Yitekel [YKE]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersYitekel is spoken by a population of around 5,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Yitekel
Yitekel is a Japonic language spoken by around 5,000 people on the island of Palau. Yitekel is an altlang where some Okinawans fled from the Kingdom of Ryukyu during the Japanese invasion of Ryukyu and landed on Palau where they gained strong influence from Palauan. Is also in the same universe as
Formosan Creole.
Yitekel is a Japonic language spoken by around 5,000 people on the island of Palau. Yitekel is an altlang where some Okinawans fled from the Kingdom of Ryukyu during the Japanese invasion of Ryukyu and landed on Palau where they gained strong influence from Palauan. Is also in the same universe as
Formosan Creole.
Language family relationships
Language treeJaponic
⤷ Proto-Japonic
⤷ Ryukyuan
⤷ Northern Ryukyuan
⤷ Okinawan
⤷ Old Yitekel
⤷ Middle Yitekel
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Yitekel
⤷ Proto-Japonic
⤷ Ryukyuan
⤷ Northern Ryukyuan
⤷ Okinawan
⤷ Old Yitekel
⤷ Middle Yitekel
⤷
Yitekel[view] About JaponicThe Japonic language family includes the Japanese language spoken on the main islands of Japan as well as the Ryukyuan languages spoken in the Ryukyu Islands. The family is widely accepted by linguists, and the term "Japonic languages" was coined by ...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ1 | ŋ2 | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k | g | ʔ | |||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β3 | [θ]4 | ð5 | s | ɕ | ç6 | ɣ | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z7 | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | (l) | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ɰ | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r̥ | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Blends | mji |
- before /i/
- allophone of /n/ before /g/
- in between vowels
- in unstressed syllables, allophone of /ð/
- adjacent to /s/
- before /i/
- in between vowels
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | [y]1 | [ɯ]2 | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | ||||||||
| Mid | o̞ | |||||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]3 | [œ]4 | ɔ | |||||||
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | ||||||||
| Open | [ä]5 | |||||||||
- allophone of /ø/
- allophone of /ʊ/
- allophone of /æ/
- allophone of /ø/
- allophone of /ɐ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Yitekel. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| YitekelOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ɐ/, [ä] | Ąą/æ/, [ɛ] | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ɕ/ | Dd/ð/1, /d/, [θ]2 | DZ dz/d͡z/3 | Ee/e/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/ɣ/, /g/ | GJ gj/ɟ/ |
| Hh/ç/4 | Ii/i/, /ɪ/, [y] | Jj/d͡ʑ/ | Kk/k/ | KJ kj/c/ | Ll/l/5 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, /ŋ/6, /ɲ/7 | Oo/o̞/, /ɔ/ | O̧ o̧/ø/, [œ] |
| Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/, /r̥/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ɕ/ | Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Uu/u/, /ʊ/, [ɯ] | Vv/β/8 | Ww/ɰ/ | Yy/j/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- adjacent to /s/
- in unstressed syllables
- in between vowels
- before /i/
- loan words only
- allophone of /n/ before /g/
- before /i/
- in between vowels
