Kaijan [YKJ]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of Kaijan[view] Nydúom ģus cu dúa dýpe ṭa sønnen e gai.
He sees a man with his dog by the stream.[view all texts]
He sees a man with his dog by the stream.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||
Plosive | p pʼ | b | t tʼ | d | [c]1 | [ɟ]2 | k kʼ | g | q | |||||
Fricative | s [sʼ]3 | z | ɕ | ʑ | x | ɣ | ||||||||
Affricate | t͡s [t͡sʼ]4 | d͡z | t͡ɕ [t͡ɕʼ]5 | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /ɣ/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /t͡s/
- allophone of /t͡ɕ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | y [y̙]1 | [ɯ]2 | u | ||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ʊ | |||||||
Close-mid | e | ø | [ɤ]3 | o | ||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||||
Open-mid | [ɞ]4 | ɔ | ||||||||
Open | a | ɶ |
- allophone of /y/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kaijan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
KaijanOrthography | |||||||||
a a /a/ | å å /ɔ/ | b b /b/ | c c /ɕ/ | d d /d/ | e e /ə/ | é é /e/ | g g /g/ | ģ ģ [ɟ] | h h /ɣ/ |
i i /ɪ/ | í í /i/ | j j /j/ | ḳ ḳ /kʼ/ | k k /k/ | ķ ķ [c] | l l /l/ | ļ ļ /ʎ/ | m m /m/ | ņ ņ /ɲ/ |
n n /n/ | o o /o/ | ṗ ṗ /pʼ/ | p p /p/ | q q /q/ | r r /r/ | s s /s/ | ṭ ṭ /tʼ/ | t t /t/ | u u /ɶ/, /ʊ/ |
ú ú /u/ | w w /w/ | x x /x/ | y y /ʏ/ | ý ý /y/ | z z /z/ | ź ź /ʑ/ | ø ø /ø/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |