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Nawkami
Ngawkamilani [,ŋaw.ka.mi.'la.ni]
NawkamiNgawkamilani [,ŋaw.ka.mi.'la.ni]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nawkami
Ngawkamilani is spoken among the ŋawkami people of the Manolu archipelago in the southern hemisphere of planet Màn. Its number of speakers is somwhere between 1000 and 3000 people.
Features:
- no gender;
- singular/plural distinction;
- nouns take different prefixes when they're subjects, direct and indirect objects;
- VOS word order;
- SVO in relative clauses;
- (C)(w, y, v)V(m, n, ŋ) syllable structure;
- base five number system.
Features:
- no gender;
- singular/plural distinction;
- nouns take different prefixes when they're subjects, direct and indirect objects;
- VOS word order;
- SVO in relative clauses;
- (C)(w, y, v)V(m, n, ŋ) syllable structure;
- base five number system.
Sound samples in Nawkami
Some sound samples of Nawkami. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
voŋe yamimi amyato lenwata
The girl who brought fish left.
The girl who brought fish left.
inike vomawtu letelo nivay yAybe.
vovi bo kiłeła nikawo yavay, ke vokwewo kiŋokyea yaŋelo.
ke voŋa...
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and d...
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and d...
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p | t̺ | k | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | w | ɰ | ||||||||
| Flap | ⱱ | |||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | aj | aw |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nawkami. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NawkamiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AW aw/aw/ | AY ay/aj/ | Bb/ⱱ/ | Ee/e/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Tt/t̺/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/ʋ/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Łł/ɰ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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