Kǁxwngst [XWN]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kǁxwngst
Spoken in the Puzimmese mountains of western 
West Puzimmese Republic on the border with Ebo Nganagam.
Analytic mf, has a few clicks like the nearby Kõ languages, allows syllabic sonorants, and verbs are a closed category. CVCC boi. What's the sonority hierarchy?
There's productive click sandhi, where onset non-click consonants merge with a preceding word's stop into the corresponding click sharing their PoA and MoA.
Alveolars make dental clicks, velars make alveolar clicks, /l/ makes lateral click, labials round, nasals nasalise, and aspirates /t͡sʰ k͡xʰ/ make fricative back-released clicks (transcribed with a following [x]).
In the lower (southeastern) mountain slopes, clicks followed by a nasal nucleus are instead prenasalised and followed by /ʊ/.
/i: e: a: ɵ: u:/ versus /ɪ ɛ ɑ ɔ ʊ/ are variably distinguished through length, tongue root and/or vowel quality, depending on geolect.
West Puzimmese Republic on the border with Ebo Nganagam.Analytic mf, has a few clicks like the nearby Kõ languages, allows syllabic sonorants, and verbs are a closed category. CVCC boi. What's the sonority hierarchy?
There's productive click sandhi, where onset non-click consonants merge with a preceding word's stop into the corresponding click sharing their PoA and MoA.
Alveolars make dental clicks, velars make alveolar clicks, /l/ makes lateral click, labials round, nasals nasalise, and aspirates /t͡sʰ k͡xʰ/ make fricative back-released clicks (transcribed with a following [x]).
In the lower (southeastern) mountain slopes, clicks followed by a nasal nucleus are instead prenasalised and followed by /ʊ/.
/i: e: a: ɵ: u:/ versus /ɪ ɛ ɑ ɔ ʊ/ are variably distinguished through length, tongue root and/or vowel quality, depending on geolect.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Plosive | b | t | k | |||
| Fricative | β | s | x | |||
| Affricate | t͡sʰ | k͡xʰ | ||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||
| Blends | kǀx kǀxʷ | gǃ gǃʷ | ŋǁx ŋǁxʷ | kǃx kǃxʷ | kǁx kǁxʷ | ŋǃx ŋǃxʷ | kǁ kǁʷ | ŋǃ ŋǃʷ | kǀ kǀʷ | gǀ gǀʷ |
| ŋǁ ŋǁʷ | kǃ kǃʷ | ŋǀ ŋǀʷ | gǁ gǁʷ | ŋǀx ŋǀxʷ |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | u: | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e: | ɵ: | ||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
| Open | a: | ɑ | ||||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kǁxwngst. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KǁxwngstOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| a/ɑ/ | b/b/ | c/kǀ/ | d/t/ | e/ɛ/ | g/k/ | h/x/ | i/ɪ/ | k/k͡xʰ/ | l/l/ | m/m/ |
| n/n/ | o/ɔ/ | q/kǃ/ | s/s/ | t/t͡sʰ/ | u/ʊ/ | w/β/ | x/kǁ/ | aa/a:/ | ch/kǀx/ | chw/kǀxʷ/ |
| cw/kǀʷ/ | ee/e:/ | gc/gǀ/ | gcw/gǀʷ/ | gq/gǃ/ | gqw/gǃʷ/ | gx/gǁ/ | gxw/gǁʷ/ | ii/i:/ | nc/ŋǀ/ | nch/ŋǀx/ |
| nchw/ŋǀxʷ/ | ncw/ŋǀʷ/ | nq/ŋǃ/ | nqh/ŋǃx/ | nqhw/ŋǃxʷ/ | nqw/ŋǃʷ/ | nx/ŋǁ/ | nxh/ŋǁx/ | nxhw/ŋǁxʷ/ | nxw/ŋǁʷ/ | oo/ɵ:/ |
| qh/kǃx/ | qhw/kǃxʷ/ | qw/kǃʷ/ | uu/u:/ | xh/kǁx/ | xhw/kǁxʷ/ | xw/kǁʷ/ | ||||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
