chabaa [TXABA]
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Language type
Engineered Language (Englang)
Place & Speakerschabaa is spoken by a population of around 10,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About chabaa
Txabaa is spoken in Igbo Metaand the surrounding regions as a lingua franca and natively the fishtown region of St Monica.
Sample of chabaa[view] On ko basi yu, ko on konso de sa sai jiya yon miyen téyi me wen tin mi?
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?[view all texts]
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | [ɲ]1 | ŋ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | b | t | d | ɟ | k | g | [ʔ]2 | |||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ʃ | ʒ | h | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | ɹ | j | w |
Blends | kp | gb |
- allophone of /j/
- allophone of /t/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i ĩ | u ũ | ||
Close-mid | e | o | ||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ | ||
Open | a ã |
Syllable StructureCVC syllables are allowed, but there is a strong preference for open syllables so there are few codas.
Vowel elision often occurs in compound words.
Vowel elision often occurs in compound words.
Stress informationTxabaa is syllable timed, so there is no vowel reduction in rapid speech.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for chabaa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
chabaaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa Aa ha /a/ | Bb Bb bi /b/ | Dd Dd di /d/ | Éé Éé hé /ɛ/ | Ee Ee he /e/ | Ff Ff fi /f/ | Gg Gg gi /g/ | GB gb GB gb gbi /gb/ | Hh Hh hi /h/ |
Ii Ii hi /i/ | Jj Jj ji /ɟ/ | Kk Kk ki /k/ | Ll Ll li /l/ | Mm Mm mi /m/ | NN nn NN nn unn /ŋ/ | Oo Oo ho /o/ | Óó Óó hó /ɔ/ | Pp Pp pi /kp/ |
Rr Rr ri /ɹ/ | Ss Ss si /s/ | Tt Tt ti /t/ | TX tx TX tx txi /t͡ʃ/ | Uu Uu hu /u/ | Ww Ww wi /w/ | Xx Xx xi /ʃ/ | Yy Yy yi /j/ | Zz Zz zi /ʒ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |