Aikshul [AKSH]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Aikshul
Aikshul is a language isolate spoken by people in a world maybe
Grammatical features:
SOV word order 6 degrees of noun animacy Split-ergativity based on animacy 7 noun cases (unmarked, ergative, accusative, dative, genitive, prepositional, partitive) Secondary stems (sin mouth.ABSAbsolutive (case)
TRANS object, INTR argument → simin mouth.ERGErgative (case)
TRANS subject; agent; yawa tree.NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument → yawaau tree-ACCAccusative (case)
TRANS direct object; patient) Stem palatalisation (seg ash → seyi ashes) Consonant mutation (puur leg → i fuuzurer on the leg; dohle sun → ne nohleh away from the sun)
Aikshul is a language isolate spoken by people in a world maybe
Grammatical features:
TRANS object, INTR argument → simin mouth.ERGErgative (case)
TRANS subject; agent; yawa tree.NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument → yawaau tree-ACCAccusative (case)
TRANS direct object; patient)
Sample of Aikshul[view] U daarbes dulmes forure aige.
I do not know anyone by that name[view all texts]
I do not know anyone by that name[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | [b]2 | t tʰ | [d]3 | k kʰ | [g]4 | ||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | z | ʂ | [ç]5 | [ʝ]6 | x | ɣ | [ʕ]7 | |||||||
Lateral approximant | l | [ʎ]8 | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | j | [w]9 | [ɰ]10 | ||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- before velars, allophone of /n/
- after vowels, allophone of /p/
- after vowels, allophone of /t/
- after vowels, allophone of /k/
- palatalised, allophone of /x/
- palatalised, allophone of /ɣ/
- word-finally, allophone of /x/
- after nasals, allophone of /j/
- word-initially, allophone of /ʋ/
- after vowels, allophone of /ɣ/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | e | o | ||
Open | a a: |
Polyphthongs | ɔu̯ | ɛi̯ | oi̯ | ai̯ | au̯ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Aikshul. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
AikshulOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/p/, [b]1 | Dd/t/, [d]2 | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/k/, [g]3 | Hh/x/, [ç]4, [ʕ]5 | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/, [ʎ]6 | Kk/kʰ/ | Ll/l/ |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ]7 | Oo/o/ | Pp/pʰ/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/ʂ/ | Tt/tʰ/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/ʋ/, [w]8 | Yy/ɣ/, [ʝ]9, [ɰ]10 | Zz/z/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- after vowels
- after vowels
- after vowels
- palatalised
- word-finally
- after nasals
- before velars
- word-initially
- palatalised
- after vowels