Simptliki

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Simptliki Zĩptliki
Spoken in:	somewhere in Gon
Conworld:	Melin
Total speakers:	?
Genealogical classification:	Simptlikian (Branch) (Subbranch) Simptliki
Basic word order:	TBD
Morphological type:	TBD
Morphosyntactic alignment:	TBD
Writing system:
Created by:
Pierre Abbat	2007-ongoing

Simptliki is an indigenous language spoken by the Sintlip people somewhere in the boonies of Gon. It has many consonants, few vowels, a few morphemes (not many of them assigned a meaning), and not much else yet.

Vowels

The vowels are a, i, and u. They can be long or short, or any two can be put together to make a diphthong. Short vowels have three tones, high, mid, and low; long vowels and diphthongs have in addition rising and falling tones. Vowels can be nasal (ãĩũ), constricted (ạịụ), or both. The pronunciation is rather variable; either /a/ or /i/ can sound like [ɛ].

Consonants

Most consonants that precede the vowel come in pairs, one ejective and one not. The ejective is written as if voiceless and the other as if voiced; voicing is nondistinctive.

• p, b, t, d, k, g, s, z, f, v, š, ž, ts, tz

Other consonants don't come in pairs:

• m, n, tl, kl

Any of these consonants can be preceded by f or s. Then the vowel can be followed by any of these six consonants:

• m, n, ŋ, p, t, k

Ejectivity is distinctive only in the consonant immediately preceding a vowel.

The ejective stops appear to descend from Proto-Simptlikian prestopped nasals, and the ejective fricatives were formed by analogy.

Morpheme forms

The morpheme forms are as follows:

1. CVCVC, inflecting to CVCCV by metathesis
   • tlibit -> tlitbi "one"
   • tlaikum. The form tlaimku is rare.
   • zitlip -> ziptli
   • klandii. The form kladiin is rare.
   • Zĩtlip -> Zĩptli (name of this people)

   These morphemes can be strung together: tlaikumzitlip, zitlipklandii.

2. CVCVCV where the first two CV are the same
   • tlitlima
3. -CV
   • -ki in zĩptliki
   • -kla and -di in zitlũpkladi
4. CV-
5. Single syllables
   • tlit or tlĩ "one", "an"
   • bịt
6. Other words
   • ftuda
   • tliniãtla
   • zistạ̃ụ̃dii