Abea [ABB]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Abea
Aba is the official language of Abe. Its name means 'Language of the East' in Zs'e because Abe is an eastern country. It is the tongue of the people of the East, the first one to find the ocean, the first to report the world wasn't a giant desert.
They have very productive economy around Imebe (Z'se : Imb, Aba : Imaba) and a lot of the culture revolves around marine life, as 70% of the population own a boat (through sponsorship for those who can't afford a whole ship and crew).
They have very productive economy around Imebe (Z'se : Imb, Aba : Imaba) and a lot of the culture revolves around marine life, as 70% of the population own a boat (through sponsorship for those who can't afford a whole ship and crew).
Language family relationships
Zose[view] About ZoslanThis is the language family of Imebe, including the currently spoken Zose, Jhidar and Abea.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | d͡z | (t͡ʃ) | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | ʀ | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | fw | (kw) |
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | y | ||
| Close-mid | e | o o: | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | [ɔ]1 | ||
| Near-open | æ æ: | |||
- allophone of /o:/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Abea. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AbeaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/æ/, /æ:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Éé/e/ | Ff/f/ | FH fh/fw/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ʒ/ |
| JH jh/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | KH kh/kw/1 | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o:/, /o/, [ɔ] | Pp/p/ | Rr/ʀ/ | Ss/s/ |
| SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/t͡ʃ/2 | Uu/y/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/d͡z/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- loan words only
- loan words only
