Ngujap [NGJ]
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Ngujap
Buk Ñu Ghap [buk ŋu ghap]*
Buk Ñu Ghap [buk ŋu ghap]*
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[Deactivated User] on 20 January 2019
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ngujap
When Vietnamese and Toki Pona have a baby, this is what you get
Ngujap (or Buk Ñu Ghap; lit. "cold language") is an analytic artistic language I created to escape my comfort zone. I usually do agglutinative languages, and implement so many recurring features in my languages, and so this language is for me to be unique on many things.
Some standing features of Ngujap include:
Ngujap (or Buk Ñu Ghap; lit. "cold language") is an analytic artistic language I created to escape my comfort zone. I usually do agglutinative languages, and implement so many recurring features in my languages, and so this language is for me to be unique on many things.
Some standing features of Ngujap include:
- Tripartite alignment
- Creative derivation of words, e.g. banana literally translates to "yellow-moon fruit"
- No verb roots, i.e. verbs are expressed using nouns and adjectives (buy literally translates to "money")
- Nasal vowels!
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Language family relationships
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | ʃ | h | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i [ĩ]1 | u [ũ]2 | ||
Close-mid | e [ẽ]3 | o [õ]4 | ||
Open | a [ã]5 |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ngujap. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
NgujapOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ññ/ŋ/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ |
Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |