Nyano [NYNO]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nyano
Heavily West African-inspired, moderately analytic language with grammatical tones, a glottalised series and topic prominence.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | ||||||||
| Nasal | m m̰ | n n̰ | ɲ ɲ̰ | ŋ ŋ̰ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | ᵐb | t | ⁿd | k | ᵑg | ||||||||||
| Fricative | ⁿv | s | ⁿz | x | [χ]1 | |||||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡ʃ]2 | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l l̰ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j j̰ [j̰̃] [j̃]3 | w w̰ | ||||||||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||||||||||
- allophone of /x/ in free variation with [x]
- realisation of the sequence /tj/
- allophone of /ɲ/ in intervocalic position
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | î: ǐ: í ì | û: ǔ: ú ù | ||||
| Mid | ê̞: ě̞: é̞ è̞ | ô̞: ǒ̞: ó̞ ò̞ | ||||
| Open | ä̂: ä᷈̌: ä́ ä̀ | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nyano. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NyanoOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ä̀/ | Bb/ᵐb/ | BH bh/ɓ/ | Dd/ⁿd/ | DH dh/ɗ/ | Ee/è̞/ | Gg/ᵑg/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/ì/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Ĺĺ/l̰/ | Mm/m/ | Ḿḿ/m̰/ | Nn/n/ | Ńń/n̰/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | ŃG ńg/ŋ̰/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | ŃY ńy/ɲ̰/ | Oo/ò̞/ | Pp/p/ |
| Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ù/ | Vv/ⁿv/ | Ww/w/ | Ẃẃ/w̰/ | Yy/j/ | Ýý/j̰/ | Zz/ⁿz/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
