Nena [NYI]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nena
Nena (Nénaññuree) is an Amundic language spoken 7000 Nena people in Antarctica. Nena is one of the official languages of the Republic of Antarctica (Repoobireeg Gyeet'ookña)
Language family relationships
Language treeNyuric
⤷ Proto-Nyuric
⤷ Nuclear Nyuric
⤷ Insular Nyuric
⤷ Amundic
⤷ Nena
⤷ Proto-Nyuric
⤷ Nuclear Nyuric
⤷ Insular Nyuric
⤷ Amundic
⤷ Nena
[view] About NyuricThe Nyuric languages represent the vast majority of languages spoken in the West Antarctic Archipelago and the Western Coast of the Antarctic Mainland, and a select few to the southeast. Characteristics such as default ergative-absolutive morphosynt...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||
Plosive | p pʼ pʰ | t tʼ tʰ | k kʼ kʰ | |||||||||
Fricative | s sʼ | z | h | |||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||
Trill | r |
Blends | ks |
Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
Close | i: | u: | ||||||
Near-close | ʊ | |||||||
Close-mid | e: | o: | ||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
Near-open | æ | |||||||
Open | a: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nena. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
NenaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa/æ/, [ə] | Bb/p/ | Dd/t/ | Èè/ɛ/ | Ee/e:/ | Gg/k/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ə/ | Kk/kʰ/ |
K' k'/kʼ/ | Mm/m/ | Ññ/ɲ/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/pʰ/ | P' p'/pʼ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ |
S' s'/sʼ/ | Tt/tʰ/ | T' t'/tʼ/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ks/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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