Ghap'emao [FXL]
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Ghap'emao
Ghap'emao [ɣapʼemao]*
Ghap'emaoGhap'emao [ɣapʼemao]*
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ghap'emao
This is a personal language. The first conlang in which I try to be rigourous about phonology and grammar.
It is meant to be used on 21rst century Earth.
Its vocabulary will be apriori. It will probably be 80% isolating, with some agglutinative processes and maybe some polythesis.
It is meant to be used on 21rst century Earth.
Its vocabulary will be apriori. It will probably be 80% isolating, with some agglutinative processes and maybe some polythesis.
Sample of Ghap'emaoCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m̥1 | m | n n̥2 | ɲ [ɲ̥]3 | ŋ ŋ̥ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ4 pʰ | b | t tʼ tʰ | d | [c]5 [cʼ]6 | [ɟ]7 | k kʼ kʰ | g | [q]8 | ʔ | ||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]9 | [β]10 | f | v | s | z | [ç]11 | ʝ12 | x | ɣ | [ʕ]13 | h | ||||||
| Affricate | p̪͡f14 p̪͡fʼ15 | t͡s16 t͡sʼ17 | [c͡ç]18 | k͡x19 k͡xʼ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l [l̥]20 | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ21 | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ʍ22 | w | [ɰ]23 | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]24 | |||||||||||||||||
- realisation of the /hm/ cluster
- realization of the /hn/ cluster
- allophone of /ŋ̥/
- realization of /'p/
- before front high vowels, allophone of /k/
- when before front high vowel, allophone of /kʼ/
- Before /i/, allophone of /g/
- free variation, allophone of /k͡xʼ/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /v/
- before /i/ and /y/, allophone of /h/
- realization of the /hj/cluster
- when in coda usually, may be realized as a preaspiration of the next consonant, allophone of /h/
- realusation of /hf/
- realization of /'f/
- after glottal fricative
- realization of the /'s/ or /'z/ cluster
- allophone of /kʰ/
- /hx/ is also realized as [kx]
- allophone of /ɬ/
- Realization of the /hl/ cluster
- realization of the /hw/ cluster
- before back vowels, allophone of /j/
- in unaccented syllabes, allophone of /d/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | ɨ | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||
| Mid | ə1 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
- Used for loan words and syllabic consonants
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ghap'emao. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Ghap'emaoOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | Ää/ɛ/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/, [ɟ]1 | GH gh/ɣ/ | Hh/h/ |
| HJ hj/ʝ/2 | HL hl/ɬ/3, [l̥] | HM hm/m̥/4 | HN hn/n̥/5 | HNG hng/ŋ̥/ | HNY hny[ɲ̥] | HW hw/ʍ/6 | Ii/i/ | Ïï/ɨ/ | Jj/j/, [ɰ]7 |
| Kk/k/, [c]8 | K' k'/kʼ/, [cʼ]9 | KH kh/kʰ/ | KX kx/k͡x/10 | KX' kx'/k͡xʼ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NJ nj/ɲ/ |
| Öö/ø/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | P' p'/pʼ/11 | PF pf/p̪͡f/12 | PF' pf'/p̪͡fʼ/13 | PH ph/pʰ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | T' t'/tʼ/ |
| TH th/tʰ/ | TS ts/t͡s/14 | TS' ts'/t͡sʼ/15 | Uu/u/ | Üü/y/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- Before /i/
- realization of the /hj/cluster
- Realization of the /hl/ cluster
- realisation of the /hm/ cluster
- realization of the /hn/ cluster
- realization of the /hw/ cluster
- before back vowels
- before front high vowels
- when before front high vowel
- /hx/ is also realized as [kx]
- realization of /'p/
- realusation of /hf/
- realization of /'f/
- after glottal fricative
- realization of the /'s/ or /'z/ cluster
