Zāku [WEMA]
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Zāku
Zāku [t͡sɐ̃ku]*
ZākuZāku [t͡sɐ̃ku]*
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of ZākuCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | θ | s | ɕ | ç | x | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r1 | |||||||||||||||||
- varies r ~ ɾ between speakers
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Close-mid | e ẽ | o õ | ||||
| Mid | [ə]1 [ə̃]2 | |||||
| Near-open | [ɐ]3 [ɐ̃]4 | |||||
| Open | a ã | |||||
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /ẽ/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /ã/
Syllable StructureSyllable structure is (C)V(C).
Stress informationThe first syllable is stressed. This does not change the quality of the vowel, but rather the syllable is slightly louder.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Zāku. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ZākuOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Āā/ã/, [ɐ̃] | Aa/a/, [ɐ] | Dd/θ/ | Ēē/ẽ/, [ə̃] | Ee/e/, [ə] | Ff/f/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Īī/i:/ | Kk/k/ |
| Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Oo/o/ | Ōō/õ/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ʔ/ | Rr/r/1 | Ŕŕ/x/ | Śś/ɕ/ | Ss/s/ |
| Tt/t/ | Ūū/u:/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ç/ | Ýý/ʎ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/t͡s/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- varies r ~ ɾ between speakers
