Kapoyccan [KPA]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kapoyccan
Kapoycçaǹ is an agglutinating, VSO language spoken by humans. It features a large consonant inventory and some derivational morphology. The native writing system is an abugida, with a supplemental alphabet.
Sample of Kapoyccan[view] Tocar ta ḩázan to tocaqar ta ḩázan sá. Di naţo se ta kén kém va kén kuçem.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.[view all texts]
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k | g | ʔ | |||||
Fricative | ɸ | β | θ | [ð]1 | s | z | ç | ʝ | x | [ɣ]2 | h | |||
Affricate | p͡ɸ | b͡β | t͡s | c͡ç | k͡x | |||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||
Approximant | [ɹ]3 | j | (w) |
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /l/
Vowels | Front | Near- back | Back | |||
Close | i | u | ||||
Near-close | ʊ | |||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||
Open | a | ɑ | [ɒ]1 |
Polyphthongs | ʊɪ | oɪ | ɑɪ | aɪ | eɪ |
- allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kapoyccan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
KapoyccanOrthography | ||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Çç/ç/ | Cc/c/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | Ḩḩ/x/, [ɣ] |
Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Mm/m/ | Ńń/ɲ/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ʔ/ | Ŕŕ/ʎ/ |
Rr/l/, [ɹ] | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Ţţ/θ/, [ð] | Uu/u/ | Vv/β/ | Ww/w/1 | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |
- loan words only