Alabayi [AIY]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Alabayi
spoken by nomadic hunter gatherers and pastoralists
Sample of Alabayi[view] Boya ciwizaku nutu kałemara šikiyalo hamapa.
I heard there was nobody left in that village.[view all texts]
I heard there was nobody left in that village.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Alabayi
Some sound samples of Alabayi. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Kušułu ta denašikibušuyu miki, kušułu sawabarayikeya nikiłe.
Even if it rains, we’ll still get married tomorrow. Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Even if it rains, we’ll still get married tomorrow. Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | t | k | |||||||||||||||
Fricative | β̺ | f | ð̺ | s̺ | ʃ̺ | ʝ̺ | h | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s̺ | t͡ʃ̺ | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ̺ | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral flap | ɺ | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | w |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | |||
Close-mid | o | |||
Open-mid | ɛ̃ | ɔ̃ | ||
Open | a |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Alabayi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
AlabayiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
a a /a/ | b be /β̺/ | c ce /t͡ʃ̺/ | d de /ð̺/ | e e /ɛ̃/ | f fa /f/ | h ha /h/ | i i /i/ | k ka /k/ | l le /l/ | m ma /m/ | n na /n/ |
o o /o/ | p pa /p/ | r ra /ɺ/ | š še /ʃ̺/ | s sa /s̺/ | t ti /t/ | u u /ɔ̃/ | w wa /w/ | y ya /ʝ̺/ | z ze /t͡s̺/ | ł łu /ɬ̺/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |