Gicu [GIC]
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Gicu
gicu [gicu]
Gicugicu [gicu]
Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 17 June 2017
Language type
Engineered Language (Englang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Gicu
Gicu is a minilang designed to have 64 words, no exceptions. The premise revolves around the 4 nucleotides of DNA which come in triplets. The first nucleotide represents the place of articulation of the consonant, the second represents the manner of articulation of the consonant, and the third shows the vowel. This means every word is one CV syllable that is written with 3 letters.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k | g | ||||
| Fricative | f | s | [ʃ]1 | [ʒ]2 | ç | x | ||||||
| Affricate | [t͡ʃ]3 | [d͡ʒ]4 | ||||||||||
- allophone of /ç/
- allophone of /ç/
- allophone of /c/
- allophone of /ɟ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | [o]1 | ||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]2 | |||||
| Open | [a]3 | [ä]4 | ɑ | |||
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /ɑ/
- allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Gicu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 GicuOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa a /ɑ/ | Bb be /b/ | Dd de /d/ | DJ dj dje /ɟ/ | Ee e /e/ | Ff fe /f/ | Gg ge /g/ | Ii i /i/ | Kk ke /k/ | Mm me /m/ |
| Nn ne /n/ | NG ng nge /ŋ/ | NJ nj nj /ɲ/ | Pp pe /p/ | Ss se /s/ | SJ sj sj /ç/ | Tt te /t/ | TJ tj tje /c/ | Uu u /u/ | Xx xe /x/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
