Zwolur [ZWOLU]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersZwolur is spoken by a population of around 1,000,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Zwolur
Zwolur is spoken on the islands of Zwalar, somewhere in the mid-west Arabian Sea. It had a lot of influence from multiple Arabic dialects such as Egyptian and Levantine. It follows a much stricter tri-consonantal root system, and has relatively simple tenses. (Almost) All vocab comes from Arabic.
Sample of Zwolur[view] lam fikura: "sa kilama: "la hitatu fatar bil qanafek.""
I never thought I would have to tell someone not to put a muffin in their nose.[view all texts]
I never thought I would have to tell someone not to put a muffin in their nose.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | b | t | d | k | g | q1 | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | z | ʃ | ʕ | h | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||
- geminated 'q'
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | |||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
- Used in specific places, depends on dialect, allophone of /e/
Syllable StructureSCSVSCS
Only one S per syllable section.
Only one S per syllable section.
Stress informationNo defined stress.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Zwolur. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ZwolurOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| ā ālef /a:/ | a ɛay /a/ | b ba /b/ | c cin /ʃ/ | d da /d/ | e wel /e/ | f fa /f/ | g gim /g/ | h ha /h/ |
| i yiy /i/ | ī yīya /i:/ | k kaf /k/ | l la /l/ | m mim /m/ | n nun /n/ | o loɛ /o/ | q qa /ʔ/ | r ra /ɾ/ |
| s sin /s/ | t ta /t/ | u yuy /u/ | ū wūy /u:/ | w waw /w/ | y ya /j/ | z za /z/ | ɛ ɛejn /ʕ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
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