Hamateki [TUE]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Hamateki
A language spoken by an entire civilization that loves birds. Some of its various features include:
VSO word order, heavily head-initial Voiceless/voiced allophonic disctinction 10 nominal cases Verb tense conjugation Split ergative alignment
Octal counting system
- Nominative/accusative or ergative/absolutive determined by verb class
Sample of Hamateki[view] mametyi lepa hamateka ni mahidorosu / AF AKADYLYITEMAM APEL AS EUPIRAM
Why are you reading this? You don't know what it says.[view all texts]
Why are you reading this? You don't know what it says.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | ñ1 | ŋ | ||||||||
Plosive | p | [b]2 | t̪ | [d̪]3 | t | [d]4 | k˞ | [g˞]5 | ||||
Fricative | ɸ | [β]6 | θ | [ð]7 | s | [z]8 | x | [ɣ]9 | h | |||
Affricate | t͡s | [d͡z]10 | ||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||
Trill | r |
- Nasalizes adjacent vowels
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t̪/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /k˞/
- allophone of /ɸ/
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /t͡s/
Vowels | Front | |
Close | i | y |
Close-mid | e | ø |
Open | a | ɶ |
Polyphthongs | eø | iy | aɶ | øe | ɶa | yi |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Hamateki. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
HamatekiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
a a a /a/ | c c cot /x/, [ɣ] | d d dac /t͡s/ | e e e /e/ | f f fin /ɸ/, [β] | g g gok /ŋ/ | h h him /h/ | i i i /i/ | j j jañ /ʎ/ | k k kof /k˞/, [g˞] | l l len /l/ |
m m mip /m/ | n n neq /n̪/ | ñ ñ ñas /ñ/1 | o o o /ɶ/ | p p piq /p/, [b] | q q qek /θ/, [ð] | r r rog /r/ | s s sap /s/, [z] | t t tes /t̪/, [d̪] | u u u /ø/ | y y y /y/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- Nasalizes adjacent vowels
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