Kagocha [KAO]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kagocha
Daklawedian is an artlang/slightly-a posteriori lang spoken in Daklawedi, a concountry I made. It's loosely based on the Athabaskan languages, the Ojbwean languages, the dialects of Inuktitut, and Haida, plus some things from other languages of North America (particularly Mayan hieroglyphs) and whatever I happen to find interesting on any given day. Features include:
- Both vowel and consonant harmony, which sometimes work together and sometimes don't
- An emphasis on verbs, with more verbs than nouns and more ways to inflect verbs than to inflect nouns
- No adjective, they're replaced with verbs (*doggo is vv cute --> doggo cutes vv much)
- Two writing systems, a shorthand syllabary and a complex hieroglyphic system
- Distinguishing between animate (including otherwise-inanimate things that are holy and therefore animate, like certain mountains and waterfalls) and inanimate (which, in certain contexts, can include otherwise-animate things, e.g. shunned people and things)
- Both vowel and consonant harmony, which sometimes work together and sometimes don't
- An emphasis on verbs, with more verbs than nouns and more ways to inflect verbs than to inflect nouns
- No adjective, they're replaced with verbs (*doggo is vv cute --> doggo cutes vv much)
- Two writing systems, a shorthand syllabary and a complex hieroglyphic system
- Distinguishing between animate (including otherwise-inanimate things that are holy and therefore animate, like certain mountains and waterfalls) and inanimate (which, in certain contexts, can include otherwise-animate things, e.g. shunned people and things)
Sample of KagochaCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | ɴ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | [b]2 | tʼ tʰ | d̥ | kʼ kʼʷ kʷ kʰ kʰʷ | g̥ | qʼ qʼʷ qʷ qʰ qʰʷ | ɢ̥ | ʔ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | [β]3 | s | z | ʃ | x xʷ | ɣ4 | χ χʷ | ɦ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡sʼ t͡sʰ | d͡z̥ | t͡ʃʼ | d͡ʒ̥ | t͡ɬʼ | d͡ɮ d͡ɮ̥ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
- Allophone of /n/ before velars
- Prevocalic allophone of [m]
- Intervocalic allophone of [m]
- Usually realized as [ɰ̝]
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | í: ì: í ì | ú: ù: ú ù | ||||
| Mid | é̞: è̞: é̞ è̞ | ə́ ə̀ | ó̞: ò̞: ó̞ ò̞ | |||
| Near-open | ɐ́: ɐ̀: ɐ́ ɐ̀ | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kagocha. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KagochaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| 7/ʔ/ | Áá/ɐ́/ | Aa/ɐ̀/ | ÁÁ áá/ɐ́:/ | AA aa/ɐ̀:/ | CCH cch/t͡ʃʼ/ | CH ch/d͡ʒ̥/ | Dd/d̥/ | DZ dz/d͡z̥/ | DⱠ dⱡ/d͡ɮ/ | Éé/é̞/ |
| Ee/è̞/ | ÉÉ éé/é̞:/ | EE ee/è̞:/ | Ḡḡ/ɣ/1 | Gg/g̥/ | Hh/ɦ/ | Ii/ì/, /j/ | ÍÍ íí/í:/ | II ii/ì:/ | Í í/í/ | Kk/kʰ/ |
| KHW khw/kʰʷ/ | KK kk/kʼ/ | KKW kkw/kʼʷ/ | KW kw/kʷ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ]2 | NQ nq/ɴ/ | Oo/ò̞/ | Óó/ó̞/ | ÓÓ óó/ó̞:/ |
| OO oo/ò̞:/ | Qq/qʰ/ | QQ qq/qʼ/ | QQW qqw/qʼʷ/ | QW qw/qʷ/ | QWH qwh/qʰʷ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/tʰ/ | TS ts/t͡sʰ/ | TT tt/tʼ/ |
| TTS tts/t͡sʼ/ | TTŁ ttł/t͡ɬʼ/ | TŁ tł/d͡ɮ̥/ | Úú/ú/ | Uu/ù/ | UU uu/ù:/ | ÚÚ úú/ú:/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | XW xw/xʷ/ | X̱ x̱/χ/ |
| X̱W x̱w/χʷ/ | Ýý/ə́/ | Yy/ə̀/ | Zz/z/ | Łł/ɬ/ | Ǥǥ/ɢ̥/ | Ⱡⱡ/ɮ/ | ||||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- Usually realized as [ɰ̝]
- Allophone of /n/ before velars
