Kichiyiquen [KCQ]
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Language type
Not specified
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
AchiyitqanaMinority
AchiyitqanaMinoritySpecies
Human/humanoid
About Kichiyiquen
basically a 
Kisaangan-aesthetic 
Achiyitqan-relative so I can plop it in Sahar
inb4 "kitchen"
step 1: resolve as many differences as possible to preserve as much KSGness while making realistically MKP
step 2: work a bit more on the fuggin proto
step 3: give up on the proto and make a few side-derivation scripts, probably
(current dictionary entries mostly for testing/aesthetics, liable to change slightly)
Kisaangan-aesthetic Achiyitqan-relative so I can plop it in Saharinb4 "kitchen"
step 1: resolve as many differences as possible to preserve as much KSGness while making realistically MKP
step 2: work a bit more on the fuggin proto
step 3: give up on the proto and make a few side-derivation scripts, probably
(current dictionary entries mostly for testing/aesthetics, liable to change slightly)
Sample of KichiyiquenCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeMaakpauean
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Makpauwean
⤷ Plains Maakpauean
⤷ Misitiingaa
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Kichiyiquen
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Makpauwean⤷ Plains Maakpauean
⤷ Misitiingaa
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Kichiyiquen[view] About MaakpaueanA language family spoken in the northeast of Mahavia, unrelated to the neighbouring East Mirarian languages, typified by polysynthetic, nominative-accusative languages with animacy distinctions.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
| Nasal | (m)1 | n n̩ | [ɲ]2 | [ŋ]3 | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | (p) | (b) | t tʼ | [d]4 | k kʼ kʷ | [g]5 [gʷ]6 | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | θ | [ð]7 | s s̩ | [z]8 | [ʃ]9 | ʒ | x | [ɣ]10 | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡ʒ | t͡ɬ t͡ɬʼ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l l̩ | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ ɬ̩ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ ɾ̩ | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/ and /w/
- allophone of /n/ and /j/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /kʷ/
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ʒ/
- allophone of /x/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | u ú [u̥]1 | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ ɪ́ [ɪ̥]2 | [ʊ̈]3 ʊ̥̈ | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ̃ ɛ̃́ [ɛ̥]4 | ɔ̃ ɔ̃́ [ɔ̥]5 | ||||||
| Open | ä ä́ [ḁ̈]6 | |||||||
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /ɪ/
- allophone of /ʊ̥̈/
- allophone of /ɛ̃/
- allophone of /ɔ̃/
- allophone of /ä/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kichiyiquen. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| KichiyiquenOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Áá/ä́/ | Aa/ä/ | Ćć/t͡ɬʼ/ | Cc/t͡ɬ/ | Dd/t/, [d] | Ẽẽ/ɛ̃/ | Éé/ɛ̃́/ | Gg/k/, [g] | Hh/h/ | Iı/ʊ̥̈/, [ʊ̈] | Ii/ɪ/ | Íí/ɪ́/ |
| Kk/kʼ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm[m]1 | Nn/n/, [ɲ]2, [ŋ] | Õõ/ɔ̃/ | Óó/ɔ̃́/ | Pp/p/3, [b]4 | QU qu/kʷ/, [gʷ] | Rr/ɾ/ | Śś/t͡s/ | Ss/s/, [z] | Tt/tʼ/ |
| Uu/u/ | Úú/ú/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/, [ɣ] | Yy/j/ | Zz/ʒ/, [ʃ] | Źź/d͡ʒ/ | Ŧŧ/θ/, [ð] | Ɂɂ/ʔ/ | Ɥɥ/ɬ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- allophone of /n/ and /w/, loan words only
- allophone of /n/ and /j/
- loan words only
- loan words only
