Sawaa [SHW]
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Sawaa
Sawá [sɐwa:]*
Sawá [sɐwa:]*
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of SawaaCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p p: | b | t̪ t̪: | d̪ | k k: | g | (ʔ) | |||||||||
Fricative | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | h | ||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
Close-mid | e: | o: | ||||
Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||||
Near-open | ɐ | |||||
Open | a: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sawaa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
SawaaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
'/ʔ/1 | Aa/ɐ/ | Áá/a:/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d̪/ | DH dh/ð/ | Ee/e̞/ | Éé/e:/ | Gg/g/ |
Hh/h/ | Íí/i:/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/ | Óó/o:/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ |
Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t̪/ | TH th/θ/ | Úú/u:/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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