Swuntsim

Sfətsiv/Lexicon

Sfətsiv/Swadesh list

Swuntsim
Sfətsiv
Pronunciation	[/sfətsiv/]
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Extinct	500dd
Language family	Tsimulh-Naquic Swuntsim
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qnq

Sfətsiv (pronunciation: /sfətsiv/) is an modern Tsimulh language. It is the vernacular language of the Adhəchwə people.

It's inspired by Lushootseed and Welsh.

Diachronical sketch

• i u ə a il ul əl al > at first i ü ə a ẽ ũ õ ã > then i ü ə a e(n) u(n) o(n) a(n) (kill nasalization before fricatives and word-finally)
• q qʷ > ŋ ŋʷ > n m
• gʷ > w when not word initial.
• sb sd > zv zd
• xʷ > f
• ʔC > C: (geminate)
• /ʔb ʔd/ > /b d/
• dzəpəč šə ʔusaqʷ ʔəsəqʷəb tuǰəltxʷ = the living fish swims in water
  • Zəpətj ʔusansj ʔəsoməv tüdjonf
• σüches = mother; toches = father
• tüdjo = water
• dbic = house
• σüʔən, tolitj = woman, man
• Lə-toches bicf = My father is at home.
• Some clusters are broken up to impose sonority hierarchy
• üvC > uuC

Phonology

Consonants

Swuntsim consonants

		Labial	Dental		Palatal	Velar		Laryngeal	Glottal
			central	lateral		plain	lab'zed
Nasal		m m	n n
Stop	tenuis	p p	t t			c k	cw kʷ		ʔ ʔ
	voiced	b b	d d			(g g)	gw gʷ
Fricative	voiceless	f f	s s	σ ɬ	sj ʃ	ch χ	chw χʷ		h h
	voiced	v v	dh ð z z
Affricate	tenuis		ts ts	ξ tɬ	tj tʃ
	voiced				dj dʒ
Approximant					y j		w w	l ɴ̆

gw, chw become g, ch before rounded vowels /y u o/; g is an allophone of gw before /y u o/.

Geminates are allowed and are rendered by doubling (for digraphs, doubling the first consonant)

Vowels

i ü u e ə o å a /i y u e ə o ɔ a/ + long vowels. No diphthongs, tho.

Stress

???

Grammar

-sj: Definite suffix?

-s: genitive

-s: past tense

-s- is often inserted between nouns in compounds.