Zuhm [ZHM]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Zuhm
Old jokelang idea turned into artistic experiment. No Plosives Allowed.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ɳ]1 | ɲ | [ŋ]2 | ɴ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]3 | [β]4 | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ʂ | ʐ | [ɕ]5 | [ʑ]6 | ç | ʝ | x | ɣ | χ | ʁ | ħ | ʕ | h | [ɦ]7 | ||||
| Lateral approximant | l | [ɭ]8 | ʎ | ʟ | [ɫ]9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | [ʍ]10 | w | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Before Retroflex and Alveolo-Palatial fricatives, allophone of /n/
- Before or after other Velar C, allophone of /ɴ/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /v/
- allophone of /ç/
- allophone of /ʝ/
- When following a voiced C and/or prior to a voiced mid-tone vowel, allophone of /h/
- Directly adjacent to another retroflex C, allophone of /l/
- Directly after back vowels and before some C, allophone of /l/
- Directly adjacent to unvoiced C or when unstressed, allophone of /w/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i᷅ ì | ɯ ɯ̀ | u u᷅ ù | |||
| Mid | e̞ è̞ | [ə] [ə̥] | o̞ ò̞ | |||
| Open-mid | ɜ ɜ᷅ ɜ̀ | |||||
| Open | a a᷅ à [ḁ]1 | |||||
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Zuhm. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ZuhmOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a/a/, [ḁ] | c/ç/, [ɕ] | d/ð/ | e/e̞/ | é/ɜ/ | f/f/, [ɸ] | g/ɣ/ | h/h/, [ɦ]1 | i/i/ | j/ʝ/, [ʑ] |
| k/x/ | l/l/, [ɫ]2, [ɭ]3 | ll/ʎ/ | lš/ɬ/ | lž/ɮ/ | m/m/ | n/n/, [ɳ]4 | nn/ɲ/ | nq/ɴ/, [ŋ]5 | o/o̞/ |
| q/ʁ/ | qh/ʕ/ | r/ɹ/ | š/ʃ/ | ṡ/ʂ/ | s/s/ | t/θ/ | u/u/ | ú/ɯ/ | v/v/, [β] |
| w/w/, [ʍ]6 | x/χ/ | xk/ħ/ | y/j/ | ż/ʐ/ | z/z/ | ž/ʒ/ | ł/ʟ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- When following a voiced C and/or prior to a voiced mid-tone vowel
- Directly after back vowels and before some C
- Directly adjacent to another retroflex C
- Before Retroflex and Alveolo-Palatial fricatives
- Before or after other Velar C
- Directly adjacent to unvoiced C or when unstressed
