Paɋʷšupḿɨ̄́ɉīt

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Introduction

Paɋʷšupḿɨ̄́ɉīt is a personal artlang and loglang. It is an intentional kitchen sink, intended to contain every physiologically possible combination of every phonetic feature covered by the IPA, and to express an unrealistically large number of grammatical features.

Phonology

Phonemes

Paɋʷšupḿɨ̄́ɉīt has an extremely small phonemic inventory, but each phoneme has an extraordinary amount of allophonic variation:

Consonants: p, β̞, t, z̞

Vowels: a, ā, ɨ, ɨ̄

Phonotactics

Syllable Structure

A phonetic syllable can be either "simple" or "complex". Simple syllables consist of a lone syllabic consonantal continuant, and only occur word-initially. All other syllables are complex.

Complex syllables consist of at least one consonant followed by a syllabic voiced continuant of higher sonority. Word-medial syllables may also contain a simple coda. The onsets of word-medial complex syllables can consist maximally of an obstruent followed by a continuant.

Consonant clusters can occur at word boundaries. Word-initial clusters strictly increase in sonority, while word-final clusters strictly decrease in sonority. Both, however, may contain a sequence of two adjacent plosives of identical voicing.

The nucleus of a syllable, including consonantal continuants, can occur either short or long.

What follows is a table regarding the structure of complex syllables in various positions, where C is a consonant and V is any continuant more sonorous than the consonant preceding it:

Lone:	(C)(C)(C)(C)CV(C)(C)(C)(C)(C)(S)
Initial:	(C)(C)(C)(C)CV(C)
Medial:	CV(C)
Final:	CV(C)(C)(C)(C)(C)(S)

Grammar

morphology

Paɋʷšupḿɨ̄́ɉīt is fusional and polysynthetic, and makes extensive use of both compounding and noun incorporation.

Word stems are formed from a triconsonantal root that indicates a semantic quality, followed by a derivational affix that further defines the word's semantic meaning, defines its part of speech, and (for verbs) indicates certain aspects.

Nouns

Nouns are either "primary" or "deverbal". Primary nouns are formed from stems containing a nominal derivational affix. Deverbal nouns are formed from verbal stems with a deverbative introflection pattern.

A given bare noun can form a compound with one other noun. The resulting noun, whether compounded or not, takes case endings. To this final form, prepositional clitics can be attached, indicating other syntactical relationships.

Verbs

Verb stems have a verbal derivational affix. They undergo introflection (see below) to indicate mood, voice, tense, and most aspects.

The resulting bare verb can form a compound with up to two other bare verbs. The resulting verb, whether compounded or not, takes affixes specifying arguments, and can optionally incorporate a single noun. To this final form, prepositional clitics can be attached, indicating other syntactical relationships.

Orthography

Written Paɋʷšupḿɨ̄́ɉīt is a featural syllabic abjad. Each letter represents a phonemic consonant; these combine to form ligatures representing pluriconsonantal syllables. The form of each letter varies depending on its position within a ligature; each has a distinct isolated, initial, medial, syllabic medial, post-syllabic medial, final, syllabic final, and post-syllabic final form.

One letter, called ʔin, represents a vocalic segment whose quality is the same as the preceding vowel; it lacks post-syllabic and isolated forms. It thus effectively represents any long vowel.

Simple syllables are represented by the syllabic final form of the pronounced sonorant appended to ʔin as a ligature; this is the only context in which ʔin takes an initial form.

Romanization

There are two main modes of romanization: Academic (with diacritics and special characters) and English Standard (with only English letters).

Others

Paɋʷšupḿɨ̄́ɉīt is romanized differently in non-English languages that use a variation of the Latin script.

Example texts

Translations

•The Babel text

•Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Notes

¹Sonority terms are defined purely in terms of raw sonority, irrespective of other features. For example, “continuant” includes every pulmonic sound other than plosives and affricates, including nasals and trills.

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