Ngigu [NGIGU]
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Language type
A priori
Awating
LutyaSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Ngigu
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Ngigu is an Umic language in the Ngerupic family spoken by about 268,000 people in Akulanen.
Grammar v. 1.2 is out! Click here (but the background is somewhat OOD so this page is more accurate in that regard)
Lexicon here (for now)
Script fonting in the works...
Features:
- A system of versatile affixes derived from Proto-Uemaua that can be used as relational verbs as well as incorporated as body parts
- A complex noun class system, characteristic of the Ngerupic languages
- A wacky sandhi system
- A sociolinguistic phenomenon involving younger speakers
And more!
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Ngigu is an Umic language in the Ngerupic family spoken by about 268,000 people in Akulanen.
Grammar v. 1.2 is out! Click here (but the background is somewhat OOD so this page is more accurate in that regard)
Lexicon here (for now)
Script fonting in the works...
Features:
- A system of versatile affixes derived from Proto-Uemaua that can be used as relational verbs as well as incorporated as body parts
- A complex noun class system, characteristic of the Ngerupic languages
- A wacky sandhi system
- A sociolinguistic phenomenon involving younger speakers
And more!
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✨ Ngigu is now a 2022 Hashi nominee!✨
Latest vocabulary
Language family relationships
Language treeNgerupic
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Wa Ñi
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Proto-Uemaua
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Ngigu
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Proto-Uemaua⤷
Ngigu[view] About NgerupicWith over one hundred languages and approximately 500 million speakers in total, the Ngerupic languages comprise one of the largest language families on Sahar, spoken predominantly in Akulanen, Soltenna, and the Terminian Dominion. Countries with Nge...
[edit] [view] nuri nnìbading (Younger speech)Young Ngigu people are more likely to have been exposed to mainstream Awatese public education, and thus have adopted some features of Awatese.
-- Implosives /ɓ ɗ ɠ/ are often realized as [b d g], which are the voiced stops in Awatese.
-- Ngigu /ʃ/ is sometimes realized as Awatese [s].
-- Vowel hiatus is often removed, with vowel sequences being treated as polyphthongs and and the tone of the first vowel assimilating into those of the following vowels, and /i/ and /u/ are semivowels [j] and [w]
-- Implosives /ɓ ɗ ɠ/ are often realized as [b d g], which are the voiced stops in Awatese.
-- Ngigu /ʃ/ is sometimes realized as Awatese [s].
-- Vowel hiatus is often removed, with vowel sequences being treated as polyphthongs and and the tone of the first vowel assimilating into those of the following vowels, and /i/ and /u/ are semivowels [j] and [w]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m m: | n n: | ŋ ŋ: | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | [b]1 | t | [d]2 | k | [g]3 | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | [s]4 | ʃ | h | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ɠ | |||||||||||
- In free variation, allophone of /ɓ/
- In free variation, allophone of /ɗ/
- In free variation, allophone of /ɠ/
- In free variation, allophone of /ʃ/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | í ì | ú ù | ||
| Close-mid | é è | ó ò | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ́ ɛ̀ | ɔ́ ɔ̀ | ||
| Open | á à | |||
Syllable StructureSyllable structure is V minimally and CVC maximally. Vowel hiatus occurs at the boundary between vowels.
OtherThe allophones are mainly used by younger Ngigu speakers, and are generally in free variation.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ngigu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| NgiguOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| à Àà /à/ | a Aa /á/ | b Bb /ɓ/ | d Dd /ɗ/ | é Ẹẹ /é/ | è Èè /ɛ̀/ | e Ee /ɛ́/ | ê Ẹ̀ ẹ̀ /è/ | g Gg /ɠ/ | h Hh /h/ | i Ii /í/ |
| ì Ìì /ì/ | k Kk /k/ | m Mm /m/ | mm MM mm /m:/ | n Nn /n/ | ŋ NG ng /ŋ/ | ŋŋ NGG ngg /ŋ:/ | nn NN nn /n:/ | ó Ọọ /ó/ | ò Òò /ɔ̀/ | o Oo /ɔ́/ |
| ô Ọ̀ ọ̀ /ò/ | p Pp /p/ | r Rr /ɾ/ | t Tt /t/ | ù Ùù /ù/ | u Uu /ú/ | w Ww /w/ | x Xx /ʃ/ | j Yy /j/ | ʔ ʔ /ʔ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
