Yatic [YAI]
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[Deactivated User] on 1 January 2019
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Yatic
Daughter language of Pövantic, being more polysynthetic and more complex.
Language family relationships
Language treeKatapic
⤷ Proto-Katapic
⤷ Katap'kiil
⤷ Katapic
⤷ Pövantic
⤷ Yataksi
⤷ Yatic
⤷ Proto-Katapic
⤷ Katap'kiil
⤷ Katapic
⤷ Pövantic
⤷ Yataksi
⤷ Yatic
[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 | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Other | |||||||
Nasal | m m: | n n: | ŋ | |||||||||||
Plosive | p p: | t t: | k k: | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | s | [ʂ]1 | ɣ | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | [ɫ]2 | ||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ ɾ: |
- Mostly found in words from Pövantic ending in Vr, allophone of /s/
- allophone of /l/
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 Yatic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
YaticOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/ɑ/ | AA aa/ɑ:/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EE ee/e:/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Kk/k/ | KK kk/k:/ | 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/ | RR rr/ɾ:/ |
Ss/s/ | Šš[ʂ]1 | Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | TT tt/t:/ | Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ | Vv/w/ | Yy/j/ | Łł[ɫ] | Ǥǥ/ɣ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- Mostly found in words from Pövantic ending in Vr