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Eju
Éjù [éʈù]
EjuÉjù [éʈù]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Eju
Another sketch of a West African-ish phonology besides 
Inuesa.
Like Gbe and Edoid, many nasal phones are underlyingly oral consonants before nasal vowels.
Three level tones: high, mid, low á a à
Inuesa.Like Gbe and Edoid, many nasal phones are underlyingly oral consonants before nasal vowels.
Three level tones: high, mid, low á a à
Sample of Eju[view] Irì ì nwẹ gù nyó ákọ ẹrẹ tẹ́ ìyì tén nhù; gọ và gbá ken sẹ ra gù tén mì.
That's the problem with putting others first; you've taught them you come second.[view all texts]
That's the problem with putting others first; you've taught them you come second.[view all texts]
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | [m]1 | [n]2 | [ɲ]3 | [ŋ]4 [ŋʷ]5 | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | [d]6 | ʈ | k | g | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | h [h̃]7 | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ [ʋ̃]8 | ɹ [ɹ̃]9 | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Blends | kp | [gb]10 |
- before nasal vowel, allophone of /b/
- before nasal vowel, allophone of /l/
- before nasal vowel, allophone of /j/
- before nasal vowel, allophone of /g/
- before nasal vowel, allophone of /w/
- initially, allophone of /l/
- before nasal vowel, allophone of /h̃/
- allophone of /ʋ̃/
- allophone of /ɹ̃/
- initially, allophone of /w/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i ĩ | u ũ | ||
| Close-mid | e ẽ | o õ | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ | ||
| Open | a ã | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Eju. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| EjuOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AN an/ã/ | Bb/b/ | Dd[d]1 | Ee/e/ | Ẹẹ/ɛ/ | EN en/ẽ/ | ẸN ẹn/ɛ̃/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ |
| GB gb[gb]2 | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | IN in/ĩ/ | Jj/ʈ/ | Kk/k/ | KP kp/kp/ | Ll/l/ | Mm[m]3 | MW mw[ʋ̃] |
| Nn[n]4 | NG ng[ŋ]5 | NH nh[h̃]6 | NW nw[ŋʷ]7 | NY ny[ɲ]8 | Ọọ/ɔ/ | Oo/o/ | ON on/õ/ | ỌN ọn/ɔ̃/ | Pp/p/ |
| Rr/ɹ/, [ɹ̃] | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | UN un/ũ/ | Vv/ʋ/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- initially
- initially
- before nasal vowel
- before nasal vowel
- before nasal vowel
- before nasal vowel
- before nasal vowel
- before nasal vowel
