lakak [LAKA]
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[Deactivated User] on 26 January 2020
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About lakak
Hi! This is my first time attempting to do a click language, so excuse my errors. Lakak is spoken by the Lakak people in the Central African Republic.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m m̃ mʰ | n ñ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | [b]1 | d | k k̃ kʰ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | s | [χ]2 | h hʰ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Click | ʘ ʘʰ | ǀ ǀʰ | ǃ ǃʰ | |||||||||||||
- when before nasalized vowel , allophone of /ʘ/
- allophone of /h/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i ĩ iʰ | u ũ uʰ | ||
| Close-mid | e ẽ eʰ | o õ oʰ | ||
| Open | a ã aʰ | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for lakak. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 lakakOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AH ah/aʰ/ | Ã ã/ã/ | Bb[b]1 | Cc/ǀ/ | CH ch/ǀʰ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | EH eh/eʰ/ | Ẽ ẽ/ẽ/ |
| Hh/h/ | HH hh/hʰ/ | Ii/i/ | IH ih/iʰ/ | Ĩ ĩ/ĩ/ | Kk/k/ | KH kh/kʰ/ | K̃ k̃/k̃/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| MH mh/mʰ/ | M̃ m̃/m̃/ | Nn/n/ | Ñ ñ/ñ/ | Oo/o/ | OH oh/oʰ/ | Õ õ/õ/ | Pp/ʘ/ | PH ph/ʘʰ/ | Qq/ǃ/ |
| QH qh/ǃʰ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Uu/u/ | UH uh/uʰ/ | Ũ ũ/ũ/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- when before nasalized vowel
