ɦɦ/ɦ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
