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Denpa Language

Registered by [Deactivated User] on 2 October 2022

Language type A priori

Species Human/humanoid

About Denpa Language The Denpa language is the ethnic language of the Denpa people and the main language of the Denpa Republic, it features complex consonant clusters and has a tendency of head-marking. The basic word order is SOV with postpositions; besides, the Denpa language uses noun classifiers and does not have an obliged plural marking on nouns.

Sample of Denpa Language[view] bdvaimridu?

Do you smoke?[view all texts]

Latest vocabulary

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ditsndzurvntʻitsnwelwitschia

mraitnorchid

Language family relationships

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Denpa Language

[edit] [view] 1 (Derivations only)This includes a list of (previously independent) morphemes that are only used in derivations

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial

Labio-
dental

Alveolar

Post-
Alveolar

Palatal

Velar

Pharyngeal

Glottal

Nasal

Plosive

p pʼ

t tʼ

k kʼ

Fricative

[f]¹

Affricate

t͡s t͡sʼ

d͡z

t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ

d͡ʒ

Lateral approximant

Approximant

Trill

allophone of /v/

Vowels	Front	Near- front	Central	Back
Close	i		[ɨ]¹		u
Near-close		ɪ
Close-mid					o
Open-mid	ɛ
Open				ɑ

Polyphthongs

[ɪe]²

allophone of /ɪ/
allophone of /ɪ/

Syllable StructureThe Denpa language is highly permissive of consonant clustering in both onset and coda position. The main restriction is fricatives can’t be the first element of an initial cluster, and fricatives can‘t be at the end of a syllable either.

Orthography

Below is the orthography for Denpa Language. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.

Denpa LanguageOrthography [edit]
Aa/ɑ/	AI ai/ɛ/	Bb/b/	CH ch/t͡ʃ/	CHʻ chʻ/t͡ʃʼ/	Dd/d/	DJ dj/d͡ʒ/	DZ dz/d͡z/	Ee/ɪ/	Ff[f]	Gg/g/	Hh/h/
Ii/i/	Kk/k/	KH kh/ħ/	Kʻ kʻ/kʼ/	Ll/l/	Mm/m/	Nn/n/	Oo/o/	Pp/p/	Pʻ pʻ/pʼ/	Rr/r/	Ss/s/
SH sh/ʃ/	Tt/t/	TS ts/t͡s/	TSʻ tsʻ/t͡sʼ/	Tʻ tʻ/tʼ/	Uu/u/	Vv/v/	Xx/ħ/	Yy/j/	Zz/z/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]

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