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CWSP Lang Typology New 64 words Doktakur
Đṍkcur
[ˈᶯɖʷõːʔt̪͡kʷur]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 8 November 2017
Language type Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersSpoken in: JeehoopMinority
Species Human/humanoid
About Doktakur A language isolate spoken by a minority tribal people in the jungles of southern Jiihuhp. Largely inspired by the languages of the Amazon and Central America, in particular Macro-Ge and Cabecar, as well as some native Australian languages like Lardil.

Features:
  • Mixed fusional-analytical with some agglutinative elements (lots of derivational affixes)
  • Split Ergative: Fluid-S in pronouns, Ergative in nouns
  • Classifiers on verbs
  • Double-marked possession involving a genitive possessor and relationiser possessum
  • Gendered Speech and Ritual Dialects
  • 4 degrees of formality: casual, neutral, polite, formal which indicate close relationship, blank relationship, respect towards addressee and deference towards addressee respectively. There's also religious honourifics used with deities and other sacred concepts, as well as religion-specific words for some nouns and verbs
  • No grammatical tense
  • Voiced stop~Nasal allophony: plain stop between oral vowels, prenasalised between oral and nasal vowels and fully nasal between nasal vowels or in coda after nasal vowels
  • Lots of allophony
  • Nasal harmony which affects vowels, fricatives and approximants
  • Sibilant harmony
Sample of Doktakur[view] Bṍ lac Đṍkcur uŧlýtihru.

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Language family relationships
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[edit] [view] wip (Butcher Language)An elaborate avoidance register, which is used only when butchering animals. Certain words are taboo as they are believed to taint the meat and anger the dead animal's spirit. Many words are coined from the regular lexicon and morphology but have idiosyncratic meanings in this context. Women and children are forbidden from hearing or speaking this dialect so butchery only happens in the smoke house where women and children are forbidden to go.
[edit] [view] Ŧíṟai-si-kõk-cur (Woman's speech)The dialect used by woman to refer to masculine entities and objects or when in earshot of non-maternal male relatives.

All words referring to masculine entities and objects must be suffixed with formal and male honourifics and have long periphrastic names due to the taboo on women referring directly to masculine nouns.
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialDentalAlveolarRetroflexPalatalLabio-
velar
VelarUvularGlottal
Nasal [m]1 [n̪]2   [ɳ]3          
Plosive p b   ʈ ɖ     k   [ʔ]4
Fricative [ɸ]5   s ʂ [ç]6       h
Lateral approximant     ɭ     ʟ    
Approximant         [j]7 [w]8      
Trill     r         ʀ  
Flap       ɽ          
Blends [n̪͡ŋ]9 d̪͡g t̪͡k k͡ʀ̥ p͡ʀ̥
  1. allophone of /b/
  2. allophone of /d̪/
  3. allophone of /ɖ/
  4. In coda, allophone of /k/
  5. allophone of /h/
  6. allophone of /h/
  7. Before and between vowels, allophone of /i/
  8. Before and between vowels, allophone of /u/
  9. allophone of /d̪͡g/
VowelsFrontCentralBack
Close i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃ u ũ
Close-mid     o õ
Open-mid ɛ ɛ̃    
Open   ä ä̃  
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Doktakur. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 DoktakurOrthography [edit]
Ãã/ä̃/Aa/ä/Bb/b/, [m]Cc/t̪͡k/Dd/d̪/, [n̪]Ee/ɛ/Ẽẽ/ɛ̃/Gg/d̪͡g/, [n̪͡ŋ]Hh/h/, [ɸ], [ç]Ĩĩ/ĩ/Ii/i/, [j]1
Ḵḵ/k͡ʀ̥/Kk/k/, [ʔ]2Ḻḻ/ʟ/Ll/l̪/Oo/o/Õõ/õ/Pp/p/P̄ p̄/p͡ʀ̥/Rr/r/Ṟṟ/ʀ/Ss/s/
Tt/t̪/Ũũ/ũ/Uu/u/, [w]3Xx/ɽ/Ỹỹ/ɨ̃/Yy/ɨ/Zz/ʂ/Đđ/ɖ/, [ɳ]Łł/ɭ/Ŧŧ/ʈ/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
  1. Before and between vowels
  2. In coda
  3. Before and between vowels
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
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Phonology
Allophony and Harmony
21-Nov-17 19:50
Typological information for Doktakur

Morphological typologySynthetic
Morphosyntactic alignmentSplit Ergative
Primary word orderSOV
Vowel harmonyOral-nasal

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