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Napathi
Nhabadh [ŋæpæð]
NapathiNhabadh [ŋæpæð]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Napathi
Napathi, or as it is known by its speakers, Ngabadh (lit. "Sea-tongue"), is a harsh, guttural language spoken in the coastal regions of Şerrakh, known as Nhaggorn (The Sea of The Sword). It's speakers are a seafaring people whose culture and language are heavily influenced by their proximity to the sea. As a result, Ngabadh's lexicon and grammar reflect this by including several class distinctions for maritime, terrestrial, and coastal nouns as well as distinct names for every type of sea-dwelling creature, tide-level, and sea-borne storm, among other topics.
It is a highly agglutinative, Erg-Abs, VSO language with many irregular noun and verb forms.
*more to come*
It is a highly agglutinative, Erg-Abs, VSO language with many irregular noun and verb forms.
*more to come*
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | ||||||||
| Nasal | m [m̩]1 | n̪ [n̩]2 | ŋ [ŋ̩]3 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | c | ɟ | k | g | q | ɢ | ||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | ʃ | ʒ | [ç]4 | [ʝ]5 | x | ɣ | χ | ʁ | ||||
| Lateral approximant | l [l̩]6 | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ɹ̩]7 | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
- Word final only, allophone of /m/
- Word final only, allophone of /n̪/
- Word final only, allophone of /ŋ/
- Before high vowels, allophone of /x/
- Before high vowels, allophone of /ɣ/
- Word final only, allophone of /l/
- Word final only, allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | ɨ | ɯ | u | |||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | |||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | aɔ | uɔ | aɪ | ɛɔ | ɛɪ |
- only in diphthongs, allophone of /ɨ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Napathi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NapathiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ai ai/aɪ/ | Ao ao/aɔ/ | Bb/b/ | Bb bb/p/ | Bh bh/v/ | Bhh bhh/f/ | Cc/ɟ/ | Cc cc/c/ | Dd/d̪/ |
| Dd dd/t̪/ | Dh dh/ð/ | Dhh dhh/θ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ei ei/ɛɪ/ | Eo eo/ɛɔ/ | Gg/g/ | Gg gg/k/ | Gh gh/ɣ/, [ʝ]1 | Ghh ghh/x/ |
| Ii/ɨ/, [ɪ]2 | Ll/l/, [l̩]3 | Ll ll/ɬ/ | Mm/m/, [m̩]4 | Nn/n̪/, [n̩]5 | Nh nh/ŋ/, [ŋ̩]6 | Oo/ɔ/ | Qq/ɢ/ | Qh qh/ʁ/ | Qhh qhh/χ/ |
| Qq qq/q/ | Rr/r/, [ɹ̩]7 | Ss/ʒ/ | Ss ss/ʃ/ | Ưư/ɯ/ | Uu/u/ | Uo uo/uɔ/ | Ww/ə/ | Xx[ç]8 | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- Before high vowels
- only in diphthongs
- Word final only
- Word final only
- Word final only
- Word final only
- Word final only
- Before high vowels
