Sharpa [HPS]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersSharpa is spoken by a population of around 170,000 in Ukraine (Chernihiv oblast, Sumy oblast).
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sharpa
The Sharpa language is spoken primarily by the Sharpa who settled in the present-day Chernihiv and Sumy oblast (Ukraine), who migrated in the 12th century from the territory of the present-day Udmurt Republic (Russia). Over the course of its existence, the Sharpa language became heavily assimilated by Slavic languages and is now an endangered language
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Epiglottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ʜ | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʲ | t͡ʃ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɽ | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ja | jo | ju | je |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sharpa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SharpaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ää/ja/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Ćć/t͡sʲ/ | Čč/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Éé/je/ |
| Ëë/jo/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/ʜ/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Łł/ʎ/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ńń/ɲ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Ṕṕ/pʲ/ | Rr/r/ | Ŕŕ/ɽ/ | Ss/s/ |
| Šš/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Üü/ju/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/ɪ/ | Y̆ y̆/w/ | Žž/ʒ/ | Zz/z/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
