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Paja
Paja ["paZa]
Paja ["paZa]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Paja
A language created for a conlang in a week challenge.
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Other | |||||||||
Nasal | m [m:]1 | n [n:]2 ñ3 | [ŋ]4 | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p [p:]5 | b [b:]6 | t [t:]7 | d [d:]8 | k [k:]9 | g [g:]10 | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | θ | ð | s | [z]11 | ʃ | ʒ | ʁ | ||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l [l:]12 | ɫ [ɫ:]13 | ||||||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | [j]14 | ||||||||||||||||
Flap | [ɾ]15 |
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /n/
- Nasalizes the preceding vowel.
- Before velar sounds, allophone of /n/
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /ɫ/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /d/
Vowels | Front | Near- back | Back | |||
Close | i [ĩ]1 | |||||
Near-close | ʊ | |||||
Close-mid | e [e:]2 | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ [ɛ:]3 [ɛ̃]4 | [ʌ̃]5 | [ɔ]6 [ɔ:] [ɔ̃] | |||
Near-open | æ [æ̃]7 | |||||
Open | a [a:]8 | [ɑ̃]9 |
Polyphthongs | [ʊə̯]10 | aʊ̯ | ɔʊ̯ | [ɛə̯]11 | ɔɪ̯ | [ɛɪ̯]12 | aɪ̯ | [ɪə̯]13 |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /ʊ/
- allophone of /ɔ/
- allophone of /æ/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /ʊ/
- allophone of /æ/
- allophone of /æ/
- allophone of /i/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Paja. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
PajaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/θ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/e/ | Jj/ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
Nn/n/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/æ/ | Rr/ʁ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Vv/ʋ/ | Ww/ɫ/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Yy/i/ | Zz/ð/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |