Mwendani [AWD]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Mwendani
The language spoken by the mawadani, a tribal race of African wild dog people.
Sample of Mwendani[view] Yelaluwa, na yeyiriwa ka wtu kede tsishoo, taz'a kawezewa mogor, ba kaibawuwad mitsu.
Look, you didn't ask me for my opinion, but I'm old, so I'm giving it anyway.[view all texts]
Look, you didn't ask me for my opinion, but I'm old, so I'm giving it anyway.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɴ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | s | z | ʃ | h | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Click | ǃ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | [i]1 | [u]2 | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | o | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mwendani. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MwendaniOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ |
| Ii[i] | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ |
| Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu[u] | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ^/ǃ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
