Kayelkian [KAE]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kayelkian
Kayelkian is a language that belongs to a clan-based warrior culture.
Some notable features are:
Some notable features are:
- SOV word order
- No indirect objects
- Interfixed adpositions
Sound samples in Kayelkian
Some sound samples of Kayelkian. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
zal ru‘jika rušyväku.
I speak English
I speak English
Language family relationships
Language treeAidic
⤷ Traditional Aido
⤷ Aido-Persean
⤷ Early Persean
⤷ Late Persean
⤷ Perso-Kayelkian
⤷ Proto-Kayelkian
⤷ Traditional Kayelkian
⤷ Kayelkian
⤷ Traditional Aido
⤷ Aido-Persean
⤷ Early Persean
⤷ Late Persean
⤷ Perso-Kayelkian
⤷ Proto-Kayelkian
⤷ Traditional Kayelkian
⤷ Kayelkian
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m1 | n | ŋ2 | |||||||||||||
Plosive | b | d | g | ʔ | ||||||||||||
Fricative | β β̞ | θ | z | ʃ | ɣ | h | ||||||||||
Lateral approximant | [l]3 | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | ɹ | j | ɰ | |||||||||||||
Trill | r | [ʀ]4 ʀ̝̥ [ʀ̙̥]5 |
- Turns into /n/ word-finally
- Turns into /n/ word-finally
- Used in some dialects instead of /ɹ/
- Used in some dialects instead of /r/
- Used in some dialects instead of /ʀ̝̥/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | y y: | u u: | |
Mid | e̞ e̞: | o̞ o̞: | ||
Open | a a: | ɑ ɑ: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kayelkian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
KayelkianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Áá/a:/ | Aa/a/ | Ää/ɑ/ | Āā/ɑ:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Éé/e̞:/ | Ee/e̞/ | Ff/θ/ | Gg/ʀ̝̥/ | Hh/h/ |
Íí/i:/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/g/ | Ll/ɹ/ | Mm/m/1 | Nn/n/ | Ňň/ŋ/2 | Óó/o̞:/ | Oo/o̞/ | Qq/ɰ/ | Rr/r/ |
Šš/ʃ/ | Úú/u:/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/β/ | Ww/β̞/ | Xx/ɣ/ | Yy/y/ | Ýý/y:/ | Zz/z/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- Turns into /n/ word-finally
- Turns into /n/ word-finally
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