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Christam
Quirixtam [kiɾiɕtã]

Quirixtam [kiɾiɕtã]
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Language type
Creole
Species
Human/humanoid
About Christam
Christam (キリシタン語 in Japanese) is a Portuguese-based creole spoken by the descendants of the Hidden Christians of Japan. Its use has been in decline for centuries in favour of Japanese. Christam has no standardised orthography, those who are familiar with the liturgical Portuguese used by the Hidden Christians use this orthography or a simplified form of it (as seen on this site), others will use an orthography based on Japanese romaji, hiragana, or katakana.
Sample of Christam[view] Todo umam ta naxe ribere i com bioudou na jiguinidaje i na quenri. Ta dota razam i conxenxa i debe comporota pa co outoro na espirito je faracherenidaje.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[view all texts]
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
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Latin
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Christam
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ȵ]1 | [ŋ] | ||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
Fricative | [ɸ]2 | s | z | [ɕ]3 | [ʑ]4 | [ç]5 | h | |||||||
Affricate | [t͡s]6 | [d͡z]7 | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ ɾʲ |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /d͡ʑ/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i ĩ | u ũ | ||||
Mid | e̞ e̞: ẽ̞ | o̞ o̞: õ̞ | ||||
Open | ä ä̃ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Christam. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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Aa/ä/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/s/, /k/, [ɕ] | Dd/d/, [z], [d͡z], [d͡ʑ], [ʑ] | Ee/e̞/ | Ff/h/, [ɸ], [ç] | Gg/d͡ʑ/, /g/, [ʑ] | Hh// | Ii/j/, /i/ | Jj/d͡ʑ/, [ʑ] | Ll/ɾ/ | Mm/m/ |
Nn/n/, [ȵ] | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/k/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/z/, /s/, [ɕ], [ʑ] | Tt/t/, [t͡ɕ], [t͡s] | Uu/u/, /w/ | Vv/b/ | Xx/ɕ/ | Zz/z/, [d͡ʑ], [ʑ], [d͡z] | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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