Shiakai [HIA]
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Shiakai
Híakaí [ɕí.àˈkà.í]
Híakaí [ɕí.àˈkà.í]
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[Deactivated User] on 18 April 2016
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Shiakai
Híakaí is a (mostly/aiming to be at least semi) realistic a priori language spoken... somewhere. Its primary features include a relatively small phoneme inventory, extensive use of vowel height-based ablaut, overall head-initiality, and a high-low tone distinction.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||
Fricative | s | [ɕ]1 | h | |||||||||
Affricate | [t͡ɕ]2 | [d͡ʑ]3 | ||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | |||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- before front vowels, allophone of /h/ and /s/
- before front vowels, allophone of /t/
- before front vowels, allophone of /d/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | í ì | ú ù | ||||
Mid | é̞ è̞ | ó̞ ò̞ | ||||
Open | ä́ ä̀ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Shiakai. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
ShiakaiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Áá/ä́/ | Aa/ä̀/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/è̞/ | Éé/é̞/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ì/ | Íí/í/ | Kk/k/ |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Óó/ó̞/ | Oo/ò̞/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ù/ | Úú/ú/ | Vv/ʋ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |