Wụúgụ

Wụūgụ (Eng: Wugu /wu.gu/, Yowugu: yōwụūgụ /ˌjo˥ˈwuː˨˦.gu˩/) is a language spoken by the Yōoŋwẹ (/ˈjoː˥˧.ŋwe˩/, lit. river-people), who live on a major river delta. It is the official language of the TBD:Kingdom Name Kingdom, and the primary language of the city of TBD:City Name (at the mouth of the river), with approximately 75% of the city's population speaking it as a first language.

The writing system of Wụūgụ is an Abugida. As per most languages in TBD:Setting Name it is written top-to-bottom, in columns that go from left to right.

Wụūgụ is strongly clause chaining, utilising a wide variety of converbs as well as switch reference markers.

It's nouns are divided into 4 noun classes - Avian, Aquatic, Misc. Animate, Inanimate. People are part of the Avian class - TBD if this is just cultural/religious, or if this has some broader implications for the worldbuilding.

History and Setting
See Wugu Diachronica for the method I'm using for generating the linguistic history.

Dialects
Wụūgụ has 3 major dialects:


 * River kingdom dialect
 * Lake dialect
 * Mountain dialect

The documentation here will focus mostly on the River kingdom dialect.

Other topics
Wugu Names have two parts: a birth order name (chosen from a small common set of names), followed by a given name (which may consist of 1-3 words). Even if a given name has multiple words in it, it still counts as a single name (and thus all the words have to be said to identify the person). There are no family names.

The Wugu Calendar is a lunar calendar, where any date can be expressed without using a number.