Nakava [NKV]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of Nakava[view] Kavasa, zaza nakavive nakava-ha, marifi kavasatu-ha, du kavasa, zaza nakavive nakavi-pa, marifi kavasati-pa.
One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people.[view all texts]
One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b ᵐb | t | d ⁿd | k | g ᵑg | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v ⁿv | s | z ⁿz | ʃ | ʒ ⁿʒ | x | ɣ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | y | u | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ | |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nakava. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NakavaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| '// | Aa/ʌ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | CG cg/d͡ʒ/ | Dd/d/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ |
| Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | LS ls/ɬ/ | LZ lz/ɮ/ | Mm/m/ | MB mb/ᵐb/ | MV mv/ⁿv/ | Nn/n/ | ND nd/ⁿd/ |
| NG ng/ŋ/ | NGG ngg/ᵑg/ | NZ nz/ⁿz/ | NZH nzh/ⁿʒ/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ɣ/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ |
| TS ts/t͡s/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/y/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
