Character set, writing system, and grammar in brief for Yarŭ, the Ru language. For definitions, pronunciation, and a more detailed discussion of grammar, see this post. (Note that this is an entire language. A few of the words--gasp!--are dirty. You have been warned.)
I colored the ergative particles red on this version, since they don't behave quite the same as the other regular particles.
Aside: We don't actually have a word for "car". Those don't exist in Ru; nor does anything even remotely anthropomorphic. (Don't expect "chair" or "pants" either.) But if we did have a word for "car", it would be wílào.
I colored the ergative particles red on this version, since they don't behave quite the same as the other regular particles.
Aside: We don't actually have a word for "car". Those don't exist in Ru; nor does anything even remotely anthropomorphic. (Don't expect "chair" or "pants" either.) But if we did have a word for "car", it would be wílào.
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Both. There are five tones, but some of the "vowels" are also polyphonic for certain tones--though the number of vowel-tone combinations exhibiting polyphony varies by dialect. See the descriptions of vowels and tones in the description in this linked post for more details.
As avian speech goes, Rŭ are somewhat conservative in our use of polyphony. Birds tend to use fancy wideband sounds more often in cluttered environments like forests, whereas Rŭ are enormous by songbird standards and spend more time out in the open. What you tend to see in birds adapted to such environments is that the favor narrowband sounds (think the squeaks of gulls and raptors.) So Yarŭ ends up sorta in between, but tilted toward the latter.
As avian speech goes, Rŭ are somewhat conservative in our use of polyphony. Birds tend to use fancy wideband sounds more often in cluttered environments like forests, whereas Rŭ are enormous by songbird standards and spend more time out in the open. What you tend to see in birds adapted to such environments is that the favor narrowband sounds (think the squeaks of gulls and raptors.) So Yarŭ ends up sorta in between, but tilted toward the latter.
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