Awa [EOR]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Awa
inflected, fusional language with high vowel to consonant ratio and syllabic consonants
Sample of Awa[view] nubäw yo.ygu / uöaö.aö ö.wäj.nywëa / nubäw yo.ygu / bwégeglöaö.aö edl.lo / unubäw yo.ygu / jano ajlina.wy.ë gäowenäjajdo / nubäw yo.ygu / owlgaougylädu augowia / uibaiw awonä igl jbäwiäunun[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||
Nasal | n̩ | [ŋ̩]1 | ||||||
Plosive | [t]2 | [k]3 | ʔ | |||||
Fricative | [ɸ]4 | β | ɣ | ɦ | ||||
Lateral approximant | l̩ | |||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- allophone of /n̩/
- word initial, allophone of /ɾ/
- word initial, allophone of /ɣ/
- word initial, allophone of /β/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ʊ | |||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
Mid | [ə]1 | |||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɞ | ʌ | |||||||
Near-open | æ | |||||||||
Open | ɑ |
- allophone of /ʌ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Awa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
AwaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
.// | ?/ʔ/ | Aa/ɑ/ | Ää/æ/ | Bb/β/ | Dd/ɾ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Éé/e/ | Ëë/ʌ/ | Gg/ɣ/ |
Hh/ɦ/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Jj/i/ | Ll/l̩/ | Nn/n̩/ | Oo/o/ | Öö/ɞ/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/ʊ/ | Yy/ʏ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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