Nehan [NEHAN]
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Language type
Other
Place & SpeakersNehan is spoken by a population of around 1,000,000 in Nehan.
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of Nehan[view] hī'chyō'ūn tsī tsīn'ūn ī'n'ūn tsū gā'me
I am eating bread and crying on the floor.[view all texts]
I am eating bread and crying on the floor.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeElemental.
⤷ Proto Elemental
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Proto Nehan-Margul (Proto Fire Elemental)
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Nehan
⤷ Proto Elemental
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Proto Nehan-Margul (Proto Fire Elemental)⤷
NehanPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | (v) | s | z | ʃ | [ʒ]2 | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | p̪͡f | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | (l)3 | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | (ʙ)4 | r | ||||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /d͡ʒ/
- allophone of /r/
- allophone of /b/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||
| Mid | (ə) | |||||
| Open-mid | (ʌ)1 | |||||
| Open | ɑ ɑ: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ɑe: | ɑu: | ɑi: | ei: | ɑo: | oi: |
- allophone of /ə/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nehan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| NehanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| ' wā'to ba'ze /ʔ/ | Āā nā'ā'do /ɑ:/ | Aa ā'do /ɑ/ | ĀĒ āē āēt /ɑe:/ | ĀĪ āī āīch /ɑi:/ | ĀŌ āō āō'e /ɑo:/ | ĀŪ āū āūrn /ɑu:/ | Bb byi /b/ | CH ch chī'shā /t͡ʃ/ | Dd chī /d/ |
| DZ dz dyī'ji /d͡z/ | Ee ē'i'to /e/ | Ēē nā'ē'i'to /e:/ | ĒĪ ēī ēī'na /ei:/ | Ff ē'fi /f/ | Gg ji'ga /g/ | Hh ē'chyā /h/ | Īī nā'ī'chsi /i:/ | Ii ī'chsi /i/ | Jj jyē /d͡ʒ/ |
| Kk kēn /k/ | Mm e'myā /m/ | Nn e'no /n/ | NG ng[ŋ] | Ōō nā'ōn /o:/ | Oo ōn /o/ | ŌĪ ōī ōīn'ki /oi:/ | Pp psī /p/ | PF pf psī'fu /p̪͡f/ | Rr ēr /r/ |
| Ss e'zu /s/ | SH sh shkwī /ʃ/ | Tt tsī /t/ | TS ts tsūn /t͡s/ | Ūū nā'rūn /u:/ | Uu ūn /u/ | Vv vwāī /v/1 | Ww dū'rū /w/ | Yy wāī /j/ | Zz dzī /z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- loan words only
