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Proto-Yasi
ya'se [jaʔse]*
ya'se [jaʔse]*
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Proto-Yasi
Proto-Yasi is the common ancestor of all Yasi languages, a small language family in Astanu.
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Language family relationships
Language treeYasi
⤷ Proto-Yasi
⤷ Proto-Yasi
[view] About YasiA small language family spoken in the Kalin islands.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p | t | k kʼ | ʔ | ||||||||||||
Fricative | β | s | ʐ | x | ħ | h | ||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
Implosive | ɓ |
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
Open | a |
- pretonic and word-final, allophone of /e/
- pretonic and word-final, allophone of /o/
Syllable Structure(C)(w, j)V(m,n,ŋ,p,t,k,ʔ,s,x,ħ,ɾ,l)
or the vowel can be long, disallowing coda consonants
/ŋ/ can only appear after a vowel in the same word
geminate consonants are not allowed
or the vowel can be long, disallowing coda consonants
/ŋ/ can only appear after a vowel in the same word
geminate consonants are not allowed
Stress informationstress falls on the antepenultimate mora, but if it's a coda the stress moves back one mora and is realized as a rising tone instead of a high tone
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Proto-Yasi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Proto-YasiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
'/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/ɓ/ | Cc/ħ/ | Dd/ɾ/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/ŋ/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/j/ |
Jj/t͡sʼ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/kʼ/ | Rr/ʐ/ |
Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/w/ | Vv/β/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/t͡s/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |