Kerkkian [KERK]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersKerkkian is spoken by a population of 480,500 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kerkkian
ovi ʈoqe!
/oǀɪ̈ ʈʼo̞qɐ/
Welcome!
Kerkkian is the language spoken in the far mountains of the Arkkean Republic, developing from the mixture of languages that arose as nomads crossed the numerous valleys and interacted with the different tribes along the mountain caves and peaks.
With a very simple grammar and syntactic arrangement, Kerkkian has:
/oǀɪ̈ ʈʼo̞qɐ/
Welcome!
Kerkkian is the language spoken in the far mountains of the Arkkean Republic, developing from the mixture of languages that arose as nomads crossed the numerous valleys and interacted with the different tribes along the mountain caves and peaks.
With a very simple grammar and syntactic arrangement, Kerkkian has:
- an OVS structure
- five genders / three animacy types
- six verb types
- singular, dual and plural pronoun/noun numbers
- a tick!
- a senary counting system
- an abugida conscript in the making
Sample of Kerkkian[view] ve vig ʈeʈeqa ʈeggat igeda ed lid toeta re
There are shapes on the ground but she doesn’t understand them.[view all texts]
There are shapes on the ground but she doesn’t understand them.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Velar | Uvular | ||||||||
| Plosive | pʼ | tʼ | ʈʼ | ȶ | k [kʰ]1 | g [gʰ]2 | q | ɢ | ||||||||
| Fricative | ʃ | χ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Click | ǀ | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | cl | ɟl |
- When doubled, allophone of /k/
- When doubled, allophone of /g/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Near-close | ɪ̈ | |||||
| Close-mid | [ɘ]1 | [o]2 | ||||
| Mid | o̞ | |||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]3 | [ɜ]4 | ||||
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | ||||
- When at the beginning of a word, allophone of /ɪ̈/
- When at the beginning of a word, allophone of /o̞/
- When at the beginning of a word, allophone of /æ/
- When at the beginning of a word, allophone of /ɐ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kerkkian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KerkkianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a a /æ/ | d de /ȶ/ | e e /ɐ/ | f efei /ɟl/ | g gi /g/ | h uhi /ɢ/ | i i /ɪ̈/ | k ki /k/ | l la /l/ | o o /o̞/ |
| p pa /pʼ/ | q uqi /q/ | r re /r/ | s sa /ʃ/ | t te /tʼ/ | v va /ǀ/ | x xa /χ/ | y ya /cl/ | ʈ ʈe /ʈʼ/ | ɹ eɹi /ɹ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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