Pyøza [pyøzä]
It combines Turkish, French, and some vague understanding I have of NatAm polysynthetic languages.
Goals and ideas
- Some noun cases. (I might copy ideas from my last Speedlang thread.)
- Polysynthesis
- Incorporation
- agglutinative but some processes happen at the morphemic border (maybe Celtic style mutations between words too).
- Probably SOV and mostly suffixing
Its phoneme inventories are shown below. This is a consonant inventory I stole from Random Phonemic Inventory thread years ago and have recycled it many times. - This time I added "nasal affricates", which is a old idea of mine. Basically, the nasalization of the consonant is lengthened, making nasal vowels appear only after nasal consonants.
- All consonants but /j ɣ ɾ/ can be geminated and preglottalized. Phonetically, preglottalization is a cluster of the glottal stop and the consonant [ʔt].
- A weak glottal stop also appears as a hiatus filler. Lines of vowels will (hopefully) be frequent.
m n ŋ
mṼ nṼ ŋṼ
p t t͡s k (ʔ)
s x
z ɣ
l ɾ
ʋ j
The vowels can be short or long. The closing (I thank Eldin for terminology) diphthongs are always long. The vowels of the ultimate, stressed, syllable are also always long.
y i u
yø ie uo
ø e o
ä
Phonotactics tries to be simple and conplex simultaneously.
- Onset clusters are not allowed. /ɣ/ and /ɾ/ don't appear word-initially.
. - Clusters between vowels can be quite complex. I'm trying to find out what they could be. There is also the preglottalization mentioned above.
The distribution of /t͡s/ is limited. Most of its realizations result from a historical sound change t -> t͡s /_i . It can though appear in all positions mentioned above because of analogical leveling and loan words.
Zyøra is not tonal. The primary stress falls on the last syllable of the word/phrase. There might though be some metric rules of secondary stresses of longer words.
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