Koiwak [KOIW]
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Language type
Mixed
Place & SpeakersKoiwak is spoken by a population of 1 in Pundo.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Koiwak
Still very much a work in progress. It's a personal language with many very wide influences. I plan to write songs in this language eventually. Obviously I'll have to write a song about my "home land", Pundo.
Sample of Koiwak[view] We dapun id modas, / Cenkoi bi kte vuz. / La domdas vema, / La vud kte faza, / Ho sim id kte domdas. / Deci, gebi poe wi / We decso nuzos, / Ye vini wi poe we mulevdas / Fai wi vini la mulevdas gen we. / Ye loni wi mid wavdas, / Na, nemi wi de mulevdas. / Doiw la domdas, / La dindas ye la koidas bi kte, / Poe sem, poesemso, / Wus...[view all texts]
Sound samples in Koiwak
Some sound samples of Koiwak. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Vem wi ba baza vez.
Let's become alive again.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Let's become alive again.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Qi xeli qi hala han qi nuzi, ob mu danex han qi demi.
You know you will get what you need, if not necessarily what you ask for.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
You know you will get what you need, if not necessarily what you ask for.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Wi bu kaso moso, wi nuzum cok mas.
We were all alone, we didn't need much more.
We were all alone, we didn't need much more.
Mi kizi gok coi la klip coi la biesd, not mi kizim gok la pun.
I can see either the rock or the animal, but I can't see the person.
I can see either the rock or the animal, but I can't see the person.
La daucik moni la haem.
La haem moni la daucik.
The boy eats the pig. The pig eats the boy.
The boy eats the pig. The pig eats the boy.
La kezos fali la cunos.
The cats love the dogs.
The cats love the dogs.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | d | k | g | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ç | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | pw | bw | fw | sk | kw |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | ʉ | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɜ | ʌ | ɔ | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ | aʊ | ɔɪ | eɪ |
Stress informationSecond-to-last syllable (if the word has more than one syllable).
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Koiwak. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KoiwakOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ʌ/ | AI ai/aɪ/ | AU au/aʊ/ | Bb/b/ | BT bt/bw/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/, /e/ | EI ei/eɪ/ | EO eo/ɜ/ |
| Ff/f/ | FT ft/fw/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | IE ie/i/ | Jj/ç/ | Kk/k/ | KT kt/kw/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | OE oe/ɔ/ | OI oi/ɔɪ/ | Pp/p/ | PT pt/pw/ | Qq/x/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ |
| Uu/ʊ/ | UE ue/ʉ/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/ʃ/ | Xx/sk/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | |||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
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