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Federate Northern
Ipfootsekagato'apiit
[i.pɸɐu.t͡se.kɐ.xɐ.to.ʔɐ.pɐit]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 9 September 2016
Language type A priori
Species Human/humanoid
About Federate Northern Note to self:
Verbs are formed by declining nouns, e.g.

(1) "footing" = "doing what a foot does", meaning standing or walking,
(2) "footing" = "using a foot", meaning walking,
(3) "foot" = "being a foot", meaning you're a foot. Why would you be a foot? That's stupid.

Another example:

(1) "roofing" = sheltering, shielding.
(2) "roofing" = taking shelter.
(3) "roof" = being a roof.

And one more:

(1) "Taxi-driving" = driving a taxi.
(2) "Taxi-driving" = riding in a taxi.
(3) "Taxi-driver" = being a taxi driver (but not necessarily driving it right now.)
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Latest vocabulary
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Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialAlveolarPost-
Alveolar
RetroflexVelarGlottal
Nasal m n   ɳ ŋ  
Plosive p t [tʼ]1   ʈ k ʔ
Fricative ɸ s   ʂ x  
Affricate p͡ɸ t͡s t͡ʃ ʈ͡ʂ k͡x  
Lateral approximant   [l]2   ɭ    
Approximant   ɹ        
Click   ǃ        
  1. used after 'weak' vowels, allophone of /ʈ/
  2. used only at the start of words, allophone of /ɹ/
VowelsFrontCentralBack
Close i   u
Close-mid e   o
Near-open   ɐ  
Polyphthongs ɐu ɐi ui
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Federate Northern. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Federate NorthernOrthography [edit]
'/ʔ/Dd/ʈ/Ee/e/Ff/ɸ/Gg/x/Ii/i/Kk/k/Ll/ɹ/Mm/m/Nn/n/
NG ng/ŋ/NJ nj/ɳ/Oo/o/Pp/p/Qq/ǃ/Ss/s/Tt/t/Uu/u/Ww/ɭ/Zz/ʂ/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
    Typological information for Federate Northern

    Pronoun personsOther
    Primary word orderVSO
    Number of pronominal casesFour cases
    Animacy distinctionsAnimate/Inanimate

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