Mexicano [MXK]
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Registered by
motanz on 23 November 2017
Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersMexicano is spoken by a population of around 42,000,000 in Mēxikko.
Species
Human/humanoid
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k kʷ | [g]2 | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]3 | [β]4 | s | ʃ | [x]5 [xʷ]6 | [h]7 | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | t͡ɬ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | [l]8 | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | [ʍ]9 | w | |||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]10 | |||||||||||||||
- before velar consonants, allophone of /n/
- between vowels, after a stressed syllable, allophone of /k/
- after a consonant, before a front vowel, allophone of /w/
- before front vowels, allophone of /w/
- in coda position, allophone of /k/
- in coda position, allophone of /kʷ/
- in coda position, allophone of /t/
- between vowels, allophone of /ɬ/
- after a consonant and in coda position, allophone of /w/
- between vowels, after a stressed syllable, allophone of /t/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i i: | [u]1 | ||||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]2 | [ʊ]3 | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||||||
| Open-mid | [ʌ]4 | |||||||||
| Open | ä ä: | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | [ɔɐ]5 | [oʊ]6 | [eɪ]7 | [ɪe]8 |
- in stressed syllables, allophone of /o:/
- in unstressed syllables, allophone of /i/
- in unstressed syllables, allophone of /o/
- in unstressed syllables, allophone of /ä:/
- in stressed syllables, allophone of /ä:/
- before labial consonants, allophone of /o:/
- in stressed syllables, allophone of /e:/
- at the beginning of words, allophone of /e:/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mexicano. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MexicanoOrthography | ||||||||||
| Kk ka /k/, [g]1, [x]2 | Nn ene /n/, [ŋ]3 | Tt te /t/, [ɾ]4, [h]5 | Ll ele /ɬ/, [l]6 | Mm eme /m/ | Pp pe /p/ | Ss ese /s/ | Xx xo /ʃ/ | Zz ze /t͡s/ | Cc ce /t͡ʃ/ | Qq qo /kʷ/, [xʷ]7 |
| TL tl tla /t͡ɬ/ | Ww wa /w/, [ʍ]8, [β]9, [ɸ]10 | Yy ye /j/ | Aa a /ä/ | Āā wēyāk a /ä:/, [ʌ]11, [ɔɐ]12 | Ee e /e/ | Ēē wēyāk e /e:/, [eɪ]13, [ɪe]14 | Oo o /o/, [ʊ]15 | Ōō wēyāk o /o:/, [u]16, [oʊ]17 | Ii i /i/, [ɪ]18 | Īī wēyāk i /i:/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | ||||||||||
- between vowels, after a stressed syllable
- in coda position
- before velar consonants
- between vowels, after a stressed syllable
- in coda position
- between vowels
- in coda position
- after a consonant and in coda position
- before front vowels
- after a consonant, before a front vowel
- in unstressed syllables
- in stressed syllables
- in stressed syllables
- at the beginning of words
- in unstressed syllables
- in stressed syllables
- before labial consonants
- in unstressed syllables
