Niwano [WTE]
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Language type
Other
Place & SpeakersNiwano is spoken by a population of 79,903,948 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Niwano
Niwan is a language spoken on the Niwan (or Riwan, Hiwan) archipelago, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about 1500 kilometers (500 miles) west of Japan. It is spoken by a people of sapients, mostly Sokkinoko, Tiger people and Humans.
The Sokkinoko people have feline features, but some features that aren’t in most anthropomorphic species, like multiple ears in some populations. A lot of people within the population have two different ear types, long and hanging and short and cattish/canine like ears. There are some with a deformity that triggers in 6% of the population in which both types of ears are present, leading to the 4-ear deformity that’s common in certain families. Heterochromia is more common in the population, at a whopping 9.990%.
The Sokkinoko people have feline features, but some features that aren’t in most anthropomorphic species, like multiple ears in some populations. A lot of people within the population have two different ear types, long and hanging and short and cattish/canine like ears. There are some with a deformity that triggers in 6% of the population in which both types of ears are present, leading to the 4-ear deformity that’s common in certain families. Heterochromia is more common in the population, at a whopping 9.990%.
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Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m mʷ | n nʷ | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t tʰ1 | d | k kʲ kʰ2 | g gʲ | ||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]3 | f | s | z | ɕ | [ʑ]4 | ç | x5 | h | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s6 | d͡z7 | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l8 | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ɰ | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ ɾʲ | |||||||||||||
- rare
- rare
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /d͡ʑ/
- only occurs when h is geminated
- only occurs before u and sometimes ô
- only occurs before u, o and occasionally ô
- only occurs when r is geminated and at the end of syllables
| Vowels | Front | Near- back | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɯ | ||||
| Near-close | ʊ | |||||
| Close-mid | ø | |||||
| Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||||
| Open-mid | ʌ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Niwano. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NiwanoOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Čč/t͡ɕ/ | CH ch/t͡ɕ/ | Dd/d/ | DZ dz/d͡z/1 | Ee/e̞/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GY gy/gʲ/ | Hh/h/ |
| HH hh/x/2 | HY hy/ç/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʑ/, [ʑ] | Kk/k/ | KH kh/kʰ/3 | KY ky/kʲ/ | Ll/l/4 | Mm/m/ | MÜ mü/mʷ/ | Nn/n/ |
| NG ng/ŋ/ | NÜ nü/nʷ/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Öö/ø/ | Ôô/ʌ/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | RY ry/ɾʲ/ | Ss/s/ | Šš/ɕ/ |
| SH sh/ɕ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/tʰ/5 | TS ts/t͡s/6 | Ûû/ʊ/ | Uu/ɯ/ | Ww/ɰ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- only occurs before u, o and occasionally ô
- only occurs when h is geminated
- rare
- only occurs when r is geminated and at the end of syllables
- rare
- only occurs before u and sometimes ô
