Aakan [AAKAN]
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Aakan
Áıkanhauṇḳóın [ˌa:kən̪həʉˈᵑkʼɔ:n̪]
Áıkanhauṇḳóın [ˌa:kən̪həʉˈᵑkʼɔ:n̪]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Aakan
Liturgical language.
Sample of Aakan[view] dumaıḥjéıeṭuı hatúıṭuı, koeṇtúse hatúıṭuı ḳaıváıtéı-kjuımóıge.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.[view all texts]
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Epiglottal | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p | t̪ | d̪ | k kʼ | g | |||||||||||
Fricative | v | ð | s̪2 | ʒ | x | ʜ | h h̪͆ | |||||||||
Click | ǃ |
- allophone of /n/ before velars
- voiceless form of /ð/ but sibilant
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | y1 | ʉ2 | u3 | |||
Close-mid | e4 | o | ||||
Mid | ə5 | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ6 | ||||
Open | a |
- stressed short u
- unstressed short u
- both stressed and unstressed long u
- long e
- unstressed a
- long o
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Aakan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
AakanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
a/ə/1, /a/ | c/h̪͆/ | d/d̪/ | e/e/2, /ɛ/ | g/g/ | h/h/ | j/ʲ/ | k/k/ | m/m/ | n/n̪/, [ŋ]3 | o/o/, /ɔ/4 | p/p/ |
s/s̪/5 | t/ǃ/ | u/y/6, /u/7, /ʉ/8 | v/v/ | x/x/ | z/ð/ | ı/:/ | ḥ/ʜ/ | ḳ/kʼ/ | ṇ/ⁿ/ | ṭ/t̪/ | ẓ/ʒ/ |
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- unstressed a
- long e
- allophone of /n/ before velars
- long o
- voiceless form of /ð/ but sibilant
- stressed short u
- both stressed and unstressed long u
- unstressed short u
Additional NotesAcutes (á, é, ó, ú) are used to mark stress, and when vowels are followed by ı they become long. Doubled consonants are geminate and do not use ı.