Nakaldi [NKLD]
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Nakaldi
Nakaldi [naɣaldi]*
NakaldiNakaldi [naɣaldi]*
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nakaldi
Generally head-marking and head-initial verb-heavy language with a smaller phonology. Things I’m experimenting with include alienability, relational nouns, converbs, and direct-inverse marking.
Sample of NakaldiCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | [p]1 | b | t | d | k | [g]2 | q | ʔ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | [β]3 | [ð]4 | s | [z]5 | ɕ | ʑ | [ʝ]6 | [ɣ]7 [ɣʷ]8 | [χ]9 | [ʁ]10 | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]11 | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /j/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /w/
- allophone of /q/
- allophone of /q/
- allophone of /t/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i i: | [ɨ]1 | u u: | |||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]2 | [ʊ]3 | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||||||
| Mid | [ə]4 | |||||||||
| Open-mid | [ɔ]5 [ɔ:]6 | |||||||||
| Near-open | [æ]7 [æ:]8 | |||||||||
| Open | a a: | [ɑ]9 [ɑ:]10 | ||||||||
| Polyphthongs | [əi]11 | [əu]12 |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /o:/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /e:/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /a:/
- allophone of /i:/
- allophone of /u:/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nakaldi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NakaldiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ |
| Qq/q/ | Ss/s/ | Šš/ɕ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/ʑ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | Ɲɲ/ɲ/ | ’/ʔ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
