Wadiwayan

Wadiwayan (Wadiwayan: Dyara Wadiwaya [ˌd͡ʒa.rɐ.wɐ.di.ˈwa.jɐ]) is an Ama-Siwenean language spoken in the nation of Wadiwaya, also being an important language in Banuahari, Srong Tsag, and Nunyah. It is written in the Uwanakam, a descendant of the Old Wadiwayan script standardized by the monk Pésuanakam under the auspices of Ayuyuwana around 300 years ago.
As a member of the Ama-Siwenean language family, Wadiwayan is closely related to the Banua’hari language, enabling speakers of either language to be able to pick up the spoken form of the other quite easily. The similarities of these sister languages are obfuscated in the formal register (Réyan) of the language, however, with Wadiwayan having many loanwords and turns of phrases adopted from Isuyan, a classical language of the bay and cousin of Wadiwayan.
Wadiwayan is an agglutinative language wherever it features morphology, with morphological processes not being heavily featured in the first place except in the conjugation of verbs and derivation of words from roots. The verbs of Wadiwayan, unusually, have an inherent tense, either past or present, which can be reversed with a special inverter suffix. Adjectives and adverbs do not truly exist as word classes in Wadiwayan, instead having their roles fulfilled either by plain nouns and verbs or derivations of noun and verb roots.
== History ==
Wadiwayan's oldest common ancestor with the other Ama-Siwenean languages, proto-Ama-Siwenean (henceforth PAS) developed in the bay around 4000 years ago, mostly in southern Ama. PAS began diversifying into the Isuyan and Banuahari-Wadiwayan branches 1000 years afterward, with speakers of proto-Isuyan migrating to Siwene and the north, and proto-Banuahari-Wadiwayan speakers populating the rest of Ama. 
=== Standardisation (326 ya) ===
=== Modern Usage ===
Wadiwayan is the native language of most citizens of Wadiwaya, except for those belonging to a different linguistic group (e.g. Banuahari speakers). Among native speakers, it sees consistent everyday colloquial use alongside formal use. While not used as extensively among them, Wadiwayan is still majorly important among non-native speakers who live in Wadiwaya, being used as a lingua franca among the diverse linguistic groups in the nation and merchants from other nations, also being essentially required for citizens to hold any kind of government position. Wadiwayan is also the liturgical language of Wadi-Wadi, the national religion of Wadiwaya.
== Phonology ==
Wadiwayan has 21 consonant phonemes across 4 different places of articulation.
Wadiwayan Consonants
~ 	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal 	m 	n 	ɲ 	ŋ
Unvoiced Stop 	p 	t 	tʃ 	k
Voiced Stop 	b 	d 	dʒ 	g
Aspirated Stop	pʰ* 	tʰ* 	 	kʰ*
Fricative 	 	s 	ʃ 	x ~ h
Approximant 	w 	l 	j 	
Rhotic 	 	r 	 	
*The aspirated consonants are completely merged with the regular unvoiced stops in colloquial speech.
Wadiwayan has 6 vowels, with vowel reduction mostly being limited to /a/ being realized as [ɐ] in unstressed and closed syllables. Rarely, /e/ is pronounced as a diphthong /aĭ/, an overcorrection reflecting a historical shift from Old Wadiwayan /ai/ > /e/.
Wadiwayan Vowels
~ 	Front	Central	Back
Close 	i 	 	u
Middle	e 	ə 	o
Open 	a ~ ɐ	 	
=== Writing ===
Wadiwayan is written in the Uwanakam (lit. "letters"), an abugida descended from the Old Wadiwayan script, itself descended from the Isuyan logography. The below chart illustrates the graphemes and pronunciation of the Uwanakam.
===== Romanization =====
In the Latin script, Wadiwayan consonants are written as follows. The vowels are otherwise pronounced as in Malay, with <e> being pronounced /ə/ and <é> being /e/.
Romanization of Wadiwayan Consonats
 	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal 	m 	n 	ny 	ng
Unvoiced Stop 	p 	t 	ty 	k
Voiced Stop 	b 	d 	dy 	g
Aspirated Stop	ph 	th 	 	kh
Fricative 	 	s 	sy 	h
Approximant 	w 	l 	y 	
Rhotic 	 	r 	 	
== Grammar ==
=== Nouns ===
=== Verbs ===
=== Particles ===
==== Comparative ====
== Vocabulary ==
== Sample Text ==
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