Kulu [SPG]
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Registered by
Josetheidiot on 13 November 2015
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kulu
Undergoing Massive Typological Overhaul!
Sample of Kulu[view] Dis fambbad bbuenu belo nan alf bbuenu, sadede dë nan dëlxamai kumpatep.
We will get along just fine, though hopefully not too fine, because I am not looking for any new friends. End speech.[view all texts]
We will get along just fine, though hopefully not too fine, because I am not looking for any new friends. End speech.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeProto-Kulik
⤷ Proto-Kulik
⤷ West-Kulik
⤷ North-West Kulik
⤷ Jopakah
⤷ Fagurin
⤷ Di'atxe
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Kulu
⤷ Proto-Kulik
⤷ West-Kulik
⤷ North-West Kulik
⤷ Jopakah
⤷ Fagurin
⤷ Di'atxe
⤷
Kulu [view] kuv (kufe)This dialect is used in the western part of kuma. This dialect eliminates the animate/inanimate grammatical feature.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v vʷ | ð | s | z zʷ | ʃ | ʒ ʒʷ | χ χʷ | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ ɬʷ | |||||||||||||
| Trill | ʙ [ʙʷ] | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kulu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| KuluOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Øø/ʊ/ | Bb/b/ | BB bb/ʙ/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ʒ/ |
| JW jw/ʒʷ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | LW lw/ɬʷ/ | LX lx/ɬ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/χ/ |
| QW qw/χʷ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/ð/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/vʷ/ | Zz/z/ | ZZ zz/zʷ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
