Gwan [GWAN]
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Language type
Mixed
Place & SpeakersGwan is spoken by a population of around 1,500,000 in mehnah.
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of GwanCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | |||||||
| Nasal | m1 | n̪2 | ŋ3 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | k | g | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | θ | ð | s | [z]4 | x | ɣ | h | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s | [d͡z]5 | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ɫ | ||||||||||||
| Trill | ʀ | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Blends | ps | d̪z | ks | t̪s | bz | gz |
- Sometimes Syllabic
- Sometimes Syllabic
- Sometimes Syllabic
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /t͡s/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ̈̆ | ʊ̈ | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | e̞ | ə | o̞ | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɜ | ɔ | |||
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | ||||
| Open | ä | |||||
Syllable Structure(C²)V(C²)
Stress informationnon-fixed and contrastive.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Gwan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 GwanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a a /ä/ | b b /β/, /b/ | d d /d̪/, /ð/ | e e /e̞/ | g g /ɣ/, /g/ | h h /ə/ | i i /i/ | l l /ɫ/, /l/ | m m /m/1 | n n /n̪/2 |
| ŋ ŋ /ŋ/3 | o o /o̞/ | p p /p/, /ɸ/ | q q /k/, /x/ | r r /ʀ/, /ɾ/ | s s /s/, [z] | t t /θ/, /t̪/ | u u /u/ | y y /ɪ̈̆/ | z z /t͡s/, [d͡z] |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- Sometimes Syllabic
- Sometimes Syllabic
- Sometimes Syllabic
