Nakse [NSE]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nakse
who needs approximants
Language family relationships
[view] About ZeiThis is yet another language family spoken in my conworld Astanu, specifically around the equator on the continent Zarul.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||
| Plosive | pʼ1 pʰ | b | tʼ tʰ | d | kʼ kʰ | g | ||||||
| Fricative | fʼ2 fʰ | v | sʼ sʰ | z | ʃʼ ʃʰ | ʒ | xʼ xʰ | ɣ | ||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃʼ t͡ʃʰ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | (l)3 | |||||||||||
- often merged with /p/
- often merged with /f/
- often merged with /n/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
| Near-open | [ɐ]3 | |||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ou̯ | ai̯ | ei̯ | au̯ |
- unstressed allophone of /ɛ i/
- unstressed allophone of /ɔ u/
- unstressed allophone of /a/
Syllable StructureCV(C)
In the coda, ejectives are not allowed, and aspirated consonants lose their aspiration.
In the coda, ejectives are not allowed, and aspirated consonants lose their aspiration.
Stress informationStress is lexical, but usually on the last syllable in native words and the first syllable in older loanwords. Modern loanwords vary more due to the differences between loaning languages. However, all loanwords retain the stress of the original word.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nakse. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NakseOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa[ɐ]1 | AA aa/a/ | AI ai/ai̯/ | AU au/au̯/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡ʃʰ/ | C' c'/t͡ʃʼ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɪ/2 | EE ee/ɛ/ | EI ei/ei̯/ |
| Ff/fʰ/ | F' f'/fʼ/3 | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɣ/ | Ii[ɪ]4 | II ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/kʰ/ | K' k'/kʼ/ | KH kh/xʰ/ | KH' kh'/xʼ/ |
| Ll/l/5 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Oo[ʊ]6 | OO oo/ɔ/ | OU ou/ou̯/ | Pp/pʰ/ | P' p'/pʼ/7 | Ss/sʰ/ |
| S' s'/sʼ/ | SH sh/ʃʰ/ | SH' sh'/ʃʼ/ | Tt/tʰ/ | T' t'/tʼ/ | Uu[ʊ]8 | UU uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- unstressed allophone of /a/
- unstressed allophone of /ɛ i/
- often merged with /f/
- unstressed allophone of /ɛ i/
- often merged with /n/, loan words only
- unstressed allophone of /ɔ u/
- often merged with /p/
- unstressed allophone of /ɔ u/
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