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Ławik Language

1. History

Around 50,000 B.C the foxes began developing language based off the humans proto-languages. The Ławik language belongs to the Yurr language family which was spoken from northern Europe and North America. Ławik has many sister languages Sväwengish, Svenka, Wanish, and Daskona. Ławik is sometimes called "Basic Fox" becuase it is the linga franca of the fox clans. The sound shift is very close to Germanic's Grimm Law however still different.

• k > *x
• g > *k
• t > *θ
• d > *t
• q > *χ
• ɢ > *q
• p > *kʷ
• b > *gʷ
• kʲ > *c
• gʲ > *ʇ
• sʲ > *ɕ
• zʲ > *ʑ
• lʲ > *ʎ
• kʷ > *ɰ̊
• gʷ > *ɰ
• s > *s̪
• z > *z̪
• m > *m
• j > *ʝ
• l > *l
• r > *r / *ɾ
• lr > *ɺ˔ / *ɺ
• ng > *ŋg
• nk > *ŋ̊k
• br > *ʙ

2. Phonotactics

-The Ławik language has plumonic-ingressive, plumonic-ejective, lingou, lingou-plumonic percussive airstreams.

-Ławik also has voiceless, voiced, creaky voice, yawny voice phonations.

-Manners of articulation are stop, fricative, approximant, trill, and tap.

-The sounds can also be oral or nasal.

-The tongue can be central or lateral.

-A consonant can become the nucleus of a syllable, making it a syllablic consonant.

-Unique sounds include lateral trills, new double-articulated sounds (velopharyngeal...), nareal fricatives, and many others.

-Vowel harmony affects backness, roundness.

-A vowel or syllablic consonant can not start a syllable (CVC). Four consonants are allowed at max in the onset or coda, and 1 at the least. The nucleus can have 2 at most (vowels or syllablic consonant).

-If the nucleus ends a loanword a coda can be made in these ways, taking a consonant from a onset of the next syllable (if in a cluster), using the unsyllablic version of the nucleus (in the case of a syllablic consonant it stays the same).

-Pitch is used to change the mood towards a verb or noun.

-Tail movement, hackle rising or lowering must occur simultaneously with the associated pitch for the mood.

-Purring is a phonetic sound (implosive-ejective glottal percussive) but the symbol "ƍ" is used

3. Phonology

= | approximants | 
= | fricatives |
= | stops |
= | nasals |
= | taps |
ʙ  r  ʀ  ᴙ  ɺ˔  = | trills |  (bilabial, alveolar, uvular, epiglottal, lateral-alveolar)
= | laterals |

4. Writing

A a = [

C c = [

D d = [

E e = [ e ~

F f = [ f ]

G g = [ g ]

H h = [ x ~ h ]

I i = [ i ~

K k = [ k ]

L l = [ l ]

M m = [ m ]

N n = [

O o = [

Q q = [ q ]

R r = [ r ]

Ŕ ŕ = [ ɾ ]

S s = [

T t = [

U u = [

V v = [ v ]

W w = [

Y y = [

Z z = [

Ł ł = [ ɬ ]

Ć ć = [ t͡ɕ ]

Č č = [ t͡ʃ ]

Ń ń = [ ɲ ]

Ś ś = [ ɕ ]

Š š = [ ʃ ]

Þ þ = [ θ ]

Ð ð = [ ð ]

Ḱ ḱ = [ c ]

5. Grammar

The Ławik language is aggulantive/fusional. It has two genders, feminine, neuter. Verbs have perfect (vs.) imperfect aspect, passive (vs.) active voice, agressive (vs.) dominance (vs.) food (vs.) happy (vs.) mating (vs.) alarm moods, past (vs.) non-past (vs.) infinte tenses. Nouns have instrumental (vs.) genitive (vs.) locative (vs.) lative (vs.) vocative (vs.) dative cases, there is no marking of subject, object, patient or any morphosyntactic. The word order since there is no morphosyntactic is free word order. Numbers are singular (vs.) plural (vs.) mass plural.

-þi(y) = [locative]

-ng = [lative]

-ii(y) = [genitive]

-o(y) = [instrumental]

-e(y) = [vocative]

-u(y) = [dative]

-a = [feminine]

-i = [neuter]

-k = [plural]

-h = [mass plural]

-aþ = [past]

-ną = [non-past]

-nę = [infinte]

(example): é = [happy]

(example): è = [aggressive]

(example): ê = [food]

(example): ĕ́ = [mating]

(example): ĕ̀ = [dominance]

(example): ě = [alarm]

6. Word List

•[Wa] = "we" (prn.)

•[Mklah] = "you-singular" (prn.)

•[Moy] = "me" (prn.)

•[Þoy] = "you-plural" (prn.)

•[Maklat] = "curse" (n.)

•[W] = "near, by, at" (prep.)

•[-hwe] = "and" (conj. / suffix)

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