Pekalit [PKL]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Pekalit
Pekalit is a minimalist conlang created to be "as simple as possible" (while still maintaining a certain level of interest and functionality). It has a fairly small phoneme inventory, straightforwards phonology, very few inflectional morphemes and relatively few derivational ones as well. Word order is rigid and predictable. It uses a syllabry.
Sample of Pekalit[view] Rit qop pjekah sa horot sjos qerah kik.
Everything's warm when your heart grows cold.[view all texts]
Everything's warm when your heart grows cold.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
Nasal | m mʲ | n | ɲ | |||||||||
Plosive | p pʲ | t tʲ | k kʲ | ʔ | ||||||||
Fricative | s | ʃ | [ç]1 | h | ||||||||
Affricate | [t͡ʃ]2 | |||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||
Trill | r |
- final, allophone of /h/
- allophone of /kʲ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i | [u]1 | ||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]2 | |||||||
Close-mid | [e]3 | o̝ | ||||||
Mid | [ə]4 | |||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||
Open | ɑ |
- allophone of /o̝/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Pekalit. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
PekalitOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa/ɑ/, [ə] | Ee/ɛ/, [e] | Hh/h/, [ç]1 | Ii/i/, [ɪ] | Jj/ʲ/ | Kk/k/ | KJ kj/kʲ/, [t͡ʃ] | Ll/l/ | LJ lj/ʎ/ | Mm/m/ | MJ mj/mʲ/ | Nn/n/ |
NJ nj/ɲ/ | Oo/o̝/ | Pp/p/ | PJ pj/pʲ/ | Qq/ʔ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | SJ sj/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TJ tj/tʲ/ | Uu[u] | Yy/j/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- final
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