Iwa [IWA]
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Iwa
Seijigo Ta'iwa [seid͡ʒigɤ taʔiwa]*
IwaSeijigo Ta'iwa [seid͡ʒigɤ taʔiwa]*
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Iwa
Iwa is a language spoken by the Iwan people. The Iwa are a race of anthropomorphic lizardfolk that resemble iguanas. It is a VSO language, with pronouns obligatorily suffixed to verbs. The Iwan language revolves around nouns, with verbs created through 7 suffixes with broad semantic meanings. Iwan culture features a high respect for nature and previous generations and/or the elderly, which is reflected in their language through its animate/inanimate gender distinction and different registers.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | n | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Click | ǀ | ǃ | ||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | ɯ | ||
| Close-mid | e | ɤ | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Iwa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 IwaOrthography | ||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | Cc/ǀ/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ |
| Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/ɤ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ |
| TS ts/t͡s/ | Uu/ɯ/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ǃ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||
