Chel [CHEL]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken by a population of around 5,800,000 in:
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of ChelCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeMaṭaic
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Proto-Maṭa
⤷ Imperial-Kitaic
⤷ Kitaic
⤷ Kedic
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Chel
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Proto-Maṭa⤷ Imperial-Kitaic
⤷ Kitaic
⤷ Kedic
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Chel[view] About MaṭaicA family of languages ultimately descended from PMTA . Originally confined to the region west of the Sekash River, it was spread via conquest to large areas of the southwestern riverlands and eventually up the Sun river valley and into ...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | s | z | ɕ | ʑ | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɮ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | ɨ | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | [ɘ]1 | ||||
| Open-mid | [œ]2 | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /ɔ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Chel. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| ChelOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Čč/t͡ɕ/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ee/e/ | Ëë[ɘ] | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/x/, /h/ | Ii/i/ |
| Ïï/ɨ/ | Jj/d͡ʑ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/ɮ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Öö[œ] | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ |
| Ss/s/ | Šš/ɕ/ | Tt/t̪/ | Uu/u/ | Üü/y/ | Vv/β/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | Žž/ʑ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
