Impytish language

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Impytish
Wi Ĭ́nh
Pronunciation[wi˧˧ in˧˥]
Native to Kingdom of Impy
Native speakers
None
Austroasiatic
  • Impytic
    • Impytish
Official status
Official language in
Kingdom of Impy


Impytish (Impytish: Wi Ĭ́nh, Vietnamese: Tiếng Ím) is an Austroasiatic language originating from Vietnamese, it is the national and official language of Impy. Impytish language is in development.

Like many other languages in Southeast Asia and East Asia, Impytish is an analytic language with phonemic tone.

Vocabulary, reading, accents,... are severely affected by Vietnamese.

Phonology

Vowels

Front Center Back
Centering ia/iê [iə̯] ưa/ươ [ɨə̯] ua/uô [uə̯]
Close i/y [iː]

ĭ [i]

ư [ɨ] u [uː]

ŭ [u]

Close Mid/

Mid

ê [e] ơ [əː]

â [ə]

ô [o]
Close Open/

Open

e [ɛː]

ĕ [ɛ]

a [aː]

ă [a]

o [ɔː]

ŏ [ɔ]

Front and central vowels (i, ĭ, ê, e, ĕ, ư, â, ơ, ă, a) are unrounded, whereas the back vowels (u, ŭ, ô, o, ŏ) are rounded. The vowels â [ə] and ă [a] are pronounced very short, much shorter than the other vowels. Thus, ơ and â are basically pronounced the same except that ơ [əː] is of normal length while â [ə] is short – the same applies to the vowels long a [aː] and short ă [a], same to long e [ɛː] and short ĕ [ɛ],...

The centering diphthongs are formed with only the three high vowels (i, ư, u). They are generally spelled as ia, ưa, ua when they end a word and are spelled iê, ươ, uô, respectively, when they are followed by a consonant.

In addition to single vowels (or monophthongs) and centering diphthongs, Vietnamese has closing diphthongs and triphthongs. The closing diphthongs and triphthongs consist of a main vowel component followed by a shorter semivowel offglide /j/ or /w/. There are restrictions on the high offglides: /j/ cannot occur after a front vowel (i, ĭ, ê, e, ĕ) nucleus and /w/ cannot occur after a back vowel (u, ŭ, ô, o, ŏ) nucleus.

The letter ĭ is always pronounced /i/ sound in every case, and i is sometimes pronounced /ɪ/ sound if followed by nh, ch, ñ, ng, nghc, nn, m, n, j.

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Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Post-

alveolar

Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m [m] n [n] nh/ñ [ɲ] ng/ngh/nn/nghc [ŋ]
Stop Tenuis p [p] t [t] tr/j [ʈ] ch/tch/tr(sometimes)/

j(sometimes)/jch [c]

c/k/q [k]
Aspirated qh/

ph(sometimes) [pʰ]

th [tʰ] 'kh [kʰ]
implosive b [ɓ] đ/dh [ɗ]
Fricative voiceless ph/f [f] 'th [θ] x/'c [s] sh [ʃ] s/jx [s] kh/x' [x] h [h]
voiced v [v] th' [ð] z/gi [z] j(sometimes, slangs)/zh [ʒ] g/gh [ɣ]
Approximant l [l] y/i/d [j] w/u/o [w]
Rhotic r [r]

Letter j in Impytish slangs always pronounced /ʒ/ sound, or /c/ in the end.

Specials

Ü always sounded [us].

Silent letters

Silent Ă

Ă is not pronounced when in middle in consonants in long words, ex: nghălê (pronounced as nghê)

Silent C

C is not pronounced when behind ngh.

Silent E

E is not pronounced when behind consonants in the end of the word.

Silent H

H is not pronounced when standing in front n, and e, ê, ĕ, i, ĭ, y behind wh.

Silent J

J is not pronounced when standing in front ch.

Silent L

L is not pronounced when behind vowels.

Silent R

R is not pronounced when behind vowels.

Silent T

T is not pronounced when standing in front ch.

Silent W

W is not pronounced when a, ă, â, o, ô, ơ, ŏ u, ư, ŭ behind wh.

Silent X

X is not pronounced sometimes when standing in behind u.

Grammar

Impytish is a semi-isolated language. Grammatical relations are mainly expressed through the system of adjectives and the arrangement of word order in the sentence. The most common word order in Impytish is subject - predicate - object (SVO). However, the order in the sentence can in some cases be arranged according to the linguistic style of the topic, so that a sentence can be in the Object - Subject - Predicate (OSV) order.

Impytish has 5 tenses:

  • Present
  • Past
  • Instant Past
  • Future
  • Near Future

Words

Impytish vocabulary has two main parts: pure Impytish words and borrowed words. There are also mixed-race words that are the result of a combination of pure Impytish and foreign elements. Because Impytish has so many pure Impytish words, silent letters and their sounds were many difference from Vietnamese such as θ or ʒ, so the chance of being classified as their own branch of the Austroasiatic language family.

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