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Ikto
Ikto [ɪkto]*
IktoIkto [ɪkto]*
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Language type
Joke language
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ikto
This language started out as a joke, but it may evolve into something a bit more serious.
NOTE FOR SELF - TYPOLOGY:
This language is underlyingly head-initial, VOS, moving up the object. It is fusional with nearly gone object agreement. Tense, aspect, and mood are fused in a clitic. It has no number. It uses mainly adpositions. It is nom-acc syntactically.
NOTE FOR SELF - TYPOLOGY:
This language is underlyingly head-initial, VOS, moving up the object. It is fusional with nearly gone object agreement. Tense, aspect, and mood are fused in a clitic. It has no number. It uses mainly adpositions. It is nom-acc syntactically.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | [b]2 | t | [d]3 | k | [g]4 | ||||||||||
| Fricative | ð̞ | s | ɕ | ɣ̞ | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | [d͡z]5 | t͡ɕ | [d͡ʑ]6 | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- Before velars, allophone of /n/
- In voiced environments, allophone of /p/
- In voiced environments, allophone of /t/
- In voiced environments, allophone of /k/
- In voiced environments, allophone of /t͡s/
- In voiced environments, allophone of /t͡ɕ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | y: | uᵝ: | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e: | o | ||||||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
| Near-open | [æ]2 | ɐ | ||||||||
| Open | ä: | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɛɐ | ɔu | ʊɪ | oɪ | oɐ | ɛɪ | äɪ |
- Unstressed, allophone of /ɪ/
- Before [r], allophone of /ɛ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ikto. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 IktoOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Áá/ä:/ | Aa/ɐ/ | Dd/ð̞/ | Éé/e:/ | Ee/ɛ/, [æ]1 | Gg/ɣ̞/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/, [ə]2 | Íí/i:/ | Jj/j/ |
| Kk/k/, [g]3 | KJ kj/t͡ɕ/, [d͡ʑ]4 | Ll/l/ | LJ lj/ʎ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ]5 | NJ nj/ɲ/ | Oo/o/, /ɔ/ | Pp/p/, [b]6 | Rr/ɾ/ |
| Ss/s/ | SJ sj/ɕ/ | Tt/t/, [d]7 | Uu/ʊ/ | Úú/uᵝ:/ | Vv/ʋ/ | Ýý/y:/ | Yy/ʏ/ | Zz/t͡s/, [d͡z]8 | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- Before [r]
- Unstressed
- In voiced environments
- In voiced environments
- Before velars
- In voiced environments
- In voiced environments
- In voiced environments
