Classical Akalix [AKL]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Classical Akalix
T sa aôcèval maAlix!
/tʰa ,saʔa'matse:,val ma'ʔakʰa,lix/
Hello and enjoy the Akalix language!
Classical Akalix (sometimes written as Akalikh, as a phonetic but non-historical representation), written ìAlix in its native orthography, was the language of the Akali people from 800 to 300 NWJ. The language is primarily agglutinative, and could be argued to be polysynthetic, although the Akali-Pasan languages are decidedly less polysynthetic than their relatives to the north. Not spoken natively since 300 NWJ, it operated as a Lingua Franca until around 200 NXW, and is still used in certain limited situations (such as the abbreviations NWJ and NXJ, which come from it).
Akalix and its descendants are the southernmost edge of the Akali-Emisian language family. The Akali were a Pasan tribe who traveled south, while the remaining Pasati remained in their homeland.
Classical Akalix (sometimes written as Akalikh, as a phonetic but non-historical representation), written ìAlix in its native orthography, was the language of the Akali people from 800 to 300 NWJ. The language is primarily agglutinative, and could be argued to be polysynthetic, although the Akali-Pasan languages are decidedly less polysynthetic than their relatives to the north. Not spoken natively since 300 NWJ, it operated as a Lingua Franca until around 200 NXW, and is still used in certain limited situations (such as the abbreviations NWJ and NXJ, which come from it).
Akalix and its descendants are the southernmost edge of the Akali-Emisian language family. The Akali were a Pasan tribe who traveled south, while the remaining Pasati remained in their homeland.
Sample of Classical Akalix[view] íjaywé.ugo~ngéjaw ejaywe uwa.
War. War never changes.[view all texts]
War. War never changes.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeAkali-Emisian
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Proto-Akali-Emisian
⤷ Proto-Akali-Pasan-Nomanlix
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Classical Akalix
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⤷ Proto-Akali-Pasan-Nomanlix
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[view] About Akali-EmisianAkali-Emisian is a widespread language family, to which almost all the languages of the North (all save TSL and KNO ) belong. Despite this dominance in the north, however, the most notable member of this family is AKL<...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | [b]1 | t tʰ | [d]2 | k kʰ | [g]3 | [ʔ]4 | |||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | x | ɣ | ||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | [t͡ɬ]5 | [d͡ɮ]6 | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /k/
- appears between vowels
- word-final, allophone of /ɬ/
- word-final, allophone of /ɮ/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||
Open | a a: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Classical Akalix. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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à á /a:/ | a a /a/ | b b /p/, [b] | c c /t͡s/ | d d /t/, [d] | e e /e/ | è é /e:/ | f f /f/ | g g /k/, [g] | r gh /ɣ/ | ì í /i:/ |
i i /i/ | j j /d͡z/ | k k /kʰ/ | x kh /x/ | l l /l/ | þ ls /ɬ/, [t͡ɬ]1 | ð lz /ɮ/, [d͡ɮ]2 | m m /m/ | n n /n/ | ñ ng /ŋ/ | ò ó /o:/ |
o o /o/ | p p /pʰ/ | s s /s/ | t t /tʰ/ | ù ú /u:/ | u u /u/ | v v /v/ | w w /w/ | y y /j/ | z z /z/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |
- word-final
- word-final
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