Besa [BESA]
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Besa
Besa [ɓɪsa]
BesaBesa [ɓɪsa]
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Language type
Other
Species
Human/humanoid
About Besa
A language of whispers - not a single sound in this language is voiced or toned.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m̥ | n̥ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | θ | s | ʃ | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l1 | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
| Implosive | (ɓ̥) | |||||||||||||||
- very rarely used
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i̥ | u̥ | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ̥ | |||||
| Open-mid | ɔ̥ | |||||
| Open | ḁ | ɑ̥ | ||||
Syllable StructureCV(C)
OtherEverything is whispered.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Besa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 BesaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Áá/ɑ̥/ | Aa/ḁ/ | Bb/ɓ̥/1 | Ee/ɪ̥/ | Ff/f/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i̥/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/2 | Mm/m̥/ |
| Nn/n̥/ | Oo/ɔ̥/ | Pp/p/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Uu/u̥/ | Yy/ʎ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- loan words only
- very rarely used
