Zwazwan [ZWA]
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Other
Zwazwamia
BalakiaSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Zwazwan
The national language of Zwazwamia, a country directly south of Amaia. It is nearly identical to 
Amaian phonologically, but it differs greatly lexically and has some pragmatic differences as well. While the literary languages are very similar except for the lexical similarities, the colloquial languages have very low mutual intelligibility.
There are two main dialects of Zwazwan: Western and Eastern. The distributions are a southern continuation of the Western and Eastern dialects of Amaian, though there is no equivalent of Gynnyn Amaian, the third dialect. The dialects differ almost entirely in pronunciation, in particular phonetic vowel and diphthong realizations. There are a small number of lexical differences.
Amaian phonologically, but it differs greatly lexically and has some pragmatic differences as well. While the literary languages are very similar except for the lexical similarities, the colloquial languages have very low mutual intelligibility.There are two main dialects of Zwazwan: Western and Eastern. The distributions are a southern continuation of the Western and Eastern dialects of Amaian, though there is no equivalent of Gynnyn Amaian, the third dialect. The dialects differ almost entirely in pronunciation, in particular phonetic vowel and diphthong realizations. There are a small number of lexical differences.
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Language family relationships
Language treeAmaian
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Proto-Amaian
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Zwazwan
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Proto-Amaian⤷ Amaian-Zwazwan
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Zwazwan[view] About AmaianAmaian-Zwazwan, Najim-Babzy, Wamenan, and the Ziimen languages. An independent language family of southern Miraria.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Velar | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||
| Fricative | s sᵝ | z zᵝ | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | ||||||
| Lateral flap | ɺ | |||||||
| Flap | ⱱ | |||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | ɯ | u | |
| Close-mid | e | |||
| Open-mid | ʌ | |||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Zwazwan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| ZwazwanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| a Aa /ɑ/ | ä Ää /a/ | b Bb /b/ | c Cc /t͡s/ | d Dd /d/ | e Ee /e/ | g Gg /g/ | ï Ii /i/ | x Jj /d͡z/ | k Kk /k/ | m Mm /m/ | n Nn /n/ |
| o Oo /ʌ/ | p Pp /p/ | l Rr /ɺ/ | s Ss /s/ | sw SW sw /sᵝ/ | t Tt /t/ | u Uu /u/ | v Vv /ⱱ/ | i Yy /ɯ/ | z Zz /z/ | zw ZW zw /zᵝ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
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