Blabwa

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I. Phonology

I.1 Vowels

(Notice that all vowels are rounded.)

Practical Orthography

X-Sampa

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ü	u
Mid	e	ö	o

	Front	Central	Back
High	y	}	u
Mid	2	3\	O

I.2 Consonants

Practical Orthography

X-Sampa

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Velar
Voiced Plosive	b b^o b^l b^r		g^o
Vcless Plosive	p p^o p^l p^r		k^o
Voiced Fricative	β	v v^o v^l v^r	γ^o
Vcless Fricative	φ	f f^o f^l f^r	x^o
Nasal	m m^o m^l m^r	μ μ^o μ^l μ^r
Glide	w w^l w^r

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Velar
Voiced Plosive	b b_w b_l b_G		g_w
Vcless Plosive	p p_w p_l p_G		k_w
Voiced Fricative	B	v v_w v_l v_G	G_w
Vcless Fricative	p\	f f_w f_l f_G	x_w
Nasal	m m_w m_l m_G	F F_w F_l F_G
Glide	w w_l w_G

I.3 Remarks

Word template is (C)V(CV)*(C).

II. Nominal Morphology

Case Infixes

Nom	-m^o-
Acc	-f^l-
Dat	-b-
Gen	-μ^r-
Loc	-p^o-

Number Infixes

Zero	-uwu-
Singular	-o-
Dual	-ib^oi-
Odd Prime	-ü-
Odd Composite	-öv^lö-

Realis/Irrealis Prefixes

	Topic	Non-topic
Realis	-	e(γ^o)-
Irrealis	x^o(ö)-	o(v^l)-

III. Verbal Morphology

Tense Circumfixes

Present	(μ^l) - (ö)μ^o(e)
Non-present	wi(β) - (o)x^ooμ

Aspect Prefixes

Connected	umu-
Disconnected	p^li-

Span Suffixes

Bounded	-m^rö
Unbounded	-buv^lo

IV. Syntax

Basic OVS word order.

V. Examples

eγ^o

omo

f^lo

p^oug^ou

REAL.NONTOP

elephant

ACC

elephant

(an elephant)

umu

pük^o

öμ^oe

m^rö

CONN

PRES

bite

PRES

BDD

(are biting)

b^ro

m^o

ib^oi

b^oob^oo

REAL.TOP

frog

NOM

DUAL

frog

(the two frogs)

The two frogs are biting an elephant.

eγ^oomof^lop^oug^ou umupük^oöμ^oem^rö b^rom^oib^oib^oob^oo. The two frogs are biting an elephant.
ov^lomof^lop^oug^ou umupük^oöμ^oem^rö x^oöb^rom^oib^oib^oob^oo. The two frogs would be biting an elephant.
ov^lomof^lop^oug^ou umuwipük^oox^oom^rö x^oöb^roμ^oib^oib^oob^oo. The two frogs will bite an elephant.
b^roμ^rob^oob^oo. one frog (genitive, realis)
x^oöb^rom^oib^oib^oob^oo. two frogs (nominative, irrealis)

VI. Sample Lexicon

Nouns

The dash indicates the infixation location for case/number.

b^ro - b^oob^oo: frog/toad/lizard; pear
omo - p^oug^ou: elephant; banana; long, coarse hair growing from ear or nostril

Verbs

pük^o: bite

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