Chkwam [CKA]
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Chkwam
tykwamq [t͡skʷämʔ]*
Chkwamtykwamq [t͡skʷämʔ]*
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Language type
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Species
Human/humanoid
About Chkwam
Chkwam is an isolating, analytic language with ergative-absolutive alignment, with VS and SVO word orders. Morphology is reduced. There are several series of auxiliary verbs, that comprise copulas, possessive verbs, negation, focus, aspectuals and modals. Phonologically it has 6 oral and 4 nasal vowels and consonants have a voice distinction as well as palatalization and labialization. The ortography is deep as it shows a former state of the language with full vowels instead of secondary atticulations.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m mʷ | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | b bʷ | t | d | k kʷ | ʔ ʔʷ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f fʷ | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x xʷ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ɰ | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i ĩ | u ũ | ||||
| Close-mid | e ẽ | o | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Open | ä ä̃ | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Chkwam. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ChkwamOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ä/ | Ää/ä̃/ | Bb/b/ | BW bw/bʷ/ | Dd/d/ | DY dy/d͡z/ | Ee/e/ | Ëë/ẽ/ | Ff/f/ | FW fw/fʷ/ | Gg/ɰ/ |
| GW gw/w/ | GY gy/d͡ʒ/ | Hh/h/ | Ïï/ĩ/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | KW kw/kʷ/ | KY ky/t͡ʃ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | MW mw/mʷ/ |
| Nn/n/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Oo/o/ | Qq/ʔ/ | QW qw/ʔʷ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | SY sy/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TY ty/t͡s/ | Uu/u/ |
| Üü/ũ/ | Vv/v/ | VW vw/w/ | Xx/x/ | XW xw/xʷ/ | XY xy/ʃ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZY zy/ʒ/ | Ææ/ɛ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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