Kidabsi [TVYE]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersKidabsi is spoken by a population of around 14,000 in Amcakta.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kidabsi
K'idabsi is a language spoken in a fictional French colony in West Africa, it can use the scripts of Latin, N'ko, or the native featural abjad, Ip'omsa, it is not inherently inspired by any preexisting language, so I have it as a priori, Coyiskee n;diyo afhomm pisehn p'ap'a p'apa! (I hope you have good luck / a good day )
Language family relationships
Language treeNiger-Congo
⤷ Proto-Niger-Congo
⤷ Mande
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Kidabsi
⤷ Proto-Niger-Congo
⤷ Mande
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Kidabsi[view] About Niger-CongoThe Niger-Congo languages are the most geographically widespread language family of Africa. Behind the Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan languages, they are the third largest language family regarding number of native speakers. They may also be the larg...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m m: | n n: | ɲ | ŋ ŋ: | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ ᵐp | b ᵐb | t tʼ ⁿt | d ⁿd | k kʼ ᵑk | g ᵑg | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ ɸ: | f f: | v v: | θ θ: | s s: | z z: | ʃ ʃ: | h h: | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l l: | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||
| Open | a a: | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ | ɔo | oi |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kidabsi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| KidabsiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa xa /a/ | Bb be /b/ | Cc si /t͡ʃ/ | Dd de /d/ | Ee xe /e/ | Ff ehf /f/ | Gg ge /g/ | Hh ec // | Ii xi /i/ |
| Jj je /d͡ʒ/ | Kk ke /k/ | Ll ehl /l/ | Mm ehm /m/ | Nn ehn /n/ | Oo xo /o/ | Pp pi /p/ | Ss ehs /s/ | Tt te /t/ |
| Uu xu /u/ | Vv ve /v/ | Xx ehks /h/ | Yy igehk /j/ | Zz ze /z/ | ' a'am // | ; semikolon // | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
