Awnewo [LCW]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Awnewo
The name "awnewo" originally comes from "awne" friend and "uwo" to love.
Sound samples in Awnewo
Some sound samples of Awnewo. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
apφen ægirє ægʌ ɂen lєsn
Did you eat my food?
Did you eat my food?
ſєinanol ɂanu aȣnewosn
I speak English
I speak English
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | n | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | [t]1 | k | ʔ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸʷ | s | ʃ | ʒ | ɣ | h | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ɭ̝̌ʷ2 | ʎ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹʷ | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- word initial, allophone of /ɾ/
- retroflex (non-sibilant) fricative - best notation available in cws
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | ʏ | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Mid | [ə]2 | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɞ | ʌ | |||||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /ʌ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Awnewo. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AwnewoOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a a /ɑ/ | d d [t]1 | e e /ɛ/ | g g /ɣ/ | h h /h/ | i i /i/ | j j /ʒ/ | k k /k/ | l l /l/ | n n /n/ |
| o o /o/ | p p /p/ | r r /ɹʷ/ | ſ ſ /ʃ/ | s s /s/ | u u /u/ | w w /w/ | æ æ /æ/ | ð ð /ɭ̝̌ʷ/2 | ŋ ŋ /ŋ/ |
| ȣ ȣ /ʊ/ | ɂ ɂ /ʔ/ | ʌ ʌ /ʌ/ | ʎ ʎ /ʎ/ | ʏ ʏ /ʏ/ | f φ /ɸʷ/ | є є /e/ | ꝋ ꝋ /ɞ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- word initial
- retroflex (non-sibilant) fricative - best notation available in cws
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