Faxiwo [FAX]
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Language type
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Species
Human/humanoid
About Faxiwo
Faxiwo, originally spelled Facxiwo, was a pop-culture based language devised in the decade of 1980 as a means of keeping cohesion in a group of adolescents and pre-adolescents. The phonetics and grammar of Faxiwo were basically those of standard Spanish and its main reference was a dictionary of terms. If you are interested in Faxiwo, you can find an overview here (yet to be finished).
Sample of Faxiwo[view] Kas piú piniyo de lo ke ochaba
You're shorter than I'd expected[view all texts]
You're shorter than I'd expected[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
Nasal | m | ɱ1 | n̪ | ɲ | ŋ2 | |||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | k | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | β3 | f | θ | ð4 | s | x | ɣ5 | |||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j6 | w7 | ||||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /n̪/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /d̪/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | u | ||
Close-mid | e | o | ||
Open | a |
Syllable StructureSyllable structure in Faxiwo is essentially the same as in standard Spanish.
Stress informationStress and ortographical stressing rules in Faxiwo are essentially the same as those in standard Spanish.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Faxiwo. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
FaxiwoOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Áá/a/ | Aa a /a/ | Bb be /b/, /β/ | CH ch che /t͡ʃ/ | Dd de /d̪/, /ð/ | Éé/e/ | Ee e /e/ | Ff efe /f/ | Gg ge /g/, /ɣ/ | Íí/i/ |
Ii i /i/, /j/ | Jj jota /x/ | Kk ka /k/ | Ll ele /l/ | Mm eme /ɱ/, /m/ | Ññ eñe /ɲ/ | Nn ene /ŋ/, /n̪/ | Oo o /o/ | Pp pe /p/ | Rr erre /ɾ/ |
Ss ese /s/ | Tt te /t̪/ | Úú/u/ | Uu u /u/ | Vv/b/ | Ww uve doble /w/ | Yy i griega /d͡ʒ/ | Zz zeta /θ/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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