Higashikan [HGK]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Higashikan
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Language family relationships
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[view] About ChineseThe Sinitic languages,[2] often synonymous with the Chinese languages, are a language family frequently postulated as one of two primary branches of Sino-Tibetan.[3][4] The Bai languages may be Sinitic (classification is difficult);[5] otherwise Sini...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ɳ]1 | ŋ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | pʰ | b bʱ | tʰ | d dʱ | kʰ | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | [ɸ]2 | [β]3 | sʰ | [ʂ]4 | ɕ [ɕʰ]5 | [ç]6 | [ʝ]7 | [x]8 | [ɣ]9 | h | [ɦ]10 | |||||
Affricate | t͡sʰ | d͡z | [t͡ɕʰ]11 | [d͡ʑ]12 | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | [ɭ]13 | |||||||||||||||
Lateral flap | ɺ | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
- After /ɭ/, allophone of /n/
- Before /u/ or /w/, allophone of /h/
- After a vowel and before /u/ or /w/, allophone of /h/
- After /ɭ/, allophone of /h/
- Before /i/ or /j/, allophone of /sʰ/
- Before /i/ or /j/, allophone of /h/
- After a vowel or /ŋ/ and before /i/ or /j/, allophone of /h/
- Before /ɯ/, allophone of /h/
- After a vowel and before /ɯ/ or after /ŋ/, allophone of /h/
- Between vowels, allophone of /h/
- Before /i/ or /j/, allophone of /t͡sʰ/
- Before /i/ or /j/, allophone of /d͡z/
- In syllable coda, allophone of /ɺ/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | y1 | ɯ | u | ||
Close-mid | ø̞2 | |||||
Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ||||
Near-open | ɐ |
- [ɰi] for older speakers
- [we̞] for older speakers
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Higashikan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
HigashikanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
ㄱ/g/ | ㄴ/n/ | ㄷ/d/ | ㄸ/dʱ/ | ㄹ/ɺ/ | ㅁ/m/ | ㅂ/b/ | ㅃ/bʱ/ | ㅅ/sʰ/ |
ㅆ/ɕ/ | ㅇ/ŋ/ | ㅈ/d͡z/ | ㅊ/t͡sʰ/ | ㅋ/kʰ/ | ㅌ/tʰ/ | ㅍ/pʰ/ | ㅎ/h/ | ㅏ/ɐ/ |
ㅐ/ɛ/ | ㅓ/ʌ/ | ㅔ/e̞/ | ㅗ/o̞/ | ㅚ/ø̞/1 | ㅜ/u/ | ㅡ/ɯ/ | ㅢ/y/2 | ㅣ/i/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- [we̞] for older speakers
- [ɰi] for older speakers