Anfeiwai [AFW]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Anfeiwai
Anfeiwai (Ōnfēiwài) is a Sinitic language, very similar to Putonghua but surprisingly diverged. It retains checked tone endings (-p,-t,-k), have 8 tones and have word that doesn‘t use in Putonghua.
Language family relationships
[view] About ChineseThe Sinitic languages,[2] often synonymous with the Chinese languages, are a language family frequently postulated as one of two primary branches of Sino-Tibetan.[3][4] The Bai languages may be Sinitic (classification is difficult);[5] otherwise Sini...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ɲ]1 | ŋ | ||||||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | t tʰ | [c]2 [cʰ]3 | k kʰ | ||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ɕ | ʑ | [ç]4 | x | ||||||||
Affricate | t͡s t͡sʰ | t͡ɕ t͡ɕʰ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ̃ | j | w |
- allophone of /ŋ/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /kʰ/
- allophone of /x/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | y | ɨ | u | ||
Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
Near-open | ɐ | |||||
Open | a |
Polyphthongs | iɪt | iau | uɔn | ɔŋ | uen | ət | iŋ | uak | am | ai |
uə | iap | ɔt | øi | ok | eŋ | ɔi | an | ik | əŋ | |
uat | uk | uet | uŋ | oŋ | ot | uɔt | ɛi | yɛt | øk | |
iam | au | uɔŋ | ek | ək | yɛk | ɔk | ɔu | at | uan | |
øŋ | yt | uei | on | yn | ui | yɛŋ | ɔp | ən | yŋ | |
ak | iɔu | uɔi | iɪp | ɔm | ian | iat | yɛn | yk | aŋ | |
ap | uɔ | yɛ | ei | iɪm | uɔk | iɛ | əm | ɔn | ɛŋ | |
əp | uaŋ | iaŋ | ɐi | iɪn | ua | ɛk | iak | uai |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Anfeiwai. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
AnfeiwaiOrthography | ||||||||||
Ää Ää /ɛ/ | Ââ Ââ /ɐ/ | Aa Aa /a/ | Bb Bb /p/ | Cc Cc /t͡sʰ/ | Dd Dd /t/ | Ee Ee /e/ | Ff Ff /f/ | Gg Gg /k/ | Hh Hh /x/ | Ii Ii /i/ |
Jj Jj /t͡ɕ/ | Kk Kk /kʰ/ | Ll Ll /l/ | Mm Mm /m/ | Nn Nn /n/ | NG ng NG ng /ŋ/ | Öö Öö /ø/ | Ôô Ôô /o/ | Oo Oo /ɔ/ | Pp Pp /pʰ/ | Qq Qq /t͡ɕʰ/ |
Rr Rr /ʑ/ | Ss Ss /s/ | Tt Tt /tʰ/ | Üü Üü /y/ | Vv Vv /ʋ̃/ | Ww Ww /w/ | Xx Xx /ɕ/ | Yy Yy /j/ | Zz Zz /t͡s/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |