Early-Botiq [EBQ]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Early-Botiq
Tamedeşim
Tamedešim!
/tʰamedeɕim/
Greetings!
Early-Botiq is developed from the
Proto-Botiq language. Spoken in and around the Kingdom of Ejai.
Features:
Ergativity Polipersonal agreement Animate, inanimate distinction Animacy hierarchy A lot of umlaut Vowel harmony 12 noun cases Uses 
Ejai script A lot of 
Mawic and Ejai loanwords
Tamedeşim
Tamedešim!
/tʰamedeɕim/
Greetings!
Early-Botiq is developed from the
Proto-Botiq language. Spoken in and around the Kingdom of Ejai.Features:
Ejai script Mawic and Ejai loanwordsLanguage family relationships
Language treeBotiq
⤷ Proto-Botiq
⤷ Southern-branch
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Early-Botiq
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Proto-Botiq⤷ Southern-branch
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Early-BotiqPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | [ɴ]2 | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p [pʰ]3 | b | t [tʰ]4 | d | [ȶ]5 | [ȡ]6 | k [kʰ]7 | g | q [qʰ]8 | ɢ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [ɕ]9 | [ʑ]10 | [ç]11 | χ | [ʁ]12 | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | [t͡ɕ]13 | [d͡ʑ]14 | t͡ɬ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
- Before /k/ or /g/, allophone of /n/
- Before /q/ or /ɢ/, allophone of /n/
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- Before /i/ or /j/, allophone of /t/
- Before /i/ or /j/, allophone of /d/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /q/
- Before /i/ or /j/, allophone of /ʃ/
- Before /i/ or /j/, allophone of /ʒ/
- Before /i/ or /j/, allophone of /s/
- /r/ after /q/,/χ/,/ɢ/ and back vowels or /χ/ word final, allophone of /r/
- Before /i/ or /j/, allophone of /t͡ʃ/
- Before /i/ or /j/, allophone of /d͡ʒ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | y y: | u u: [ũ]1 | |||
| Close-mid | e e: | ø ø: | o o: [õ]2 | |||
| Mid | [ə̃]3 | |||||
| Open | a a: | ɑ ɑ: [ɑ̃]4 | ||||
| Polyphthongs | [e͡i]5 | [o͡u]6 |
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /ɑ/
- after aspirated C, allophone of /e/
- After aspirated C, allophone of /o/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Early-Botiq. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Early-BotiqOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa Aa /a/ | Ää Ää /ɑ/ | Bb Bb /b/ | Dd Dd /d/ | DZ dz DZ dz /d͡z/ | DŽ ḑ DŽ dž /d͡ʒ/ | Ee Ee /e/ | Ff Ff /f/ | Gg Gg /g/ |
| Ĝĝ Ĝĝ /ɢ/ | Hh Hh /h/ | Ii Ii /i/ | Kk Kk /k/ | Ll Ll /l/ | Mm Mm /m/ | Nn Nn /n/ | NY ñ NY ny /ɲ/ | Oo Oo /o/ |
| Öö Öö /ø/ | Pp Pp /p/ | Qq Qq /q/ | Rr Rr /r/ | Ss Ss /s/ | Šš Šš /ʃ/ | ŠL šl ŠL šl /ɬ/ | Tt Tt /t/ | TŠ tš TŠ tš /t͡ʃ/ |
| TS c TS ts /t͡s/ | TŠL tšl TŠL tšl /t͡ɬ/ | Üü Üü /y/ | Uu Uu /u/ | Vv Vv /v/ | Xx Xx /χ/ | Yy Yy /j/ | Žj Žž /ʒ/ | Zz Zz /z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
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