Xatika [XTX]
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Language type
International Auxiliary Language (IAL)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Xatika
Xaàtiká is a tribal language inspired by pirahã and other tribal languages. this language is spoken by over 1,500 people in the tribal areas of sagarko, with a small but complex phonemic inventory compared to the other languages of sagarko.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m1 | [n]2 [n̥]3 | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | (ʔ) | |||||||
Fricative | s | ʃ4 | (ç) | h | ||||||||||
Affricate | [t͡ʃ]5 | d͡ʒ6 | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | lˠ | |||||||||||||
Approximant | w | |||||||||||||
Trill | ʙ7 | [r̥]8 | ||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ̥ |
Blends | [ɺ͡ɺ̼]9 | t̪͡ʙ̥10 |
- at the beginning of words
- at the beginning of words, allophone of /g/
- at the end of words, allophone of /g/
- before i and u
- before i and u, allophone of /t/
- before i and u
- before o
- before i and u, allophone of /ɾ̥/
- only in adjectives. most people use the other g sounds instead, allophone of /g/
- only before o.
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i ĩ î í ì ǐ | u ũ û ú ù ǔ | ||
Close-mid | (e) | o õ ô ó ò ǒ | ||
Open | a ã â á à ǎ |
Polyphthongs | oi̯ | ai̯ | au̯ | ui̯ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Xatika. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
XatikaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa ax /a/ | Ã ã/ã/ | Bb bobi /ʙ/1, /m/2, /b/ | CH ch che /ç/3 | Dd dadi /d/, /d͡ʒ/4 | Ee/e/5 | Ff fefi /ʔ/6 | Gg xagi /g/, [ɺ͡ɺ̼]7, [n]8, [n̥]9 | Hh heti /h/ | Ii ix /i/ | Ĩ ĩ/ĩ/ | Kk kuli /k/ |
Ll lali /lˠ/ | Oo ox /o/ | Õ õ/õ/ | Pp peri /p/ | Rr rari /ɾ̥/, [r̥]10 | Ss sisi /ʃ/11, /s/ | Tt tati /t/, [t͡ʃ]12 | TB tb tbowi /t̪͡ʙ̥/13 | Uu ux /u/ | Ũ ũ/ũ/ | Ww wawi /w/ | Xx kexaixaá /ʔ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- before o
- at the beginning of words
- loan words only
- before i and u
- loan words only
- loan words only
- only in adjectives. most people use the other g sounds instead.
- at the beginning of words
- at the end of words
- before i and u
- before i and u
- before i and u
- only before o.