Wahala [WAAA]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Wahala
Wahala is a language spoken in the Asura Ocean in the island nation of the Republic of Isata. Wahala is a rather irrelevant language with only about 22,900 speakers worldwide. The language is split between two mutually understood dialects: the Northern Island dialect and the Southern Island dialect.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
Nasal | m m: | n n: | ŋ ŋ: [ŋʰ]1 [ŋʰ:]2 | |||||||||
Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | ||||||||
Fricative | f | s s: | x x: | [h]3 | ||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
Approximant | w |
- allophone of /ŋ/
- allophone of /ŋ:/
- allophone of /x:/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i í | u ú | ||||
Near-open | ɐ ɐ́ |
Polyphthongs | ɐu | ɐi |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Wahala. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
WahalaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
'/ʔ/ | Aa/ɐ/ | Áá/ɐ́/ | Ff/f/ | Hh/x/ | HH hh/x:/ | Íí/í/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | MM mm/m:/ |
Nn/n/ | NH nh/ŋ/ | NHH nhh/ŋ:/ | NN nn/n:/ | Pp/p/ | Ss/s/ | SS ss/s:/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Úú/ú/ | Ww/w/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |