Classical Ribang [RCV]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersClassical Ribang is spoken in Mangrove Area.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Classical Ribang
Classical Ribang is the modern descendant of Old Ribäng. The grammar is mostly the same, but pronounciation is quite different. There are a lot of dialects, spanning across the many islands of the Mangrove Area.
Language family relationships
Language treeMangro-Nomadic
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Mangro-Nomadic
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Old Ribäng
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Classical Ribang
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Mangro-Nomadic⤷
Old Ribäng⤷
Classical Ribang[view] About Mangro-NomadicThe Mangro-Nomadic language family encompasses several languages spoken in the Mangrove Region and beyond to the east. A common feature is high affix usage as well as gender.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ1 | |||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | h | |||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||
- Sometimes, between morphemes.
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɯ | [u]1 | |||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Open | ä | |||||
- allophone of /ɯ/
Stress informationStress always lies on the first syllable.
OtherNouns are sometimes distinguished by length. Then, the vowel is doubled.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Classical Ribang. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Classical RibangOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| -/ʔ/1 | a/ä/ | b/b/ | d/d/ | e/ɛ/ | é/e/ | f/f/ | g/g/ | ǧ/ɣ/ |
| h/h/ | i/i/ | k/k/ | l/l/ | m/m/ | n/n/ | ng/ŋ/ | o/o/ | p/p/ |
| r/ɾ/ | s/s/ | š/ʃ/ | t/t/ | u/ɯ/, [u] | v/v/ | x/x/ | z/z/ | ž/ʒ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- Sometimes, between morphemes.
