Puan language
This article is about the language spoken in Kyawcenni Pua not to be confused with Toki Pua a language spoken in Pua or Languages of Pua which lists the languages present in the Pua Region.
Puan | |
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Language family | Isolate |
Writing system | Puan Script? |
Official status | |
Spoken in | Kyawcenni Pua |
Speaker | |
Endonym | ??? |
Exonym | Puan, Pyuwan[1] |
Technical information | |
Language code | PYW |
The Puan or Pyuwan language /ˈpju.(w)ən/ (Kyawcenni: Bêde Pyuwane) is a language isolate spoken in eastern Archipelagia in the Kyawcenni territory of Kyawcenni Pua.
The name Puan was used because nobody else had used that name, so Kyawcenni Puans just kinda stole it, lmao.
Not much is known about the language and it is still being researched. The most active researcher of the Puan language is Marcy Sheikah. The Puan script was supposed to be the writing system for the language, but it has since been scrapped because of falsely assumed facts about the language's phonology or something.
Phonology
Consonants
The romanization written in angle brackets includes both capitalizations of the letter.
Labial | Dental | Alveolar (Hard) | Alveolar (Soft) | Postalveolar/Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
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Nasals | m <م Mm> | n <ن, Nn> | nʲ <ني, NJ nȷ> | |||||
Plosives | (p <پ, Pp>)¹ b <ب, Bb> |
t <ت, Tt> d <د, Dd> |
tʲ <تي, TJ tȷ> | tʃ <چ, Ċċ> dʒ <ج, Ġġ> |
k <ك, Kk> ɡ <ق, Gg> |
q <ه, ꟼq> | ʔ <ء, Qϱ> | |
Fricatives | f <ف, Ff> | θ <ث, Cc> ð <ذ, Ðđ> |
s <س, Ss> z <ز, Zz> |
sʲ <سي, SJ sȷ> | ʃ <ش, Ṡṡ> ʒ <ژ, Żż> |
χ <خ, Xx> | ħ~h <ح, Ħħ> ʕ~ɦ <ع, Hh> | |
Trills | r <ر, Rr> | ʀ <غ, Ṙṙ> | ||||||
Liquids | l <ل, Ll> | lʲ <ليLJ lȷ> | j <ي, Jj> | w <و, Ww> |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i <i>, iː <ī/y> | u <u>, uː <ū> | |
Mid | ə <e>, əː <ē> | o <o>, o: <ō> | |
Low | æ <a> | ɑː <ā> |
¹Only found in Kyawcenni loanwords
Puan Script
Puan was planned to be written in the eponymous Puan Script, which was designed by Kyawcenni Quing Marcy I and was inspired by the Xadwg Script.
Sample text
TBD
According to all known laws of aviation, there's no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ “Pyuwan” is the Kyawcenni name of the language. This spelling is sometimes used in English to distinguish it from the Puan people.