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'''Wyacker''' (natively ''wi:akkarung''; Thackish: ''Wỵạckẹr wụttle'') is a head-final language inspired by Tamil, Pama-Nyungan, Polynesian, Danish, Arabic, and German. | '''Wyacker''' (natively ''wi:akkarung''; Thackish: ''Wỵạckẹr wụttle'') is a head-final language inspired by Tamil, Pama-Nyungan, Polynesian, Danish, Arabic, and German. It belongs to the Pulchric family. | ||
== Phonology == | == Phonology == | ||
=== Consonants === | === Consonants === | ||
Revision as of 15:54, 5 December 2024
Wyacker (natively wi:akkarung; Thackish: Wỵạckẹr wụttle) is a head-final language inspired by Tamil, Pama-Nyungan, Polynesian, Danish, Arabic, and German. It belongs to the Pulchric family.
Phonology
Consonants
m /m/ mx /mˤ/ nx /n̪ˤ/ n /n/ ng /ŋ/ ngx /ɴ/ p /p˭~b/ px /pˤ/ tq /t̪˭ˤ/ t /t˭~ɾ/ k /k˭~x/ kx /q/ w /ʋ/ d /ð̞ˤ/ r /ʁ~ɐ̯/ rr /ʀː/ l /l/ lx /dental emph. L)/ h /h/ (d is lowered Arabic Zaa')
| Labial | Coronal | Palatal | Dorsal | Laryngeal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | emph. | plain | emph. | plain | emph. | ||||
| Nasal | m /m/ | M /mʶ/ | n /n/ | N /nʶ/ | ng /ŋ/ | NG /ɴ/ | |||
| Stop | p /p/ | P /pʶ/ | t /t/ | T /tʶ/ | k /k/ | q /q/ | |||
| Fricative | h /h/ | ||||||||
| Trill/Tap | |||||||||
| Approximant | w /w/ | l /l/ | L /lʶ/ | y /j/ | |||||
Vowels
i /i/ ī /iː/ e /e/ ē /eː/ a /a/ ā /aː/ o /o/ ō /oː/ u /u/ ū /uː/ ei /aj/ au /aw/ By default, these vowels sound like [i e æ o u ɛj ɛw]; in RTR environments, [ɪ ɛ ɑ ɔ ʊ ɑj ɑw]. An RTR envionment is any vowel adjacent to an emphatic consonant (a cluster containing d, r, or rr).
Phonotactics
Initial emphatics are not allowed. Vowel hiatus is.