Rowi [RHO]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Rowi
Rowi is a minority language spoken by the Rhomeëeti people, it is often thought to be similar to the Tuosa language, although they are unrelated.
Language family relationships
[edit] [view] Kele Azërri-Akshi (Adzerri-Akshi)Spoken by less then 1,000 people in isolated villages near and in Tuosa, greatly threatened by upper and lower dialects.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | [m]1 | [n]2 | [ɲ]3 | [ŋ]4 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p p̃5 | b | t t̃6 | d | c c̃7 | ɟ | k k̃8 | g | q | ʔ | ||||||
| Fricative | [s]9 | ʃ ʃʷ10 | ʝ11 | [h]12 | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡s]13 | t͡ʃ14 t͡ʃʷ15 | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | gb | [ŋm]16 | kp kp̃ |
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /c/
- allophone of /g/
- actually nasal release
- actually nasal release
- actually nasal release
- actually nasal release
- allophone of /t/
- Aksherri dialects only
- in some dialects only, otherwise /rj/
- allophone of /ʔ/
- allophone of /t/
- Aksherri dialects only
- Aksherri dialects only
- allophone of /gb/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i ĩ | ɯ ɯ̃ | u ũ | |
| Close-mid | e ẽ | ɤ ɤ̃ | o õ | |
| Open | ɑ ɑ̃ | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Rowi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 RowiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa a /ɑ/ | Bb bë /b/ | Dd dë /d/ | Ëë ë /ɯ/ | Ee e /e/ | Gg gë /g/ | Hh pahaytni /ʔ/ | Ii i /i/ | Kk ka /k/ | Ll lu /l/ | Mm ba noi /b/, [m] | Nn da noi /d/, [n] |
| Oo o /o/ | Öö ö /ɤ/ | Pp pa /p/ | Qq qa /q/ | Rr ru /ɾ/ | RR rr errë /r/ | Ss ta noi /t/1 | SH sh eshë /ʃ/2 | Tt ta /t/ | Uu u /u/ | Ww wa /w/ | Yy ya /j/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- loan words only
- Aksherri dialects only
