Koyal [KYL]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Koyal
Koyal's alignment system is inspired by austronesian and active/stative systems. It's inflection is isolating/concatenative, relying to a large degree on clitic particles that generally are monoexponential.
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Sample of Koyal[view] Iskal sama ta seren kanta? Utu ninni zara la vai.
Can you hear the stars singing? It is the oldest lullaby.[view all texts]
Can you hear the stars singing? It is the oldest lullaby.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | [ɱ]1 | n | [ɲ]2 | [ŋ]3 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | [ð]4 | s | ʃ | [ç]5 | x | [ɣ]6 | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | [w]7 | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /b/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | [i:] | [u:] | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||
| Close-mid | [e:] | [o:] | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Open | a | [ɑ:] | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | aw | ɛj | aj | ɔj |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Koyal. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KoyalOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/a/, [ɑ:] | Bb/b/, [w] | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/d/, [ð] | Ee/ɛ/, [e:] | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/, [ɣ] | Hh/x/, [ç] | Ii/ɪ/, [i:] | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/, [ɱ] | Nn/n/, [ɲ], [ŋ] | Oo/ɔ/, [o:] | Pp/p/ | Qq/t͡ʃ/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ʊ/, [u:] | Vv/ʋ/ | Zz/s/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
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