Leki [LEK]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Leki
Leki is intended to be a relatively simple language.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | x | h | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
- before /g/ or /k/, allophone of /n̪/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||
| Close-mid | e | [o]3 | ||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]4 | ɔ | ||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɔɪ | aɪ | ɛʊ | aʊ | ɛɪ | ɔʊ |
- after /a/, /e/ or /o/, allophone of /j/
- after /a/, /e/ or /o/, allophone of /w/
- at the end of words, allophone of /ɔ/
- in closed syllables, allophone of /e/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Leki. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 LekiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ee/e/, [ɛ]1 | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/, [ɪ]2 | Jj/t͡ʃ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/, [ŋ]3 | Oo/ɔ/, [o]4 | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/ʃ/ | Tt/t̪/ | Uu/u/, [ʊ]5 | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/s/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- in closed syllables
- after /a/, /e/ or /o/
- before /g/ or /k/
- at the end of words
- after /a/, /e/ or /o/
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