West Kaala [WKAA]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
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Language family relationships
Language treeMahavic
⤷
Proto-Mahavic
⤷ Common Mahavic
⤷
Old Mahavic
⤷ West Mahavic
⤷ Pauna-Kaala
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Proto-Kaala
⤷
West Kaala
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Proto-Mahavic⤷ Common Mahavic
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Old Mahavic⤷ West Mahavic
⤷ Pauna-Kaala
⤷
Proto-Kaala⤷
West Kaala[view] About MahavicThe Mahavic languages constitute the largest branch of the East Mirarian language family.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m m: | n n: | ɲ ɲ: | ŋ ŋ: | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p p: | b b: | t t: | d d: | c c: | ɟ ɟ: | k k: | g g: | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ:]1 | [β:]2 | f | v | θ θ: | ð ð: | s s: | z z: | ʃ | ʒ | [ç]3 | [ʝ]4 | [x]5 | [ɣ:]6 | [ħ]7 | h | ||||||
| Affricate | [t͡s]8 | [d͡z]9 | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | [c͡ç]10 | [ɟ͡ʝ]11 | [k͡x]12 | [g͡ɣ]13 | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | [ɭ]14 | [ʎ]15 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ɹ]16 | [ɻ]17 | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /p:/
- allophone of /b:/
- allophone of /j/
- allophone of /j/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /g:/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /c:/
- allophone of /ɟ:/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /ɾ/
- allophone of /ɾ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | ɨ | ʉ | u | |
| Close-mid | e | [ɵ]1 | o | |||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]2 | [ʌ]3 | [ɔ]4 | |||
| Near-open | æ | |||||
| Open | [a]5 | [ä]6 | ɒ | |||
| Polyphthongs | uo | əä | ʉä | ɨe | ɔæ | ie | ʉe | oe | oɒ | ɨɵ |
| ea | ʉɵ | yo |
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /ə/
- allophone of /ə/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /æ/
- allophone of /æ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for West Kaala. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| West KaalaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Ää/æ/, [ä], [a] | Åå/o/, [ɔ] | Aa/ɒ/, [ʌ] | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/, [d͡z] | Ee/e/, [ɛ] | Ff/f/ | Ǧǧ/ɟ/ | Gg/g/, [g͡ɣ], [ɣ:] |
| Hh/h/, [ħ], [x] | Ii/i/ | Ïï/ɨ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/, [k͡x], [x] | Ǩǩ/c/ | Ll/l/, [ɭ], [ʎ] | Mm/m/ | Ññ/ɲ/ | Nn/n/ |
| Oo[ɵ] | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/, [ɻ], [ɹ] | Šš/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/, [t͡s] | Uu/ʉ/, /u/ | Üü/y/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ |
| Yy/j/, [ʝ], [ç] | Zz/z/ | Ðð/ð/ | Þþ/θ/ | Łł/ɬ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | Əə/ə/ | Ʒʒ/ʒ/ | Ɂɂ/ʔ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
