Common Pacific [CPA]
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Language type
Creole
Species
Human/humanoid
About Common Pacific
Common Pacific was a name given to the language used for trade and diplomacy in the southern Pacific Ocean during the 7th millenium CE. It was mainly influenced by Polynesian and other Austronesian languages, but also South-Asian languages, English, French and other Romance languages.
Language family relationships
Language treeAustronesian
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Oceanic
⤷ Central-Eastern Oceanic
⤷ Central Pacific
⤷ Polynesian
⤷ Tahitic
⤷ Maori
⤷ Common Pacific
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Oceanic
⤷ Central-Eastern Oceanic
⤷ Central Pacific
⤷ Polynesian
⤷ Tahitic
⤷ Maori
⤷ Common Pacific
[view] About AustronesianThe Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the Pacific, with a few members on continental Asia, that are spoken by about 386 million people. A German scholar, Wilhelm Sch...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | ||||||||||||||
Fricative | ɸ | f | θ | ð | s | h | ||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | w | |||||||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | u | ||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||
Mid | ə | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
Open | a |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Common Pacific. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Common PacificOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
'/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | Çç/t͡ʃ/ | DH dh/ð/ | Éé/e/ | Ee/ə/ | Èè/ɛ/ | Ff/f/, /ɸ/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ññ/ɲ/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/, /ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |