Wednesday, 15 December 2010

Hwong Zheng Phonology

Hwong Zheng, the Tsang language, is a syllable based language; most words consist out of one or two syllables that follow a consistent pattern:

(C) (J) V (N)

C
p, t, d, k ,g, h
p, t, d, k, g, h

r, f, l, m, s, z
r, f, l, m, s, z

sh, zh, th, ts, dz, tsh, dzh
ʃ, ʒ, θ, ts, dz, tʃ, dʒ

J
y, w
j, w

V
e, a, o, oo, i, ie, uu, ou, eu
ɛ, a, ɔ, o, ɪ, i, y, u, ø

N
n, ng, y
n, ŋ, j

Standard romanisation above, IPA below.

There are no conjugations or affices, nor any way to distict a verb from a noun without looking at its context.

3 comments:

  1. Cool =) There's something about the look of Hwong Zheng that I really like (I read your story too =). What are your influences? It reminds me of Mandarin (though I have very limited knowledge of Mandarin!).

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  2. Thanks.
    (And you haven't seen the conscript yet.)

    The main influence would be Korean, or actually Hangeul (the Korean script), as it started as a script and then turned into a fullblown language.

    And although I had some Japanese classes, my knowledge of Asian languages is very scarse as well; it's mostly just imagination etc.

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  3. Sounds really cool; can't wait to see the conscript! I haven't done any of those yet; it's super-intimidating to me for some reason. I subscribed to your blog for updates =)

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