Nakuashian [NYZ]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
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Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
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⤷ Nakuashian
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⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Nakuashian
[view] About GermanicThe Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of approximately 500 million people mainly in North America, Oceania, Western and Northern Europe. Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approxima...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
Nasal | m m: | n n̺1 n: | ɲ | ŋ2 | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p p: | b | t tʲ | d dʲ | k k: | g g: | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | s̺ s̺: | z̺ | (ʃ) | ʒ | ç | ʝ | x | ɣ | h | ||||||||
Affricate | t͡s̺ t͡s̺ʲ (t͡s:) | d͡z̺ d͡z̺ʲ | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l lˠ3 | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ4 ʋ̥ | j | ʍ | w | ɥ | |||||||||||||
Trill | r̝: r̆ |
Blends | jəʊ | jɛ | jɪ | (kw) | jo | wo |
- before s.
- before a velar consonant.
- before or after a velar.
- in dutch and german loanwords.
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i i: | y y: | ɨ ɨ: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | e: | o | ||||
Mid | ə | |||||
Open-mid | (ɛ) | œ œ: | ɔ: | |||
Open | a a: |
Polyphthongs | ai | oəi | iə | ɛj | ɛi1 ɛi:2 | ɪə | øə | au | uə | oe |
oə | iu |
- in the syllables ny, my, by, fy, vy and fry
- same rules as y.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nakuashian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
NakuashianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Ââ a verlengd /a:/ | Aa a /a/ | Bb be /b/ | Cc cappa /k/ | Ĉĉ ĉe /t͡ʃ/ | Dd de /d/ | Êê e verlengd /e:/ | Ee e /ɛ/ | Ff fe /f/ | Ĝĝ ĝe /d͡ʒ/ | Gg ge /g/ | Hh he /h/ |
Îî i verlengd /i:/ | Ii i /i/ | Jj je /j/ | Kk ke /k/ | Ll/lˠ/1, /l/ | Mm emma /m/ | Nn ne /n̺/2, /n/, /ŋ/3 | Ôô o verlengd /ɔ:/ | Oo o /o/ | Pp pe /p/ | Qq qu /k/4 | Rr erra /r̆/ |
Ss sigma /s̺/ | SSß estzet /s̺:/ | Tt te /t/ | Uu u /u/ | Ûû u verlengd /u:/, /u/5 | Vv ve /ʋ̥/ | Ww we /ʋ/6, /w/ | Ŷŷ ypsilon verleng /ɨ:/, /ɛi:/7 | Yy ypsilon /ɨ/, /ɛi/8 | Zz zeta /s̺/9, /z̺/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- before or after a velar.
- before s.
- before a velar consonant.
- loan words only
- loan words only
- in dutch and german loanwords.
- same rules as y.
- in the syllables ny, my, by, fy, vy and fry
- before a voiceless consonant.