Roa [ROX]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Roa
Roa is a language spoken by the Roa people, who live in the dry and mountainous area of Roagwera
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ | n | ɳ | ɲ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ | b bʲ | t | d | ɖ | c cʷ | ɟ | k kʷ | g [gʷ]1 | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f fʲ | s | z | ʂ | ɕ | x | h | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | [d͡z]2 | [ʈ͡ʂ]3 | ɖ͡ʐ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | [ɭ]4 | ʎ | [ɫ]5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ɥ | |||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
- Only appears word-medially, allophone of /kʷ/
- allophone of /t͡s/
- allophone of /ɖ͡ʐ/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||
| Open | a a: | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Roa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 RoaOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Āā/a:/ | Bb/b/ | BJ bj/bʲ/ | Cc/ɖ͡ʐ/, [ʈ͡ʂ] | Dd/d/ | DJ dj/ɟ/ | Ee/e/ | Ēē/e:/ | Ff/f/ | FJ fj/fʲ/ |
| Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Īī/i:/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | KJ kj/c/ | KY ky/cʷ/ | Ll/l/ | LD ld/ɖ/ | LJ lj/ʎ/ |
| LN ln/ɳ/ | LS ls/ʂ/ | Mm/m/ | MJ mj/mʲ/ | Nn/n/ | NJ nj/ɲ/ | Ōō/o:/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | PJ pj/pʲ/ | Qq/kʷ/ |
| Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | SJ sj/ɕ/ | Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/, [d͡z] | Uu/u/ | Ūū/u:/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/ɥ/ | Zz/z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
