Pakkia [PHKHY]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Pakkia
The root of all Pakkia-branch languages, the Gamjeu-Pakkai is the liturgical language of many, and is known, at least in part, by all speakers within the family. Developed originally for marking land-ownership and for recounting history, the language has expanded to more day-to-day interactions but is nearly dead.
Language family relationships
[view] About PakkysThe Pakkys language family is spoken across the warm floodplains of Mhylt. The languages are mostly unintelligible from one other, expect maybe for Pakkia, but most speaker of Ng'risu would struggle to understand what a native Pakkia speaker's going ...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m̥ | m | n̥ | n | ɲ̊ | ɲ | ŋ̊ | ŋ | ||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | t tʰ | d | k kʰ | g | q qʰ | ||||||
| Fricative | s | z | χ | h | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||
| Blends | nj | ts | mj |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | [ɨ]1 | [ɯ]2 | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | [ɪ̈]3 | ||||||
| Close-mid | e | [ɘ]4 | [ɤ]5 | o | ||||
| Open | a | [ɑ]6 | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | ae | [ɯɑ]7 | [ɑɪ̈]8 | [ɑɯ]9 | oa | [ɑɤ]10 | au | ao | aɪ | [ɘɯ]11 |
| [ɤɑ]12 | [ɪ̈ɑ]13 | ua | [ɑɘ]14 | eu | ɪa |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /ɪ/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /ua/
- allophone of /aɪ/
- allophone of /au/
- allophone of /ao/
- allophone of /eu/
- allophone of /oa/
- allophone of /ɪa/
- allophone of /ae/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Pakkia. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 PakkiaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a a /a/ | ae ae /ae/ | ai ai /aɪ/ | ao ao /ao/ | au au /au/ | d d /d/ | e e /e/ | eu eu /eu/ | g g /g/ | h h /h/ |
| i i /ɪ/ | ia ia /ɪa/ | j j /j/ | k k /k/ | kh kh /kʰ/ | l l /l/ | m m /m/ | mh mh /m̥/ | mj mj /mj/ | n n /n/ |
| ng ng /ŋ/ | ngh ngh /ŋ̊/ | nh nh /n̥/ | nj nj /nj/, /ɲ/, /ɲ/ | njh njh /ɲ̊/ | o o /o/ | oa oa /oa/ | p p /p/ | ph ph /pʰ/ | q q /q/ |
| qh qh /qʰ/ | s s /s/ | t t /t/ | th th /tʰ/ | ts ts /ts/ | u u /u/ | ua ua /ua/ | x x /χ/ | y y /i/ | z z /z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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