Pövantic [VIP]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of Pövantic[view] lerningaasjankuuvok taguusekuulogat pan tagmiolikne
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Language family relationships
Language treeKatapic
⤷ Proto-Katapic
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Katap'kiil
⤷ Katapic
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Pövantic
⤷ Proto-Katapic
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Katap'kiil⤷
Katapic⤷
Pövantic[view] About KatapicThe katapic language family is a family of closely related polysynthetic languages. The family is devided into two main branches with three sub-branches.
Main branches:
The Katapic branch is an older branch of the katapic family, and is th...
Main branches:
The Katapic branch is an older branch of the katapic family, and is th...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m m: | n n: | ŋ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p p: | t t: | k k: | [g]1 | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | ɣ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡s]2 | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l l: | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /t/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Close-mid | e: | o o: | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Open | ɑ ɑ: | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Pövantic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| PövanticOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/ɑ/ | AA aa/ɑ:/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EE ee/e:/ | Gg[g] | GX gx/ɣ/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ |
| KK kk/k:/ | Ll/l/ | LL ll/l:/ | Mm/m/ | MM mm/m:/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NN nn/n:/ | Oo/o/ | Öö/ə/ | OO oo/o:/ |
| Pp/p/ | PP pp/p:/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/, [t͡s] | TT tt/t:/ | Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ | Vv/w/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
