Naga [HSS]
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Naga
Sst'xx'zz [s:tˢɪç:ɪɕ:]
NagaSst'xx'zz [s:tˢɪç:ɪɕ:]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Naga
Spoken by humanoid snake-people. Yup.
Grammar Notes:
All nouns belong to at least one noun class. These classes are based on the shape, form and structure of the noun.
E.g:
Air = Amorphous, Raised
Water = Liquid, Flat
River = Liquid, Flat
Meat = Compressible, Raised
Rock = Solid, Raised
Pebble = Solid, Flat
Grammar Notes:
- Tripartite arrangement (ERGErgative (case)
TRANS subject; agent, ACCAccusative (case)
TRANS direct object; patient, ABSAbsolutive (case)
TRANS object, INTR argument) - Polysynthetic
- Uses a number of different cases
- No set word order but usually SVO
- Uses a number of particles and modals as well as the standard affixes
- Primarily suffixing
- Marked transitivity on verbs
- Future, non-future tenses - affixes used to indicate other tenses and moods
- Polypersonal agreement on verbs for pronouns, noun class, number and case
All nouns belong to at least one noun class. These classes are based on the shape, form and structure of the noun.
E.g:
Air = Amorphous, Raised
Water = Liquid, Flat
River = Liquid, Flat
Meat = Compressible, Raised
Rock = Solid, Raised
Pebble = Solid, Flat
Sample of NagaCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Pharyngeal | Epiglottal | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
| Plosive | tˢ | c cʼ | ʔ1 | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | s s:: s::: [s̩::]2 sʼ s: [s̩:]3 [s̩]4 | ʃ ʃ: [ʃ̩:]5 [ʃ̩]6 | ɕ ɕ:: ɕ::: [ɕ̩::]7 ɕʼ ɕ: [ɕ̩:]8 [ɕ̩]9 | ç ç:: ç: | [x]10 | ħ | ʜ ʜ: | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s::ˢ t͡s:ˢ t͡sˢ | t͡ɕ t͡ɕʼ | c͡ç c͡ç:: c͡ç: | [k͡x]11 | t͡ɬ t͡ɬ: | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ȴ ȴ́: | ʎ ʎ́: | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j̥ | |||||||||||||||||
- Can only be in onset position before a vowel
- allophone of /s::/
- allophone of /s:/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ʃ:/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /ɕ::/
- allophone of /ɕ:/
- Between stops
- Syllable coda, allophone of /ç:/
- Between high vowels, allophone of /ħ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i í | ɨ ɨ̰́ ɨ́ | ɯ̈ ɯ̰̈́ ɯ̈́ | |||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Naga. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NagaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| '/ɪ/ | Áá/ɯ̈́/ | Aa/ɯ̈/ | A̋ a̋/ɯ̰̈́/ | Ċċ/cʼ/ | Cc/c/ | Éé/ɨ́/ | Ee/ɨ/ | E̋ e̋/ɨ̰́/ |
| Hh/ħ/, [k͡x]1 | Íí/í/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j̥/ | Ll/ȴ/ | Ss/s/ | Ṣṣ/sʼ/ | Śś/ʃ/ | Tt/tˢ/ |
| TÝ tý/t͡ɬ/ | Xx/ç/, [x]2 | Yy/ʎ/ | Ýý/ɬ/ | Zz/ɕ/ | Źź/ʜ/ | Żż/ɕʼ/ | Ɂɂ/ʔ/3 | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- Between high vowels
- Syllable coda
- Can only be in onset position before a vowel
