Sonkhai [SONKA]
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Language type
A priori
Sonka
Buyuka
BalakiaSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Sonkhai
A language of the Trans-Ebo-Puzimm family spoken in Sonka, this language features ejectives, tones, and little fricatives.
Language family relationships
Language treeTrans-Puzimm
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Proto-Trans-Puzimm
⤷ Core Puzimm
⤷ "Ebontu"
⤷ North-East Puzimm
⤷ Ngo-Sonkhai
⤷ Sonkic
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Sonkhai
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Proto-Trans-Puzimm⤷ Core Puzimm
⤷ "Ebontu"
⤷ North-East Puzimm
⤷ Ngo-Sonkhai
⤷ Sonkic
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Sonkhai[view] About Trans-PuzimmA language family spoken in Sahar's Puzimm region. Also known as Trans-Ebo-Puzimm.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ | b | t tʼ | d | k kʼ | g | ||||||
| Fricative | s | [h]1 | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ɠ | |||||||||
- At the beginning of a syllable, allophone of /s/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: í: í | |||
| Close-mid | o o: ó: ó | |||
| Open | a a: á: á | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sonkhai. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| SonkhaiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| a a /a/ | aa aa /a:/ | b b /b/ | bˤ bh /ɓ/ | d d /d/ | dˤ dh /ɗ/ | g g /g/ | gˤ gh /ɠ/ | i i /i/ | ii ii /i:/ | k k /k/ |
| kˤ k' /kʼ/ | l l /l/ | m m /m/ | n n /n/ | ñ nh /ɲ/ | nk nk /ŋ/ | o o /o/ | oo oo /o:/ | p p /p/ | pˤ p' /pʼ/ | s s /s/ |
| t t /t/ | tˤ t' /tʼ/ | v w /w/ | y y /j/ | ā á /á/ | āā áá /á:/ | ī í /í/ | īī íí /í:/ | ō ó /ó/ | ōō óó /ó:/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
