Insular Hakkanic [WHK]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Insular Hakkanic
The people who initially settled Naxapsonowaye in the south of Hakkan territory had planned a marine expedition to discover the second largest land mass next to Etoe, their continent, but a ship had crashed landed just off the coast of the nearer islets. This is their language.
Inspiration
Insular Hakkan is based of modern East Asian languages, primarily Cantonese, and Thai to some extent. It is a tonal language, based off the differentiation between long and short, and high and low vowels. It is meant to be purely diversion in all actually, despite it being written in the Roman alphabet. Insular Hakkan is strictly analytical, there are no special case declensions and no special inflection when it comes to Insular Hakkan. Additionally, it not a pro-drop language and it employs a stress-timed language structure. Morphosyntactically, it works the same way Mandarin Chinese does in addition to derive words through compounding them, despite the fact that compound words are still written as separate words in their Roman transliteration.
Inspiration
Insular Hakkan is based of modern East Asian languages, primarily Cantonese, and Thai to some extent. It is a tonal language, based off the differentiation between long and short, and high and low vowels. It is meant to be purely diversion in all actually, despite it being written in the Roman alphabet. Insular Hakkan is strictly analytical, there are no special case declensions and no special inflection when it comes to Insular Hakkan. Additionally, it not a pro-drop language and it employs a stress-timed language structure. Morphosyntactically, it works the same way Mandarin Chinese does in addition to derive words through compounding them, despite the fact that compound words are still written as separate words in their Roman transliteration.
Sample of Insular Hakkanic[view] Na waan kha toh kah, phaak. Tuah na waan won took yam na waan, hok wok wook tok. Hok sho ye hen ye koohk pop.
Nothing is what it seems, boy. Expect nothing and fear nothing, here or anywhere. There’s your first lesson. [view all texts]
Nothing is what it seems, boy. Expect nothing and fear nothing, here or anywhere. There’s your first lesson. [view all texts]
Sound samples in Insular Hakkanic
Some sound samples of Insular Hakkanic. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Siow paaph yeth tek teep.
You dance well.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
You dance well.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
Language treeProto-Yli-Hakkan
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Old Hakkan
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Old Hakkan⤷
Insular Hakkanic[view] About Proto-Yli-HakkanPYH
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | ʈ | kʰ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ʂ | x | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | p͡ɸ | t͡s | ʈ͡ʂ | k͡x | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | ʀ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Near-open | æ | |||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Insular Hakkanic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Insular HakkanicOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/æ/ | AA aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EE ee/e/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/kʰ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| Oo/ɔ/ | OO oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ʀ/ | Ss/s/, /ʂ/, /s/ | Tt/t/, /ʈ/ | TS ts/ʈ͡ʂ/, /t͡s/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
