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Karifa
Qaarifull [qaːʀifuɬ]
Qaarifull [qaːʀifuɬ]
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Language type
Not specified
Place & SpeakersKarifa is spoken by a population of around 750,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Karifa
A northern inspired language spoken in the fictional United Republic of the Shawlands, in the northernmost, largest and most sparsely populated province of North Star
Sample of KarifaCan't find any yet.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɴ | |||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p pʼ | b | t tʼ | d | c | ɟ | k kʼ | g | q qʼ | ɢ | ʔ | |||||||||
Fricative | f | θ | ð | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | χ | ħ | h | ||||||||||
Affricate | q͡χ | |||||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||||||
Trill | ʀ |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | o o: | |||
Open | a a: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Karifa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
KarifaOrthography | ||||||||||
' a'a /ʔ/ | Aa a /a/ | AA aa aa /a:/ | Bb baa /b/ | Cc co /c/ | Dd daa /d/ | Ff fa /f/ | Gg gaa /g/ | GG gg gg /χ/ | GQ gq gqaa /ɢ/ | Hh uuhi /h/ |
HH hh hha /ħ/ | Ii i /i/ | II ii ii /i:/ | Jj jo /ɟ/ | Kk kaa /k/ | K' k' k'a /kʼ/ | Ll la /l/ | LL ll lla /ɬ/, /ɮ/ | Mm imm /m/ | Nn nu /n/ | NG ng ung /ɴ/ |
Oo o /o/ | OO oo oo /o:/ | OOI ooi ooi /i/ | Pp paa /p/ | P' p' p'aa /pʼ/ | Qq qaa /q/ | Q' q' q'a /qʼ/ | QQ qq qqa /q͡χ/ | Rr ro /ʀ/ | Šš ša /ʂ/ | Ss saa /s/ |
Tt taa /t/ | T' t' t'a /tʼ/ | Uu u /u/ | UO uo uo /u/ | UU uu uu /u:/ | Xx xa /χ/ | Yy ya /j/ | Zz zaa /z/ | Žž ža /ʐ/ | Ðð uð /ð/ | Þþ uþ /θ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |