ajawamu [BEA]
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ajawamu
ajawamu [ajawamu]*
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[Deactivated User] on 30 June 2018
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About ajawamu
Just a practice for a naturalistic language cultivated by a specific environment. It's based around a fictional group of people completely isolated on a mountainous tropical island.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | ɲ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | tʼ | kʼ | ʔ1 | |||||||||||
| Fricative | θ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɮ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | [ʍ]2 | w | ||||||||||
| Click | ʘ̬ | |||||||||||||
- usually not pronounced, just there for spelling
- allophone of /w/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ʌ | |||||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɔɪ | aʊ | aɪ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for ajawamu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ajawamuOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| '/ʔ/1 | 1/aɪ/ | 3/ə/ | 4/æ/ | 7/ɪ/ | 8/aʊ/ | Aa/a/ | Ee/e/ | Hh/θ/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/kʼ/ |
| Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/ɲ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/ʘ̬/ | Qq/ɔɪ/ | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/ɮ/ | Tt/tʼ/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/ʌ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- usually not pronounced, just there for spelling
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