Chauku [CHK]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Chauku
A little agglutinative:
Poshupacunawi okanet ming pokuptookita.
po-shu-pacu-nawi
3SThird person singular (person)
neither speaker nor addressee-PSTPast (tense)
action occurred before moment of speech-take-DUBDubitative mood (mood)
expresses doubt o-kan-e-t
POSSPossessive (case)
owns, has-hat-EEpenthetic
something 'meaningless' inserted for structural reasons-ACCAccusative (case)
TRANS direct object; patient mi-ng
2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you)=GENGenitive (case)
possessive po-kup-too-kita
3SThird person singular (person)
neither speaker nor addressee-toss-play-PURPurposive
in order to, for the purpose of
Maybe they took your hat to play catch.
Hewahe poa hesi'ukita.
he-wahe
IMPImperative (mood)
command.2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you)-be.slow poa
dance he-siqu-kita
IMPImperative (mood)
command.2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you)-learn-PURPurposive
in order to, for the purpose of
Dance slowly so you can learn.
Poshupacunawi okanet ming pokuptookita.
po-shu-pacu-nawi
3SThird person singular (person)
neither speaker nor addressee-PSTPast (tense)
action occurred before moment of speech-take-DUBDubitative mood (mood)
expresses doubt o-kan-e-t
POSSPossessive (case)
owns, has-hat-EEpenthetic
something 'meaningless' inserted for structural reasons-ACCAccusative (case)
TRANS direct object; patient mi-ng
2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you)=GENGenitive (case)
possessive po-kup-too-kita
3SThird person singular (person)
neither speaker nor addressee-toss-play-PURPurposive
in order to, for the purpose of
Maybe they took your hat to play catch.
Hewahe poa hesi'ukita.
he-wahe
IMPImperative (mood)
command.2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you)-be.slow poa
dance he-siqu-kita
IMPImperative (mood)
command.2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you)-learn-PURPurposive
in order to, for the purpose of
Dance slowly so you can learn.
Sample of ChaukuCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeHaspic
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Haspuri
⤷ Proto-Kaquanic
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Proto-Chaukic
⤷ Old Chauku
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Chauku
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Haspuri⤷ Proto-Kaquanic
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Proto-Chaukic⤷ Old Chauku
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ChaukuPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ1 | ||||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||
- only phonemic V_V
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Chauku. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| ChaukuOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Ee/e/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | LL ll/ɬ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ʔ/1 | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- only phonemic V_V
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