Cikap [CKP]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Cikap
Cikap is a head-final, head-marking polysynthetic language with an animacy-based word order, pronominal subject prefixes, and object incorporation. It was inspired by the natural languages Ainu and Oogami Ryukyuan and the constructed language Hymmnos. Cikap is a revision of the first language created for the Na, Nuim, and shares many features with it.
Sample of Cikap[view] Wep temisasse yo Kai niay misaru wen yoro tohunia su cu ssossemi. / Ruka ssoay ssokiku omssa surarunea wen su cu mayakni.
I want you to make Kyle run to the store to buy bread. / I made Luca paint the wall red for my mother.[view all texts]
I want you to make Kyle run to the store to buy bread. / I made Luca paint the wall red for my mother.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | |||||||||||
| Fricative | s s: | ʃ ʃ: | h | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Cikap. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 CikapOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Cc/ʃ/ | CC cc/ʃ:/ | Ee/e/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | SS ss/s:/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
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