Federate Northern [KEO]
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Ipfootsekagato'apiit [i.pɸɐu.t͡se.kɐ.xɐ.to.ʔɐ.pɐit]
[view flag info] Federate Northern
Ipfootsekagato'apiit [i.pɸɐu.t͡se.kɐ.xɐ.to.ʔɐ.pɐit]
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[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.)
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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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
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 |
- used after 'weak' vowels, allophone of /ʈ/
- used only at the start of words, allophone of /ɹ/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
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] |