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Waterspeak {{{nativename}}}
Language Family
Water
Dialects
(Freshwater)
(Saltwater)
Written Forms
(Knotted String)
Location
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Freshwater dialect has shortened syllables? Less 'whale noises' and more 'frog noises'.
Consonants
z (Eng: 'ruse')
ʒ (Eng: 'rouge')
n (Eng: 'run')
ŋ (Eng: 'rung')
Vowels
iː (Eng: 'key')
eɪ (Eng: 'cane')
aɪ (Eng: 'kite')
ɛ (Eng: 'ken')
æ (Eng: 'cat')
ɝː (Eng: 'cur')
ʌ (Eng: 'cult')
ɑː (Eng: 'cop')
aʊ (Eng: 'cow')
ɔɪ (Eng: 'coy')
ɔː (Eng: 'caw')
ʊ (Eng: 'could')
oʊ (Eng: 'cope')
uː (Eng: 'cool')
Stress
Hard to indicate 'stress' underwater, I imagine. Maybe a change in pitch? *whale noises*
Phonotactics
BEWARE OF DIPTHONGS. If there's two vowels next to each other, assume dipthong FIRST.
Duplicated vowels are a shift in pitch/register?
Add the list of forms from the generator, later, lazyass
Morphology
Nouns
Numerative markers? Plural? One-two-many?
Some sort of duplication to indicate plural? The way we have 'I' and then 'I-I' or 'me-me' = 'we'. For longer words, reduplicate the first syllable? Except vowels, so. Hm. Lengthen first syllable? Last syllable? Throw a consonant into the works just for shits?
Case?
Pronouns
Pronouns are genderless
Pronouns exist for person, place, thing, abstract concept
Adjectives
Prepositions
I expect we have some?
Conjunctions
Numbers
Names
Derivational morphology
Syntax
Word order
Verb tenses
To add to the person/number fun-times, the verbs don't conjugate, or only conjugate in certain forms? So essentially the forms would be: 'I walk', 'you walk', 'person walk', 'I-I walk', 'you-you walk', 'person-person walk'. Or swim. Because water.
This would make word order important, at least in relation to subject-verb.
