Thewcian [ZJUG]
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Language type
Engineered Language (Englang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Thewcian
This language is made as a challenge for myself to both get used to unfamiliar phonological distinctions and combinations and to have a wide range of various grammatical distinctions.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||||
| Nasal | m [m̩]1 | n [n̩]2 | ŋ [ŋ̩]3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ | t tʼ | ʈ ʈʼ | k kʼ | q qʼ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | θ | s | ʃ | x | h | ||||||||||||||||||
| Affricate | p̪͡f | t̪͡θ | t͡s | t͡ʃ | k͡x | t͡ɬ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l [l̩]4 | ʎ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ | j | w | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | ʙ | r [r̩]5 | ʀ | |||||||||||||||||||||
- Syllabic when there's no neighboring vowel, allophone of /m/
- Syllabic when there's no neighboring vowel, allophone of /n/
- Syllabic when there's no neighboring vowel, allophone of /ŋ/
- Syllabic when there's no neighboring vowel, allophone of /l/
- Syllabic when there's no neighboring vowel, allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | ɯ | u | ||
| Close-mid | e̞ | ø̞ | o̞ | |||
| Mid | ə̠ [ə̠˞]1 | |||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||
| Open | ɑ̝ | |||||
| Polyphthongs | əj | æw | oj | ɑj | øw | əw | ow | ɑw | øj | ew |
| æj | ej | ɑɻ | æɻ | əə˞ | oə˞ | eə˞ | øə˞ |
- allophone of /ɻ/
Syllable Structure(C)(C)(A)V(A)(C)(C)
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Thewcian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ThewcianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| a/ɑ̝/ | b/ʙ/ | ć/t͡ʃ/ | c/ʃ/ | d/ʈ/ | d'/ʈʼ/ | e/e̞/ | ě/ə̠/ | f/f/ | g/x/ | h/h/ |
| ı/ɯ/ | i/i/ | j/j/ | k/k/ | k'/kʼ/ | l/l/ | m/m/ | ň/ŋ/ | n/n/ | o/o̞/ | p/p/ |
| p'/pʼ/ | q/q/ | q'/qʼ/ | r/r/ | ŕ/ʀ/ | ř/ɻ/ | s/s/ | ś/t͡s/ | t/t/ | t'/tʼ/ | u/u/ |
| w/w/ | x/k͡x/ | y/y/ | ž/t͡ɬ/ | z/θ/ | ź/t̪͡θ/ | ż/ɬ/ | æ/æ/ | ø/ø̞/ | ł/ʎ/ | ƒ/p̪͡f/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
