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Dwekoenish (native: Dvekönešč) is a fictional diachronic language created by Marko Stanković, aka Stelvojoj. | |||
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Revision as of 12:17, 15 June 2010
Dwekoenish (native: Dvekönešč) is a fictional diachronic language created by Marko Stanković, aka Stelvojoj.
| Dwekoenish Dvekönešč | |
| Spoken in: | Dwekoenia (Dveköneas) |
| Conworld: | Alternate Earth |
| Total speakers: | Unknown |
| Genealogical classification: | Arvaši
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| Basic word order: | VSO |
| Morphological type: | inflecting |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | nominative-accusative |
| Writing system: | |
| Created by: | |
| Stelvojoj | 2008 AD |
Phonology
Dwekoennish has a relatively Indo-Europeanesque inventory of consonants and vowels. Of special note are the abundance of coronal fricatives, affricates, and the presence of two fully fronted, fully low vowels.
Consonants
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | (ɲ) | (ŋ) | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Tap, Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | (c) | (x) | h | |||||
| Affricate | ts | dz | tʃ | dʒ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Short Vowels
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||
| High | i | ʉ | ||||||||
| Near-high | ɪ | |||||||||
| High-mid | ɤ | |||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Low-mid | ɛ œ | |||||||||
| Near-low | ||||||||||
| Low | a ɶ | ɒ | ||||||||
Long Vowels
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||
| High | iː | uː | ||||||||
| Near-high | ||||||||||
| High-mid | eː øː | ɤː oː | ||||||||
| Mid | ||||||||||
| Low-mid | ɜː | |||||||||
| Near-low | ||||||||||
| Low | aː ɶː | |||||||||
Orthography
The Dwekoennish alphabet contains 31 letters. It consists of 9 vowels and 22 consonants.
A a - /a/
B b - /b/
C c - /ʦ/
Č č - /ʧ/
D d - /d/
Ð ð - /ð/
E e - /ɛ/
F f - /f/
G g - /g/
H h - /h, x, ç/
I i - /i/
J j - /j/
K k - /k/
L l - /l/
M m - /m/
N n - /n, ŋ, ɲ/
O o - /ɒ/
Õ õ - /ɤ, ɤː/
P p - /p/
R r - /ɾ, ɹ/
S s - /s/
Š š - /ʃ/
T t - /t/
Þ þ - /θ/
U u - /ʉ/
V v - /v/
Y y - /ɪ/
Z z - /z/
Ž ž - /ʒ/
Ö ö - /œ, øː/
Ő ő - /ɶ, ɶː/
Non-alphabetic letters:
Á á - /aː/ É é - /eː/ Í í - /iː/ Ó ó - /oː/ Ú ú - /uː/ È è - /ə, ɜː/
The vowels marked with acutes represent the long variants of the respective short vowels. The letter È represents a mid-open central unrounded vowel when long and is reduced to a schwa when short. (It is never marked for length.)
The letters Õ, Ö, and Ő are also not marked for length. Õ and Ő typically do not change in phonemic value when lengthened, but Ö rises from a mid-open to a mid-close vowel. Y has no long variant.
