usill/lang/lewa.org

L'ewa

• Info
• Spelling & Phonology
  • Consonants
  • Vowels
  • Phonotactics
    • Syllable structure
    • Stress pattern
    • Word initial consonants
    • Mid-word consonants
    • Word final consonants
  • Spelling rules
• Grammar
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Lexicon

Info

⁄l.ʔɛ.wa⁄

Natively known as: L'ewa

This is the language of the Kala (a race of anthropomorphic orca-people) in Usill.

Spelling & Phonology

Consonants

Consonant inventory: ⁄d g h j k l m n p q s t w ʃ ʒ ʔ ʙ̥⁄

Manner⁄Place	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labio-velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Stop	p	t d			k g		q	ʔ
Fricative		s	ʃ ʒ					h
Approximant				j		w
Trill	ʙ̥
Lateral approximant		l

Vowels

Vowel inventory: ⁄a au i o oi u ua ue uo ai ɛ ɛi⁄
Diphthongs: au, oi, ua, ue, uo, ai, ɛi

	Front	Back
High	i	u
High-mid		o
Low-mid	ɛ
Low	a

Phonotactics

Syllable structure

(C)(C)V(C)

Stress pattern

Initial — stress is on the first syllable

Word initial consonants

d, g, h, j, k, kl, l, m, n, p, pl, q, s, sn, sp, st, t, ts, w, ʃ, ʒ, ʔ, ʙ̥

Mid-word consonants

d, g, h, j, jk, k, kn, l, lk, m, n, nh, nl, ns, p, pl, q, s, sp, t, tg, tk, tw, w, ʃ, ʒ, ʔ, ʙ̥

Word final consonants

d, g, k, l, m, n, p, q, s, ʃ, ʒ, ʙ̥

Spelling rules

Pronunciation	Spelling
j	y
ɛ	e
ʃ	x
ʒ	z
ʔ	'
ʙ̥	b

Grammar

TODO: This

High level ideas:

• nounless (see Salishan languages or Lojban)
• Verb-Oblique-Subject-Object (Gives to you a book)
• fairly logical
• was given by the gods
• seximal number system

Morphology

Syntax

Lexicon

Word	Definition
l'ewa	is a language
tel	is a/the ocean
sel	is the sun
kala	is an orca