Kohoen [KOHO]
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Language type
Other
Place & SpeakersKohoen is spoken by a population of around 107,000,000 in Kohoen.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kohoen
Kohoen is a language used by a group of people who live on a peninsula in Western Demetrea. It is an agglutinative language isolate with a similar sound to that of languages like Korean, Japanese and Manchu
Sample of Kohoen[view] 加 미 解석테코눈? / 치로扳코눈데 미 돍지. / 濬深더림니 慹 특치네, / 加 용 耳않으산 聶시리님니. / 仁諞 미 殘느典오눈, / 코먼 孟姑던마오, / 加 미 解섬니, 捨놐여 / / 那 零림니, 聲림니 / / 특치네 순 失오림니 .[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeŎkchiyōan
⤷ Proto Ŏkchiyōan
⤷ Old Ŏkchiyōan
⤷ Middle Ŏkchiyōan
⤷ Old Kohoen
⤷ Middle Kohoen
⤷ Classical Kohoen
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Kohoen
⤷ Proto Ŏkchiyōan
⤷ Old Ŏkchiyōan
⤷ Middle Ŏkchiyōan
⤷ Old Kohoen
⤷ Middle Kohoen
⤷ Classical Kohoen
⤷
Kohoen[view] About ŎkchiyōanAn isolated family containing only three major languages
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m mʷ mʲ | n nʷ nʲ | ŋ ŋʲ1 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t tʷ | d dʷ | k kʷ kʲ | g gʷ | ||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]2 | s | z | ɕ | ʑ3 | ç4 | [x]5 | h | ||||||
| Affricate | [t͡s]6 | [d͡z]7 | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l8 lʷ lʲ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w9 | ɰ | |||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ ɾʲ | |||||||||||||
- is perceived as a palatalized g
- only occurs before ɯ, allophone of /h/
- debated on whether this phoneme is an allophone of d͡ʑ, but in the main dialect (Naihonnoh) it isn't
- is perceived as a palatalized /h/
- only occurs before back vowels other than ɯ, allophone of /h/
- only occurs before ɯ, allophone of /t/
- only occurs before /ɯ/, allophone of /d/
- rare on its own, is usually geminated
- both this and ɰ are non-distinct from eachother and are considered the same sound in all dialects
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | ɯ ɯ: | ||||||||
| Near-close | ʏ1 | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | o o: | ||||||||
| Open-mid | ɔ | |||||||||
| Open | ä ä: | |||||||||
- does not appear often
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kohoen. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| KohoenOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ä/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ɕ/ | Dd/d/ | DÛ dû/dʷ/ | Ee/e/ | Ff[ɸ]1 | Gg/g/ | GY gy/ŋʲ/2 | GÛ gû/gʷ/ |
| Hh/h/, [x]3 | HY hy/ç/4 | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʑ/ | Kk/k/ | KY ky/kʲ/ | KÛ kû/kʷ/ | Ll/l/5 | LY ly/lʲ/ | LÛ lû/lʷ/ |
| Mm/m/ | MY my/mʲ/ | MÛ mû/mʷ/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NY ny/nʲ/ | NÛ nû/nʷ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ |
| RY ry/ɾʲ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ɕ/ | Tt/t/ | TÛ tû/tʷ/ | Uu/ɯ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZJ zj/ʑ/6 | Üü/ʏ/7 |
| Ŏŏ/ɔ/ | Ŭŭ/ʊ/ | '// | Āā/ä:/ | DZ dz[d͡z]8 | Ōō/o:/ | TS ts[t͡s]9 | Ūū/ɯ:/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- only occurs before ɯ
- is perceived as a palatalized g
- only occurs before back vowels other than ɯ
- is perceived as a palatalized /h/
- rare on its own, is usually geminated
- debated on whether this phoneme is an allophone of d͡ʑ, but in the main dialect (Naihonnoh) it isn't
- does not appear often
- only occurs before /ɯ/
- only occurs before ɯ
