Hwautto [HWA]
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Hwautto
ჰჳაჵტო [ʍaʊtʼo]
Hwauttoჰჳაჵტო [ʍaʊtʼo]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Hwautto
Whautto is a language spoken by a culture of people who form personal connections with dragons (`a la Dragonriders of Pern) in a modern setting.
Some features of the language:
Ejective stops and a series of voiceless sonorants, but no bilabials
Three genders: feminine, masculine, and neuter, with many nouns that have arbitrary/non-semantic gender Thirteen different cases: 6 structural, 4 locational, and 3 causal Split-S morphosyntactic alignment, with intransitive verbs categorized as Active or Inactive depending on whether their subjects take agentive or patientive case Default word order AVP Written using an adapted form of the Georgian alphabet (and also romanized) Tends towards the isolating side by having few morphemes per word
Some features of the language:
Sample of HwauttoCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
| Nasal | n1 n̥ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | t tʼ | d | ʈ ʈʼ | ɖ | k kʼ | g | q qʼ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l l̥ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ ɹ̥ | j j̥ | ʍ | w | ||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ2 | |||||||||||||
- n assimilates to the place of the following consonant
- In free variation with /ɹ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | eʊ | eɪ | oʊ | aɪ | aʊ | oɪ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Hwautto. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 HwauttoOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Čč/t͡ʃ/ | Ḍḍ/ɖ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Nn/n/1 | Oo/o/ |
| Qq/q/ | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/ | Šš/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Ṭṭ/ʈ/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | Žž/ʒ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- n assimilates to the place of the following consonant
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Writing Whautto
Romanization and the Georgian alphabet
16-Jan-17 23:42
