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Híakaí
[ɕí.àˈkà.í]
Registered by [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.
Sample of Shiakai[view] Nitu híakaía.

I speak English
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Latest vocabulary
síntapwhat
kuókuvcold
mopuadjfat
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
AlveolarAlveolo-
palatal
VelarGlottal
Nasal m   n      
Plosive p b   t d   k g  
Fricative     s [ɕ]1   h
Affricate       [t͡ɕ]2 [d͡ʑ]3    
Approximant   ʋ        
Flap     ɾ      
  1. before front vowels, allophone of /h/ and /s/
  2. before front vowels, allophone of /t/
  3. before front vowels, allophone of /d/
VowelsFrontCentralBack
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/
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