#- ---** (language of the Lake People)
Writing System
This language has no alphabet.
Phonology
Every word is sepperated by a sharp inhale.
Words are often strung together to form Nouns. Such as names, and objects. Such as *_*__ for Buildtool, or Hammer. or *-__ for Hunttool, or Spear.
Morphology
Making the noises in a higher pitch makes them feminine, or important.
Making the noises in a lower pitch makes them masculine, or goal-related.
Vocabulary
**-- = old peoples
**## = people (general)
# = danger
= lake
** = people (specific)
* = person (specific)
*_ = person (general)
#- = language
*-- = hunter
*#* = gatherer
*# = gather
*- = hunt
*_* = builder
*_*_ = build
__ = tool
!*** = elder matriarch
? = male elder
! = female elder
### = blue
#* = green
#** = yellow
#*** = red
#_#_ = dead (general)
*#_#_ = dead (specific)
#_ = death (concept)
!!! = witch/magic
Phonetics
* = click
= sharp bite
# = Hhuh
_ = deep-throated grunt
! = high sing-esq note
? = low sing-esq note
Spoken by
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