Niwa Constructed Language

Niwa Phonology

Consonant and Vowel Symbols

For each trio, the 1st column represents the historical phoneme, the 2nd column the orthographic symbol, and the 3rd column the phonetic symbol in QAPA.

Vowel Symbols
  Front Central Back
High /i/ i i    
Mid-high     /o/ o o
Mid-low /e/ e E    
Low   /a/ a A\  

Consonant Symbols
  Labial Coronal Dorsal Guttural
Stop Ejective p p p' - t t t' - - k k k' - -
V'celess p - t - - k - ' ' ?
Voiced b b - * d d - - g g - -
Flap Voiced - - r r 4 - - - - -
Trill Voiced - - r - - - - -
Affricate V'celess - - - c c t$) - - - -
Voiced - - - d*) - - - -
Fricative V'celess - f f f s s s x x $ - - q q X f h h
Nasal Voiced m m m - n n n - - n n N - -
Approximant w w w - l l l - y y j - - -

Syllables and Prosody

A syllable is either (C)V, (C)VV, or (C)VC. A coda consonant can be any historical phoneme except /y/, /w/, or /'/.

Accent is one of stress.


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current date: 2010.Dec.12 Sun
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