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Naal [NAAL]
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Typology New 176 words Naal
Naalu Bu'
[na:lu buʔ]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 3 September 2020
Language type A priori
Species Human/humanoid
About Naal Naal (Naalu Bu') is a classical language of the Agakic language family of the larger Kenasic family. Naal originated around the city state of Naal on the southern coast of the Agake Peninsula, and spread across the continent with the Naalic Empire. Naalic became a major cultural and literary language, serving as one of the liturgical langauges of the Huipso faith along side the Lu langauge of the faith's founder Hui.

Naal is a highly synthetic language characterized by split ergativity, a very prominent system of animate-inanimate nouns 3 sub genders, a base 20 number system, and highly agglutinative verbs with an animacy based declension system.
Sample of Naal[view] Ru iŕa'ń giibu, / Hasaagmalida mwamaar. / Ukuwida xabak̂ol. / Ek̂weeda mwaśul qaatzban hi giiz. / Twiisaa caz lacaqaab xo wagz;

Our Father in heaven, / May your name be honored. / May your kingdom come. / May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. / Give us today our daily bread; / And forgive us our debts, as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors. / And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. / For yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory / Forever, amen.
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Language family relationships
Language treeKenasic
 ⤷  Proto-Kenasic
  ⤷ Agakic
   ⤷  Proto-Agakic
    ⤷  Naal
[view] About KenasicThe Kenasic Languages are the languages spoken in and around the continent of Chēnà (Kenas).
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialDentalAlveolarPost-
Alveolar
PalatalLabio-
velar
VelarUvularPharyngealGlottal
Nasal m mʷ   n       ŋ      
Plosive p b   t d   c ɟ   k g q   ʔ
Fricative     s z ʃ ʒ     x ɣ ʁ ʕ h
Affricate     t͡s [d͡z]1 t͡ʃ [d͡ʒ]2            
Lateral approximant     l              
Lateral fricative     [ɬ]3              
Approximant         j w        
Click   ǀ [ⁿǀ]4 ǃ [ⁿǃ]5   ǂ [ᶮǂ]6          
  1. allophone of /t͡s/
  2. allophone of /t͡ʃ/
  3. word terminal allophone of /l/, allophone of /l/
  4. intervocalic form, allophone of /ǀ/
  5. intervocalic, allophone of /ǃ/
  6. intervocalic, allophone of /ǂ/
VowelsFrontBack
Close i iˀ i: u uˀ u:
Close-mid e eˀ e: o oˀ o:
Open a aˀ a:  
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Naal. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NaalOrthography [edit]
Aa/a/A' a'/aˀ/AA aa/a:/Bb/b/Cc/ǀ/Ćć/t͡ʃ/Dd/d/Ee/e/E' e'/eˀ/
EE ee/e:/Gg/g/Ĝĝ/ɣ/Ǵǵ/ɟ/Ğğ/q/Hh/h/Ii/i/I' i'/iˀ/II ii/i:/
Ḱḱ/c/Kk/k/K̂ k̂/x/Ll/l/Mm/m/MW mw/mʷ/Nn/n/Ńń/ŋ/Oo/o/
O' o'/oˀ/OO oo/o:/Pp/p/Qq/ǃ/Ŕŕ/ʕ/Rr/ʁ/Ss/s/Śś/ʃ/Tt/t/
TZ tz/t͡s/Uu/u/U' u'/uˀ/UU uu/u:/Ww/w/Xx/ǂ/Yy/j/Źź/ʒ/Zz/z/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
    Latest 8 related articles listed below.
    Naal: Nouns
    Overview of the function of Naal nouns
    21-Sep-21 00:52
    Naal: Voice 03-Jul-21 03:59
    Naal: Verbs
    Summary of Naal verb morphology
    13-Mar-21 04:14
    Typological information for Naal

    Base counting systemVigesimal (20)
    GendersOther animacy classes
    Morphological typologySynthetic
    Morphosyntactic alignmentSplit Ergative
    Primary word orderVSO

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