Rhodes Arabic [RHR]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Rhodes Arabic
A dialect of the Arabic language spoken by a minority of speakers on the Greek island of Rhodes, mostly in rural areas. It's speakers are predominantly Christian, although with sizable Muslim and Jewish minorities, the latter of which use a sub-dialect of their own. It's written in the Greek alphabet and features strong Greek and Ottoman Turkish influences.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m [m̥]1 | n [n̥]2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | (p) | b | k | g | ʔˤ | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | (v) | θ θˤ | ð ðˤ | s sˤ | z zˤ | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | ħ | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l [l̥]3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | [ʍ]4 | w | |||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r [r̥]5 | |||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /w/
- allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | u: | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e: | |||||||||
| Mid | ə ə: | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | [ɔ:]1 | ||||||||
| Near-open | æ: | |||||||||
| Open | [ɑ]2 | |||||||||
- allophone of /æ:/
- allophone of /ə/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Rhodes Arabic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Rhodes ArabicOrthography | ||||||||
| Ħħ/ħ/ | Αα/ə/ | Ᾱᾱ/æ:/ | Α' α'/ə:/ | ΑΙ αι/e:/ | Ββ/b/ | Γγ/ɣ/ | Δδ/ð/ | Δ' δ'/ðˤ/ |
| Εε/ɛ/ | Ζζ/z/ | Ζ' ζ'/zˤ/ | Ζ̌ ζ̌/ʒ/ | Ηη/i:/ | Θθ/θ/ | Θ' θ'/θˤ/ | Ιι/ɪ/, /j/ | Κκ/k/ |
| Λλ/l/ | Μμ/m/ | Νν/n/ | ΝΚ νκ/g/ | Οο/ʊ/ | ΟΥ ου/u:/ | Ππ/p/1 | Ρρ/r/ | Σσ/s/ |
| Σ' σ'/sˤ/ | Σ̌ σ̌/ʃ/ | ΤΣ̌ τσ̌/t͡ʃ/ | Υυ/v/2 | Φφ/f/ | Χχ/x/ | Ωω[ɔ:] | Ϙϙ/ʔˤ/ | Ϝϝ/w/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||
- loan words only
- loan words only
