Cacatoon [NOO]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
Sound samples in Cacatoon
Some sound samples of Cacatoon. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Ini inxaki paka ukuti?
What's wrong with that?
What's wrong with that?
mina ak inja yizanej e le icibi.
I heard a dog at the lake
I heard a dog at the lake
Uma wena tandatu unyaka umuntu hlayi caza, wena yena hlayi qonda.
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Ak wezinca ukunga ngarha ak upahla.
A library is infinity under a roof.
A library is infinity under a roof.
Nooma indoda ukuba kumele yisho, "mina le inkosi," hlayi iqiso inkosi.
Any man who must say, "I am the king," is no true king.
Any man who must say, "I am the king," is no true king.
Le izwini ngapa wami irhanda hlayi liqi.
The voices in my head aren't real
The voices in my head aren't real
Language family relationships
[view] About BantuThe Bantu languages are a large branch of the Niger-Congo languages, which began to expand across most of southern and eastern Africa at approximately 400 AD due to the development of iron metallurgy among the West African Proto-Bantu speakers. There...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | h | ||||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | ʀ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click | ǀ | ǃ | ǁ | ǂ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||
| Close-mid | o o: | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | |||
| Open | a a: | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Cacatoon. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 CacatoonOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/ǀ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
| Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ǃ/ | Rr/r/ |
| RH rh/ʀ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ǁ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
