Ordos [ORD]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ordos
Ordos (known by its speakers as 塞語 Sakñu - Saka Language) is an Indo-European language spoken by around 2000 Ordos People living in the southern portion of the Ordos Loop. It is spoken by the descendants of the Ordos Culture of China, which survived in the harsh deserts in the plateau. The modern Ordos are primarily pastoral nomads like their ancestors, and have little direct contact with the Han Chinese due to the later being unwilling to settle in the area, and the Ordos being unwilling to leave the loop.
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Language family relationships
Language treeIndo-European
⤷ Proto-Indo-European
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Ordos
⤷ Proto-Indo-European
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Ordos[view] About Indo-EuropeanThis family tree includes only the main branches and the branches that are too small to be shown separately. See separate main branches for further detail.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ ŋʷ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | ʈ | ɖ | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | ʂ | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ʈ͡ʂ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | ɨ | u u: | |||
| Close-mid | o o: | |||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
