Nekunian [TSI]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nekunian
A proto-lang for a family. synthentic with a lot of fusion, a little bit of isolation.
Language family relationships
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p | t | k | |||||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ʃ | x | [h]2 | |||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- allophone of /n/ when it precedes /k/ or /h/, allophone of /n/
- intervocallic allophone of /x/, allophone of /x/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
Mid | (ə)1 | |||||||||
Near-open | æ | |||||||||
Open | a |
- almost always used in loanwords, very few grammatical words use the schwa
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nekunian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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Áá/a/ | Úú/u/ | Íí/i/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Aa/æ/ | Ee/e/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Tt/t/ | Kk/k/ |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ]1 | Rr/ɾ/ | Ll/l/ | Śś/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | Ff/f/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Hh/x/, [h]2 | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- allophone of /n/ when it precedes /k/ or /h/
- intervocallic allophone of /x/