Ezine [ZNE]
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Ezine
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Language type
Not specified
Species
Human/humanoid
Language family relationships
Language treeNiger-Congo
⤷ Proto-Niger-Congo
⤷ Atlantic-Congo
⤷ Atlantic
⤷ Ezine
⤷ Proto-Niger-Congo
⤷ Atlantic-Congo
⤷ Atlantic
⤷ Ezine
[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 | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||
Plosive | p | b ᵐb | t | d ⁿd | c | ɟ ᶮɟ | k | g ᵑg | ʔ | |||||
Fricative | ɸ | v | s | z | h | |||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||
Implosive | ɓ | ɗ |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | u | ||
Close-mid | e | o | ||
Open | ɑ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ezine. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
EzineOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Ɓɓ/ɓ/ | Cc/c/ | Dd/d/ | Ɗɗ/ɗ/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
Jj/ɟ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | MB mb/ᵐb/ | Nn/n/ | ND nd/ⁿd/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NGG ngg/ᵑg/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | NYJ nyj/ᶮɟ/ |
Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ʔ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |