Kavinian [KAV]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kavinian
Kavinian is a agglutinative language spoken by 8 million people in Kavina and in small groups in neighbouring countries.
Sample of Kavinian[view] Shi noðe angerivak she yashan derjanat matend deru.
I went to my local supermarket to buy some groceries.[view all texts]
I went to my local supermarket to buy some groceries.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeKavi-Montic
⤷ Kameagan
⤷ Middle Kameagan
⤷ Kalian
⤷ Northern Kalian
⤷ Kavinian
⤷ Kameagan
⤷ Middle Kameagan
⤷ Kalian
⤷ Northern Kalian
⤷ Kavinian
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ɕ | h | ||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | o o: | |||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | |||
Open | a a: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kavinian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
KavinianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa a /a/ | Āā ā /a:/ | Bb ba /b/ | CH ch cha /t͡ɕ/ | Dd da /d/ | DH dh ða /ð/ | Ee e /ɛ/ | Ēē ē /ɛ:/ | Ff fe /f/ | Gg ge /g/ | Hh he /h/ |
Ii i /i/ | Īī ī /i:/ | Jj ji /d͡ʑ/ | Kk ki /k/ | Ll li /l/ | Mm mi /m/ | Nn ni /n/ | NG ng ngi /ŋ/ | Oo o /o/ | Ōō ō /o:/ | Pp po /p/ |
Rr ro /ɾ/ | Ss so /s/ | SH sh sho /ɕ/ | Tt to /t/ | TH th þo /θ/ | Uu u /u/ | Ūū ū /u:/ | Vv vu /v/ | Ww wu /w/ | Yy yu /j/ | Zz zu /z/ |
✔ Shown in correct order [change] |