Kelnya [KNY]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | [ʔ]1 | ||||||||||||
Fricative | β | s | ʂ | ɕ | ç | h | ||||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | ʈ͡ʂ | t͡ɕ | [q͡χ]2 | [t͡ɬ]3 | |||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | [ɬ]4 | ɮ | ||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
Trill | [r]5 | |||||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- May be inserted between vowels across word boundary or at the end of words that end in a vowel
- Word-initially, allophone of /q/
- Word-initially, allophone of /ɮ/
- Word-finally, allophone of /ɮ/
- Used to add emphasis, or in strong/angry speech as well as vocative speech, allophone of /ɾ/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | y | ɯ | u | ||
Close-mid | e | ø | ɤ | o | ||
Mid | ə | |||||
Open-mid | [ɛ]1 | [ʌ]2 | [ɔ]3 | |||
Open | ä |
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /ə/
- allophone of /o/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kelnya. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
KelnyaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa/ä/ | Bb/b/ | Ĉĉ/ʈ͡ʂ/ | Čč/t͡ɕ/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/, [ɛ] | Ęę/ə/, [ʌ] | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ |
Ll/ɮ/, [ɬ]1, [t͡ɬ]2 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ññ/ɲ/ | Ơơ/ɤ/ | Oo/o/, [ɔ] | Pp/p/ | Qq/q/, [q͡χ]3 | Rr/ɾ/, [r]4 | Šš/ɕ/ | Ŝŝ/ʂ/ | Ss/s/ |
Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ųų/y/ | Ưư/ɯ/ | Vv/β/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ç/ | Yy/j/ | Øø/ø/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- Word-finally
- Word-initially
- Word-initially
- Used to add emphasis, or in strong/angry speech as well as vocative speech