Kavahiri [KVR]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kavahiri
Loosely inspired by Arabic and a variety of African languages. (Very loosely.)
Language family relationships
[view] About KafficA once-larger family that now contains only one healthy language and a handful of moribund ones.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ɲ]1 | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p [pʼ]2 | b | t tʼ | d | [c]3 [cʼ]4 | [ɟ]5 | k kʼ | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | θ | ð | s | z | [ç]6 | [ʝ]7 | ʕ | h | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | [c͡ç]8 | k͡x | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [j]9 | [w]10 | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Click | (ʘ) (ʘ̃) | (ǃ) (ǃ̃) | ||||||||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | [ʄ]11 | ɠ | ||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /tʼ/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /z/
- allophone of /t͡s/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /ɗ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | [y]1 | u | |||
| Near-close | [ɪ]2 | [ʏ]3 | ||||
| Close-mid | [o]4 | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kavahiri. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KavahiriOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Ḃḃ/ɓ/ | Cc/t͡s/, [c͡ç] | Dd/d/, [ɟ] | Ḋḋ/ɗ/, [ʄ] | Ff/ɸ/ | Ġġ/ɠ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ |
| Ll/l/ | Ḿḿ/ʘ̃/1 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ɲ] | Ńń/ǃ̃/2 | Pp/p/, [pʼ] | Qq/kʼ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/, [ç] | Ṫṫ/tʼ/, [cʼ] | Tt/t/, [c] | Uu/u/ |
| Vv/β/ | Ẃẃ/ʘ/3 | Ww[w] | Xx/ʕ/ | Ýý/ǃ/4 | Yy[j] | Zz/z/, [ʝ] | Đđ/ð/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | Ŧŧ/θ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Kavahiri Grammar
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