Lake Gamko Language [WNK]
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Lake Gamko Language
嚴居海語 [gamkohai go]
Lake Gamko Language嚴居海語 [gamkohai go]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Lake Gamko Language
Lake Gamko Language is a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family.
While the Lake Gamko Language has at most few loanwords from other langauges, it shows possible influences from substratum languages on its grammar, including putting adverbial phrases after the direct object, the use of definite article and the prominence of postnominal relative clauses.
There are three phonemic tones for single syllables said in isolation, but like Shanghainese, the use of tones are diminishing, and in the Lake Gamko Language, phrases and sentences have pitch accents rather than tones, sometimes even the pitch accents are not used.
The name of the Lake Gamko is from a substrate language speaking in the area.
While the Lake Gamko Language has at most few loanwords from other langauges, it shows possible influences from substratum languages on its grammar, including putting adverbial phrases after the direct object, the use of definite article and the prominence of postnominal relative clauses.
There are three phonemic tones for single syllables said in isolation, but like Shanghainese, the use of tones are diminishing, and in the Lake Gamko Language, phrases and sentences have pitch accents rather than tones, sometimes even the pitch accents are not used.
The name of the Lake Gamko is from a substrate language speaking in the area.
Language family relationships
Language treeChinese
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Lake Gamko Language
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Lake Gamko Language[view] About ChineseThe Sinitic languages,[2] often synonymous with the Chinese languages, are a language family frequently postulated as one of two primary branches of Sino-Tibetan.[3][4] The Bai languages may be Sinitic (classification is difficult);[5] otherwise Sini...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | [c]1 | [ɟ]2 | k kʷ | g gʷ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | [v]3 | θ4 | s | z | ʃ | [x]5 | [ɣ]6 | h hʷ | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | [d͡z]7 | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]9 | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /k/ when before or after front consonants, allophone of /k/
- allophone of /g/ when before front consonants, allophone of /g/
- in coda position, allophone of /p/
- merges with /s/ /t/ /ts/ in most dialects
- in coda position before voiceless consonants, allophone of /k/
- in coda position, allophone of /k/
- allophone of /z/
- between vowels, allophone of /d/
- in coda position, allophone of /t/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||||
| Open | ä | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Lake Gamko Language. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Lake Gamko LanguageOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ä/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e̞/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GU gu/gʷ/ | Hh/h/ | HW hw/hʷ/ | Ii/i/ |
| Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | LY ly/ʎ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ | QU qu/kʷ/ |
| Ss/s/, /s/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/1 | TS ts/t͡s/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/, [d͡z] | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- merges with /s/ /t/ /ts/ in most dialects
