Akuveth [AKV]
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Registered by
alexis on 10 March 2019
Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersAkuveth is spoken in Akuvi.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Akuveth
Akuveth (akuveṫ śauzi akuveṫ śauzi) is the language of the island of Akuvi.
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- No formal sentential subordination (conjunctions are used instead)
- Subject-object pivots for clausal conjunctions
- Classifier/measure word system for most nouns
- Tenseless with multiple overlapping aspects
- Verbal inflection via metathesis and infixation
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ȵ | (ŋ) | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | k | g | |||||||||
| Fricative | v | θ | s | z | ɕ | ʑ | [ç]1 | x | h | |||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /x/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | ɨ | ɯ ɯ: | |||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | |||||||
| Close-mid | o | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||
| Near-open | [ɐ]2 | |||||||
| Open | a a: | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | aɯ̯ | ɛɯ̯ | ai̯ |
- allophone of /ɨ/
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Akuveth. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AkuvethOrthography | |||||||||
| a a ḣara /a/, [ɐ] | au au ḣazuu /aɯ̯/ | aa aa saara /a:/ | e e sera /ɛ/ | eu eu sezuu /ɛɯ̯/ | i i źira /i/ | o o gora /o/ | u u kura /ɯ/ | uu uu kuzuu /ɯ:/ | y y myra /ɨ/, [ɪ] |
| ai ai daira /ai̯/ | t t ta /t/ | v v va /v/ | d d da /d/ | s s sa /s/ | g g ga /g/ | z z za /z/ | r r ra /ɾ/ | n n na /n/ | k k ka /k/ |
| ń ń ńa /ȵ/ | ṫ ṫ ṫa /θ/ | c c ca /c/ | p p pa /p/ | b b ba /b/ | ś ś śa /ɕ/ | h h ha /h/, [ç] | ḣ ḣ ḣa /x/, [ç] | ź ź źa /ʑ/ | m m ma /m/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||
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