Naxkheic [NXK]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Naxkheic
Naxkheic is an agglutinative language spoken primarily in the Naxkh river valley by the Naxkhe people. The Naxkhian civilization originates as an agrarian river civilization known for isolationism and rock-cut architecture, and sun/moon worship, however has later evolved somewhat away from that. Their languages uses a yet-to-be-created conscript.
- Suffixes indicate grammatical information and using root words as suffixes creates compounds.
- Conjunctions and evidentiality particles are isolated.
- Pronouns are not gender-specific unless marked with gender affixes, and with sets of pronouns for first, second, third and fourth person, singular, paucal and plural, and animate and inanimate.
- SOV word order.
- Phonetic inventory is average-sized, and has no vowel-length distinctions, with lots of consonant clusters.
- A priori with primarily influences being Nahuatl, Georgian and various Turkic languages.
- Suffixes indicate grammatical information and using root words as suffixes creates compounds.
- Conjunctions and evidentiality particles are isolated.
- Pronouns are not gender-specific unless marked with gender affixes, and with sets of pronouns for first, second, third and fourth person, singular, paucal and plural, and animate and inanimate.
- SOV word order.
- Phonetic inventory is average-sized, and has no vowel-length distinctions, with lots of consonant clusters.
- A priori with primarily influences being Nahuatl, Georgian and various Turkic languages.
Sample of Naxkheic[view] Tsozolxopce he khelotxut lac musepekhzi tenatnots osut.
An eeriness surrounded me when his tongue began to speak.[view all texts]
An eeriness surrounded me when his tongue began to speak.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
Plosive | p | t̪̥ | k | |||||||||||
Fricative | s | z | ʃ | x | h | |||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||
Lateral approximant | ʟ | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | u | ||
Close-mid | e | o | ||
Open | a |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Naxkheic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
NaxkheicOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/a/ | Cc/k/ | Ee/e/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | KH kh/x/ | Ll/ʟ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ |
Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t̪̥/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | TX tx/t͡ʃ/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |