Alaskan Minkéic [TRSIT]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersAlaskan Minkéic is spoken by a population of around 40,000 in Alaskaqjukonuit.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Alaskan Minkéic
Tersiati, better known as Alaskan Minkéic, is one of the two the most divergent of the Minkéic languages.
Sample of Alaskan MinkéicCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeMinkéic
⤷ Proto-Minkéic
⤷ Dáaton
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Alaskan Minkéic
⤷ Proto-Minkéic
⤷ Dáaton
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Alaskan Minkéic[view] About MinkéicThe Minkéic languages are a family of Amerindianic languages closely related to the Algic, Penutian, and Eskaleut languages of the United States and Canada. They are known for a high degree of polysynthesis, ergativity, long/short vowel distinction, ...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Epiglottal | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ɴ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | t tˤ | k kˤ | q qˤ | ʡ | ʔ | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | [ʂ]1 | x | χ | ʜ | h | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | k͡x | q͡χ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ɫ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | ɰ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ̥ | ɾ | [ɽ̊]2 | [ɽ]3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ʜʢ4 |
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ɾ̥/
- allophone of /ɾ/
- actually the affricate ʡ͡ʜ. Suggests a possible connection to Haida
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | ʉ | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | o | |||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Alaskan Minkéic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Alaskan MinkéicOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa ah /ɑ/ | Ää äh /æ/ | Cc ce /t͡s/ | CH ch cha /x/ | CI ci cia /t͡ʃ/ | Ee eh /ɛ/ | Ëë ëh /ə/ | Hh aeč /h/ | Ii ih /ɪ/ | Jj jä /ɰ/ |
| Ḵḵ aḵa /ʡ/ | Kk ka /k/ | K' k' k'a /k͡x/ | KG kg akg /kˤ/ | KH kh kha /χ/ | Ll el /ɫ/ | Mm ma /m/ | Nn en /n/ | Ṇṇ aṇ /ŋ/ | NN nn nna /ɴ/ |
| Oo oh /o/ | Qq qü /q/ | Q' q' q'a /q͡χ/ | QG qg qgü /qˤ/ | Rr ra /ɾ/, [ɽ̊], [ɽ] | RH rh/ɾ̥/ | Ss es /s/, [ʂ] | SI si sia /ʃ/ | Tt et /t/ | TG tg etg /tˤ/ |
| Uu ju /u/ | Üü jü /ʉ/ | Ww wa /w/ | Xx axa /ʔ/ | X̂ x̂ x̂a /ʜ/ | X̱ x̱ x̱ä /ʜʢ/1 | Łł ła /ɬ/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- actually the affricate ʡ͡ʜ. Suggests a possible connection to Haida
